The White House will allow undocumented college students access to emergency pandemic aid.
Undocumented students, including tens of thousands of so-called Dreamers, would be eligible for the emergency aid under a coming Biden administration regulation.Credit.Jim Watson/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
May 11, 2021
The Biden administration said early Tuesday that it would issue a regulation allowing undocumented students access to some of the $36 billion in emergency stimulus aid flowing to colleges, a split from a Trump-era decision to bar those students even among the federally protected ones known as Dreamers from accessing earlier rounds of funding.
“The pandemic didn’t discriminate on students,” Miguel Cardona, the education secretary, told reporters during a phone call on Monday that previewed the administration’s plans. “We know that the final rule will include all students, and we want to make sure that all students have an opportunity to have access to fu
Undocumented college students can access pandemic aid, Biden administration says, reversing Trump rule By Camilo Montoya-Galvez Drop in undergrad enrollment at U.S. colleges
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday it will allow undocumented college students, including so-called Dreamers, to access federal coronavirus relief aid, reversing Trump-era guidance that rendered them ineligible for the assistance allocated by Congress.
New rules by the Department of Education allow undocumented immigrant students, including those protected from deportation by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, to request the aid, as long as they have been enrolled at a U.S. college or university since March 13, 2020, when the U.S. declared a national emergency over the coronavirus.
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CANTON Students who will be enrolled at Spoon River College in a minimum of six credit hours for Fall 2021 may be eligible for at least $500 in emergency funds through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund II (HEERF II), authorized by the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA).
To receive funds, students must be enrolled in at last six credit hours for Fall 2021 by August 23. They must also be a U.S. citizen, a permanent resident, or an eligible non-citizen, complete and have on file at SRC the 2021-2022 Free Application for Federal Aid (FAFSA), and complete the College HEERF II application.
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Roughly a million students attend college around the Ohio Valley, and the student-age population has an especially high rate of coronavirus infection. That’s why some public health advocates say schools should require that students be vaccinated.
However, a review by the Ohio Valley ReSource found that of 400 colleges and universities in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, only three have indicated that they will mandate COVID-19 vaccinations this fall.
The age group with the highest share of COVID-19 infections is under 30. About a fifth of all U.S. cases have occurred in people ages 18 to 29. In late April the American College Health Association, an organization that works to improve the health of college students and college campuses, recommended that schools make COVID-19 immunization mandatory for students.
University Of Hawaii Officials Push Back Against Proposed Budget Cuts - Honolulu Civil Beat
University Of Hawaii Officials Push Back Against Proposed Budget Cuts
The system could still see about $90 million in federal relief funds, half of which must be distributed as grants to students. Reading time: 5 minutes.
Though the University of Hawaii is expected to get an influx of federal relief funds this year, officials still have concerns that cuts proposed by the Legislature could hurt higher education programs.
Lawmakers have proposed 10% cuts for UH in a state budget that also sees Hawaii government as a whole taking general fund reductions of about 7%. Many program cuts have been supplanted by federal relief funds thanks to the American Rescue Plan Act. UH is expected to get relief funds sent directly to each of the 10 campuses that comprise the state higher education system.