Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2025

With the nation’s student loan debt exceeding $1.7 His chapter on Senator Claiborne Pell, architect of the Pell Grant, is particularly illuminating. Watson’s treatment of the crisis as a civil rights issue is both compelling and necessary.

Higher education

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

Only 17% of veteran students earned a bachelors degree by 2017, compared to 37% of nonveterans. Among students who entered college in 2011, six years later, only 19% of first-generation students earned a bachelor’s degree, compared to 47% whose parents completed a degree.

First generation

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 31, 2019

For example, financial aid offers, provided to students once admitted to a school, help students determine attendance costs, gift aid, work-study, and/or student loans available to cover those costs. In the same report, TICAS found that only 10 of 150 letters [1] met all three criteria.

Financial aid

IEFA

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you want to study abroad without breaking the bank, do some research on grants and scholarships. Every year, universities, charities, foundations, and government organizations assist thousands of international students with tuition and living expenses. Unlike student loans, you will never have to repay these sums of money.

International student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

billion on the table last year in the form of unclaimed Pell Grant funds—around 14% of annual Pell expenditures. That unclaimed money leads directly to fewer students attending and completing college. The non-profit then multiplied this number by the average Pell Grant award of $4,686 to get the nearly $3.6 billion total.

FAFSA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Craig Lindwarm, vice president for governmental affairs of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities A leading contender for the chairmanship is U.S. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina representative who previously served as chairwoman of the committee from 2017-2019 and was most recently the ranking member.

Financial aid

COE

MAY 8, 2023

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) The proposed legislation aims to implement sensible changes that would simplify the process for educational institutions to reach out to students who would benefit from the programs. Furthermore, it aims to prevent a similar situation in 2017 when the U.S. Increasing McNair stipends to $5,000.

First generation