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Proposed Legislation Would Create Program to Support Students’ Basic Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Torres (D-Calif), reintroduce the Basic Assistance for Students in College (BASIC) Act on Wednesday, a bicameral legislation to help ensure college students can meet their basic needs while pursuing their education.

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Australia’s NUHEPs: shonks and crooks – or an invaluable cradle of innovation?

The PIE News

This discourse has been dominated by perspectives of the “winners and losers” across the public universities – where proposed caps maintain 2023 volumes of around 145,000 new international enrolments but seek to re-allocate these across the 38 university providers. These institutions pre-date the creation of the world-leading ESOS Act.

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Beechside views: swings and roundabouts

The PIE News

Tracking higher education policy in the UK has never been a simple undertaking. While some policy changes apply to universities across the country, the devolved nature of education means that most announcements made by the Department for Education tend only to apply to institutions in England.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

This is in keeping with the university’s dedication to educational equity and lowers the costs to the students. Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). 5 (2021): 658-674. . Lee, Michelle.

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Wealth-Based Pell Grant Could Reduce Student Debt and Racial Wealth Inequality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That's the findings from a new report , released by researchers at the Higher Education, Race, and the Economy (HERE) Lab at the University of California, Merced, in cooperation with The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). Michele Shepard Zampini, senior director of college affordability at TICAS.

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Fostering Upward Mobility through Low-Cost Certification: A Practical Guide for Higher Education

Faculty Focus

This is in keeping with the university’s dedication to educational equity and lowers the costs to the students. Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). 5 (2021): 658-674. . Lee, Michelle.

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California Community Colleges await a new chancellor

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.