Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), a longtime champion of reforming higher education student tax benefits, has introduced HR 3000, bipartisan legislation to make Pell grants non-taxable and help community college students better access the American Opportunity…
Editor’s note: This new weekly update from the government relations office at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) provides the latest on what’s happening in Washington and how AACC is advancing policies to support…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) will soon begin accepting requests from colleges who need an extra year to spend remaining allotted funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) provided during the Covid pandemic….
In teaching online and hybrid classes for nearly a dozen years, Blinn College English professor Becky Almany spotted a curious trend. It wasn’t the content that often tripped up students in her courses. It was…
Bipartisan groups of policymakers in the House and Senate have announced the bipartisan reintroduction of the College Transparency Act (CTA), legislation that the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has long supported. Sen. Bill Cassidy…
Senate panel passes Su nomination for labor secretary Construction advocates cite CTE defunding House Democrats re-introduce apprenticeship bill Senate panel passes Su nomination for labor secretary The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on…
A dozen student teams from community colleges will participate in the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC), an annual national competition that asks two-year college student teams to develop STEM-based solutions to…
Responding to the U.S. Education Department’s (ED) solicitation for input on upcoming negotiated-rulemaking sessions, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has presented both live and written comments on the topics ED has identified. The…
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday held a nomination hearing for Julie Su, who is President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as the next secretary of the U.S….
Dual-enrollment bill reintroduced in Senate Raising funds to expand Unmudl NEH grants to expand humanities Dual-enrollment bill reintroduced in Senate A bipartisan team of senators last week reintroduced legislation to expand the use of federal…