Faced with increasing financial aid fraud, the board of California’s community colleges is considering ways to charge students an application fee and tighten its identity verification process. Students are pushing back.
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Posted inNorth Carolina
NC budget proposal could cut crucial funding for state’s Historically Minority-Serving Institutions
The North Carolina Senate’s proposal for the upcoming biennial state budget includes more than $180 million in cuts to the state’s public universities. The reductions could impact several higher education initiatives, ranging from tuition and academic centers to scholarship programs.
Posted inOhio
‘Uncertainty and confusion’: What Ohio borrowers report feeling about student loan changes
College Now Greater Cleveland is reporting an increase in the number of adults seeking guidance on loan debt. Signal wants to hear from borrowers.
Posted inOhio
Ohio House budget could force private colleges to follow rules similar to those in anti-DEI education bill
Statehouse leaders want to change a scholarship program that would require private schools to enact new rules or lose out on state money.
Posted inNorth Carolina
North Carolina’s public universities haven’t raised tuition in nearly a decade. What’s that doing to their bottom line?
Since 2017, the UNC Board of Governors has prohibited public universities from raising tuition for in-state undergraduate students.
Posted inEl Paso
More than 100 UTEP students file reports with FBI on loan scam
Alejandra Velez is among the many University of Texas at El Paso students who somehow did not receive their federal loans since August. UTEP claims that the students were victims of phishing schemes that redirected their funds into scammers’ accounts, but some students blame the institution’s lax security. Velez, 42, is in her second semester […]
Posted inChicago
Illinois weighs opening state financial aid to students in prison
Legislation reintroduced in the Illinois General Assembly this session could expand access to prison education by restoring state financial aid for incarcerated students.
Posted inPuerto Rico
Hungry, homeless, and penniless UPR students in Río Piedras
A new campus study found that 62% of students are surviving on $500 a month while food and transportation costs are rising and affordable housing is scarce around the University.
Posted inFort Worth
UTA creates task force in response to wide-ranging executive orders from Trump, Abbott
Following a slew of federal and state executive orders affecting higher education, the University of Texas at Arlington has set up a task force to monitor and respond to their impact.
Posted inColorado
Why Colorado Mesa University’s president decided to stand alone when it comes to higher ed funding
Colorado higher education leaders have made it a tradition to sign a letter stating how much more money they need beyond the governor’s November request, including this year. The unified financial requests have led to far more money for all colleges and universities in recent years.