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Inside Higher Ed
College Groups: Hold Off on Debt Cancellation
Associations representing the nation’s colleges and universities told congressional leaders on Monday they should put off considering canceling student debt until later. Instead, the American Council on Education, and other associations representing four-year institutions as well as community colleges, in a letter said Congress should focus right now on providing short-term help for borrowers as…
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Inside Higher Ed
The Higher Education Act and the Pandemic
It feels like a long time ago. But before the pandemic created a public health crisis, shuttered businesses and raised questions about how and when Congress will be able to meet again, Republicans and Democrats on the Senate’s education committee were “dang close” to reaching an agreement to update the nation’s main higher education law…
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Inside Higher Ed
College Credit in the Time of Coronavirus
Six major higher education groups issued a set of principles Thursday for accepting academic credit during this tumultuous time. The statement, drafted by the American Council on Education and signed by the leaders of groups representing public, private nonprofit and community colleges, highlights eight practices institutions should follow to best help students navigate the transfer…
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The News Gazette
Public state universities seeking more funds in next relief bill
The coronavirus pandemic has already cost public universities in Illinois about $224 million, nearly $100 million more than they expect to receive from Congress’ $2.2 trillion relief package. In a letter, the presidents of the state’s public universities urged the state’s U.S. senators and representatives to include more higher-education funding in its next relief package.
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Times Higher Education
US colleges feel overlooked in nation’s huge economic bailout
US colleges scored just $14 billion (£11 billion) from a multitrillion-dollar economic rescue measure approved by Congress − and quickly warned of dire budgetary pressures and a possible easing in their opposition to reopening. The $2.2 trillion bill, meant primarily to boost unemployment benefits, hard-hit industries and healthcare providers nationwide, offers more than $6 billion…
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Chemical Engineering News
US stimulus bill includes funding for coronavirus research
A $2 trillion stimulus package to address the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the largest stimulus bill in US history, has passed through the US Congress. President Donald J. Trump is expected to sign it. The greatest proportion of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is economic support for individuals and…
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Inside Higher Ed
Empty Benches at Empty Lab Tables
Empty classrooms are a defining feature of the coronavirus crisis on college campuses. Empty research labs are another. Many major research universities have halted all but essential research in what amounts to an unprecedented stoppage of academic science in modern memory. Among the universities that have shut down all nonessential research operations are Harvard, Johns…
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Education Dive
Senate coronavirus stimulus package falls short, higher ed leaders say
The U.S. Senate passed a $2.2 trillion stimulus package late Wednesday meant to blunt the economic fallout from the coronavirus, but higher education leaders say the roughly $14 billion it gives the sector falls far short of what is needed to support institutions. Of the money earmarked for higher ed, more than $1 billion is…
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Diverse Education
Higher Ed Groups: $14 Billion for Colleges, Universities in Stimulus Package Insufficient
Higher education groups aren’t happy with the $14 billion earmarked for colleges and universities in the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed by the Senate late on Wednesday, saying institutions are facing severe cash flow problems and have been hit hard financially due to closures necessitated by the pandemic.
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Inside Higher Ed
Left Out of the Stimulus
Although help for student borrowers in Congress’s massive economic stimulus package has been widely publicized, including a six-month reprieve from making loan payments, more than a million people with loans may be surprised to learn they will not get any relief under the new measure. Borrowers with Perkins and commercially held Federal Family Education Loans…
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