A student of mine, thrilled to be graduating this December, recently wrote to me about the challenges he had faced earlier in school. Diagnosed with a learning disability in math, he’d been told by a ...

Sixty years ago, when Congress passed the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, it made a bipartisan promise to the American people: that college opportunity should not be reserved for the wealthy, but ...

After months of delay, the U.S. Department of Education came out with its eligibility application for certain grant programs serving low-resourced institutions under the Higher Education Act on Monday ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (the “Act”), which recently became law, makes significant changes to federal financial aid programs administered under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ...

Section 1. Purpose. A group of higher education accreditors are the gatekeepers that decide which colleges and universities American students can spend the more than $100 billion in Federal student ...

Something is broken in American higher education, and this year Washington may finally do something about it. This week, congressional leaders announced their 2026 policy priorities, and for the first ...