A look at proposed federal budget cuts in higher education
INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Trump on Monday called for a $5.6 billion, or 7.8 percent, cut in Department of Education funding and reductions for most core funders of academic research, but also proposed a nearly $900 million increase in career and technical education funding that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called “perhaps the largest increase in CTE…
Read More about A look at proposed federal budget cuts in higher educationWhite House budget proposal eliminates student loan forgiveness program
CNBC — As student debt continues to climb, President Donald Trump released a budget for 2021 on Monday that would slash many of the programs aimed at helping borrowers. Student loan spending would be cut by $170 billion in Trump’s plan, titled “A Budget for America’s Future.” The cuts include “sensible annual and lifetime loan limits” for graduate…
Read More about White House budget proposal eliminates student loan forgiveness programPilot program in California provides student loan relief for public service while in college
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Eight universities in California are embarking on an experiment to help students pay for college through public service. The Civic Action Fellowship, announced Monday, will award students up to $10,000 to put toward their college costs in exchange for one semester working with a local nonprofit or government office.
Read More about Pilot program in California provides student loan relief for public service while in collegeReturn of federal earmarks could increase lobbying by universities
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Many smaller and midsize institutions, like Bucknell, have decided to not spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on D.C. lobbyists if they can no longer get a line inserted in the budget for new equipment or a building. However, some larger research institutions, including the University of California system, have ramped up spending…
Read More about Return of federal earmarks could increase lobbying by universitiesCoronavirus could impact international student enrollment
INSIDE HIGHER ED — U.S. colleges could see a major enrollment pipeline cut off this fall if the coronavirus epidemic persists. Meanwhile, Australian universities are missing more than half their Chinese students weeks before their fall semester begins.
Read More about Coronavirus could impact international student enrollmentABA and SoFi host student loan relief scholarship contest
ABA JOURNAL — The ABA’s Young Lawyers Division announced in a Twitter post Sunday that the ABA and SoFi, an online personal finance company, are accepting applications for their new Student Loan Relief Scholarship Contest. Entrants must answer the question, “How would an ABA/SoFi Student Loan Relief Scholarship impact your world?” in 500 words or less…
Read More about ABA and SoFi host student loan relief scholarship contestDepartment of Education provides student loan relief for some disabled U.S. military veterans
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The federal government plans to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding loan debt for roughly 25,000 disabled veterans in July. The question of how far the Trump administration should go to forgive the debt of those who are too disabled to work comes after the department has tried to address why…
Read More about Department of Education provides student loan relief for some disabled U.S. military veteransU.S. Department of Education plans to simplify application process for Public Service Loan Forgiveness
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The federal government plans to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars in outstanding loan debt for roughly 25,000 disabled veterans in July. But while consumer and veterans’ groups are applauding the move by the U.S. Department of Education, they also don’t think it goes far enough. They want the department to discharge the student…
Read More about U.S. Department of Education plans to simplify application process for Public Service Loan ForgivenessReport: Slower growth in donations to colleges and universities
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The latest report on voluntary giving to higher education, from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, or CASE, found that donations in the 2019 fiscal year reached $49.6 billion, an all-time high since the numbers have been reported. The total is up 6.1 percent from $46.7 billion in 2018. Donations grew by 7.2 percent between 2017 and 2018.…
Read More about Report: Slower growth in donations to colleges and universitiesNew book examines the factors behind closing colleges
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The appendix of a new book contains everything needed to calculate a score gauging the market stress faced by individual colleges and universities across the country. But the authors of the book, The College Stress Test (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), intentionally didn’t include a list of institutions and their market stress scores. Instead, they…
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