The U.S. Education Department (ED) has issued yet further guidance addressing the formula grants under the CARES Act. However, this guidance is mostly good news for community colleges, particularly in how they may spend funds…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) will likely soon publish an “interim final rule” (IFR) on CARES Act student emergency grant eligibility and related issues. (ED had announced that it would publish the rule on June…
For many years, the high cost of textbooks has negatively affected college students. For example, in a recent survey of students at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, roughly 20 percent of students said they regularly…
As of May 28, 36.5 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, a number far worse than the 2.7 million claims most economists were expecting and predicting. The U.S. Department of Labor reported a loss of…
Covid-19 has disrupted many of our lives, especially high school seniors who were excited to graduate and begin a new chapter at a university in the fall. Much of the four-year experience is about exploring…
“*” will soon appear on many statistics. For the sports fan looking at stats, the NHL and NBA seasons ended early, making season stats incomparable with prior seasons, not to mention that neither league may…
It is an American higher education original that delivers so much to so many for so little, and yet its full impact is often underappreciated. It is a lack of awareness that could be potentially…
The Education Department (ED) again has added and altered the information it has provided to higher edcuation institutions about implementing CARES Act student emergency grants. The May 21 communication came as a shock and has…
During these unprecedented times, families with college-age children face difficult decisions about what to do for the fall semester. In an April Art & Science Group poll of graduating high school seniors, more than half…
Monitoring “key performance indicators” (KPI) — such as students passing math and English their first term, earning at least six credits in that first term and 24 credits over the first year, and continuing to…