Automatically deducting student loan payments from borrowers’ paychecks—and even tying the repayment amount to income, similar to Social Security withholdings — were among the ideas that seemed to interest Senators Thursday at a hearing to…
Like many of you, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) awaits word of a vote on a temporary appropriations bill — also known as a continuing resolution (CR) — to keep the federal government…
Wisconsin will spend $20 million on a job training program with colleges and universities designed to prepare people for electronics manufacturing jobs and to address long-term workforce development needs. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the…
California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to launch the state’s first fully online public community college that would provide short-term programs to help 2.5 million young adults without college credentials attain skills for available jobs in…
A federal judge on Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be…
Community college officials should be acutely aware of a proposal in the House bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (H.R. 4508, the “PROSPER” Act) that would require colleges to return substantial portions of federal…
State lawmakers, not Tennessee’s public colleges and universities, must decide whether to offer in-state tuition breaks for students whose parents brought or kept them in the country illegally, according to an opinion by the state…
The tax bill passed by Congress on December 20 could further depress community college budgets at a time when other revenue sources are declining. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
Students who were defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges may not get their loans forgiven entirely, the U.S. Education Department announced Wednesday, in a reversal of the Obama administration policy of wiping out the debt….
The federal Department of Education is refusing to process debt relief claims from tens of thousands of students who had federal loans to attend Corinthian Colleges, California’s attorney general has claimed in the latest lawsuit…