The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has filed comments to the U.S. Education Department (ED) on behalf of the community college sector pertaining to a July 24 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on distance…
Senate appropriators on Thursday passed a bill for fiscal year 2025 (FY) that would increase funding for the U.S. Education Department (ED) by slightly more than 1% — a sharp contrast to the 14% cut…
As of today, new final regulations on Title IX promulgated by the Biden administration take effect — but only in some places. This confusing situation has been created by a series of lawsuits that collectively…
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday released a partisan fiscal year (FY) 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS-ED) appropriations bill that, as expected, would make deep cuts to many education and job…
Just as community college officials were scrambling to fully comply with a new U.S. Education Department (ED) rule limiting the length of certain gainful employment (GE) programs for the purposes of student aid, a Texas…
The American Association of Community Colleges has advocated in the current Congress to ensure that community college nursing programs begin to receive some of their fair share from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its latest cost projections for the Pell Grant program, and the news was surprisingly better than anticipated. Most observers had predicted that the Pell program would exhaust…
There is an outside chance that the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act (H.R, 6585), which was pulled from scheduled House floor action six weeks ago, may receive a floor vote as an amendment untitled amendment to…
Community college officials spending this summer preparing to implement a litany of new federal regulations have another to add to their to-do list. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) final rule defining accessible web and…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) last week issued its formal, 10-year cost estimate on the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA). H.R. 6951, which would make major changes to the Higher Education Act (HEA), was approved…