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New California Bill Would Allow Transgender and Nonbinary College Students to Use Preferred Names on Diplomas

Under the newly introduced AB 245 bill, led by California Assemblyman David Chiu, nonbinary and transgender public college students would be allowed to put their preferred names on diplomas instead of their birth names, according to SFGATE. This is an extension of Chiu’s previous bill, AB 711, which mandated K-12 school districts update former students’ […]

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Mount Holyoke College Receives $10M Donation to Support Scholarships

Mount Holyoke College recently received a $10 million donation to support scholarships and other financial aid opportunities for students, according to MassLive. The donation, made by alumna Liz Cochary Gross and her husband, Philip Gross, was given as part of the college’s “Meet the Moment Scholarship Challenge.” In response to their contribution, the largest in […]

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Report Highlights COVID-19 Impact on College Students’ Mental Health

A new report analyzed how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of college students. “Constant Stress Has Become the New Normal: Stress and Anxiety Inequalities Among U.S. College Students in the Time of COVID-19,” found that one-third of college students reported emotional distress brought on by the pandemic, according to the research.

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U.S. Department of Education Updates College Scorecard

In the interest of transparency, the U.S. Department of Education is updating College Scorecard to have it provide prospective students with “information on how well borrowers from individual colleges and universities are progressing in repaying their federal student loans, as well as how overall borrower cohorts are faring at certain intervals in the repayment process,” […]

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TMCF Receives $5 Million to Fund Need-Based HBCU Scholarship Program

Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has received $5 million from philanthropist Stephen Feinberg’s charitable foundation to fund a scholarship program for students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black institutions (PBIs). The Stephen Feinberg Scholarship Program will give need-based scholarships to students at these institutions who are facing financial hardships. Feinberg is […]

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Doubling the Pell Grant to Promote Access to Opportunity, Higher Ed

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ victory signals a crucial moment for enhanced access to higher education that could, given their commitment to “Doubling the Pell Grant,” promote a success model as well. One of the points to be emphasized is that the goal of college access has force and plausibility as an aim of social policy only insofar as colleges and universities function as effective means for delivering what they promise to deliver. And, while education has a number of legitimate goals, among the most central are promoting cognitive and socio-emotional development, allowing students to attain general knowledge and skills, and helping students become desirable from the perspective of employers. For the latter, they must graduate. What follows from these considerations, then, is that whatever form access strategies assume, college campuses need to adopt corresponding strategies that meet the needs of the students they choose to enroll.

Winston-Salem State University Raises Almost $3.4 Million for Need-Based Scholarships

Winston-Salem State University has raised nearly $3.4 million for student scholarships, surpassing the $2 million goal of its Million Dollar Match funding campaign, according to university officials. Winston-Salem couple Anna Reilly and Matt Cullinan agreed to match donations for need-based student scholarships between February 2019 and April 2020. They ultimately matched $1.7 million. “We were […]

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Virtual Panel Urges Student Debt Cancellation, Calling it a Racial Justice Issue Too

Cancelling student debt isn’t just an economic issue but a racial justice one too, argued higher education leaders and policy makers in a Thursday virtual panel hosted by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the NAACP.

Focusing on First-Generation Students in College Admissions

To my fellow selective college admissions deans, I am asking for a mindset shift. We must stop being receivers of applications. We started in this work as admissions counselors, taught to counsel students to find the right path. Somewhere along the way to our seats at the top, we got complacent. We got comfortable. It didn’t happen overnight, but it happened. We stopped counseling and started receiving.

Department of Education Extends Student Loan Suspensions Through End of January 2021

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that federal student loan repayment forbearance, including suspension of interest accrual and collections activity has been extended through January 31, 2021. DeVos made the announcement on Friday. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, borrowers haven’t had to make payment since March. But the relief was slated to expire on […]

New Initiative Looks to Reduce Student Debt at Select HBCUs

The Student Freedom Initiative has announced a partnership with nine Historically Black Colleges and Universities that will provide an alternative to high-cost college loans in an effort to help students navigate their way through the college.

Earlham College Announces Scholarship for Local Students

Under Earlham College’s recently-established Heartland Region Scholarship, all accepted fall 2021 students who live within 150 miles of campus are eligible to receive $8,000 in funding over four years. This includes students living in eastern Ohio, Indiana, southern Michigan, northern Kentucky and the Chicago area, according to the college. Incoming students may also be eligible […]

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