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HE leaders hail Biden plan to boost access and retention United States President Joe Biden has proposed to Congress a US$109 billion plan to provide two free years of community college education to all Americans, “so that every student has the ability to obtain a degree or certificate”. In addition, he is calling for a substantial hike in the level of Pell Grants for students from economically disadvantaged families to help them seek a certificate or a two- or four-year degree, requiring a ...

In Pittsfield, two school board members abruptly resign Seventh and eighth graders listen to English teacher Chris Davitt (center) during an interdisciplinary humanities block at Pittsfield Middle High School on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff) Elizabeth Frantz Published: 4/29/2021 4:05:56 PM Two of the five members of the Pittsfield School Board have abruptly resigned, blindsiding many in town and creating a rush to fill the spots. School Board Chairman Adam Gauthi...

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream Illustrations by Lyndon Hayes In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of paper, but it came with a price tag of thousands of dollars—dollars that were themselves pieces of paper, transmitted to him in the form of student loans, which he now owed to the federal government. While chewi...

The Daily 202: DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and realityby wpjljron Tuesday, September 5th, 2017.The Daily 202: DACA decision highlights chasm between Trump’s compassionate rhetoric and realityTHE BIG IDEA: By their fruits you will know them. At the Republican National Convention last summer, Donald Trump said he’d “do everything in my power to protect our LGBT citizens.” Then he rescinded protections for trans students in public schools and is...

We open on a gathering of the Scrappers Club, four women around a kitchen table pasting things into scrapbooks. The moment we hear one of them talking, we're not too surprised to learn that her name is Blanche Gunderson. Her sister Marge, the trooper, must have been the ambitious one. Not that Blanche isn't, just that she's relentlessly nice.

Colleges and universities call for doubling of Pell Grant   10 April 2021 The American Council on Education has joined a broad coalition of nearly 1,200 organisations, including almost 900 colleges and universities, calling on Congress to double the maximum Pell Grant. In an open letter to Congress, the coalition members said: “This long overdue investment will drive economic recovery, help address racial and economic inequities in college completion rates and increase overall educational...

Mohamed Sadek for TIME Twyla Joseph in Islip Terrace, N.Y., on Feb. 5, as her day begins The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled. The May and June tests were also canceled as coronavirus cases surged. Joseph never got to take the admissions test. She barely knows her high school teachers now that she takes all her c...

The House on Wednesday sent President Biden a massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which includes an additional $40 billion in aid for the nation’s colleges and universities. Biden in a statement said he will sign the bill Friday. The money for higher education, also passed by the Senate Saturday, would surpass the $14 billion colleges and universities received in

Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Congress is poised to send another $40 billion in aid to the nation’s colleges and universities after the Senate approved a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill Saturday. The House is expected to pass the measure -- which contains the largest infusion of help to higher education approved by Congress during the pandemic -- as soon as Tuesday, sending it to President Biden for his signature. Biden called the Senate’s passage of the bill “historic” and a ...

College of Liberal Arts 04 Mar, 2021 Professor Roze Hentschell was selected for the 2021-22 class of the ACE Fellows Program, the longest-running leadership development program in the United States. Professor Roze Hentschell, a scholar of early modern literature and culture and associate dean for academic programs in the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University, has been selected as one of 52 emerging college and university leaders for the 2021-22 class of the  American Council...