College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

In this post, we focus on Subtitle A, Student Eligibility , Subtitle B, Loan Limits , and Subtitle D, Pell Grants. Title III represents a significant overhaul of the student loan system in a move to improve access, transparency, and accountability in loan programs.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This change is designed to improve accessibility for all students and reduce barriers to financial aid. Elimination of the Expected Family Contribution Perhaps the most significant change for students and families is the replacement of the Expected Family Contribution (EFC) with the Student Aid Index (SAI).

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For students heading to college, there is an immense pressure that comes with managing academic responsibilities and trying to determine how to pay for school. For many, financial aid is crucial to making higher education accessible. Schedule a 15 Minute Power Chat to learn more about finding ways to pay for college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2025

Department of Education, President Trump has, more recently, spoken about his desireto transfer the $1.6 trillionfederal student loan portfoliofrom the U.S. The Federal Student Aid (FSA) office is not just a loan servicer. It plays a central role in ensuring access and accountability in highereducation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

Smith announced during the 2019 commencement ceremony for Morehouse that he would pay off the student loans for the graduating class. Some students and faculty criticized the decision because of Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. One of the most notable is when billionaire tech entrepreneur Robert F. Dr. Ivory A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Department of Education, escalating tensions over what the union describes as an illegal and abrupt shutdown of student loan relief programs that has left millions of borrowers facing higher payments amid economic uncertainty. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.,

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COE

MAY 2, 2025

Hamm President Trumps newly released 2026 budget proposes the complete elimination of the Federal TRIO Programs, which have helped millions of low-income, first-generation students – including veterans, adult learners, and students with disabilities – succeed in higher education for over 60 years.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 11, 2025

These include a sharp rise in government regulations, the need to adopt new technology, and students seeking a more congenial campus lifestyle. It is the generosity of Federal student loan programs with easy terms and low interest that enable students with financial need to pay high tuition costs.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 30, 2025

The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) has released the FAT001 Financial Aid History report, which contains important student information such as grant & loan eligibility, defaults, overpayments, and loan history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Department of Education announced Monday that more than 5 million Americans have been approved for student loan forgiveness under the Biden-Harris Administration, with total debt relief reaching $183.6 billion in borrower defense relief for nearly 85,000 students who were misled by their institutions. Cardona The U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

The 103-page bill, released as part of the GOP's reconciliation legislation, targets several key financial aid programs that disproportionately serve low-income and underrepresented students. Education advocates warn these changes could create new barriers to higher education access and completion.

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IEFA

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In an era when much learning takes place through mobile and computer screens, some wonder why people still ambitiously pursue the chance to further their education overseas. Studying abroad allows students to engage with and learn from people from different cultures and walks of life and expands understanding of the world.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2025

Department of Education has restored online access to income-driven repayment (IDR) plan applications and loan consolidation forms following a temporary suspension, officials announced Wednesday. During the temporary online outage, paper loan consolidation applications remained available to borrowers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2025

McMahon's statement echoed the administration’s long-standing argument that downsizing the Education Department is essential to meeting Trump’s campaign promise of reducing the size of the federal government. However, advocacy groups and education leaders are not backing down.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 13, 2025

Title III of the legislation contains the Committee on Education and Workforce’s proposed changes to the Department of Education’s (ED) student aid programs, including Pell Grants, student loans, and the aid eligibility formula. The bill establishes new annual and aggregate loan limits for borrowers.

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. of college-ready participants enrolled in higher education, and 71% applied. EOC programs report that 60.6%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to pursue all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States.

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COE

JULY 8, 2025

Bipartisan opposition—from Senate TRIO Caucus co-chair Susan Collins (R-ME) and other lawmakers to Colorado education leaders and the Council for Opportunity in Education—underscores TRIO’s demonstrated track record of boosting college access and completion and makes it likely that Congress will reject the proposed cuts.

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COE

JULY 10, 2025

This year’s honorees include: Beverly Black’ s early experience with TRIO Talent Search at Southern University of New Orleans and Student Support Services at the University of L ouisiana at Lafayette instilled in her the confidence and tools to pursue higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Their email access was immediately suspended. The impact extends beyond the Education Department. Some view these actions as part of a larger strategy, given Trump's campaign promise to shut down the Education Department, which he claims has been influenced by "radicals, zealots and Marxists."

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COE

JULY 15, 2025

Jones as Its Third President Press Releases Council for Opportunity in Education Board of Directors Unanimously Chooses Kimberly A. Representative Steven Horsford’s Inspirational Journey Blog From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S. McNair and Perseverance Blog Ronald E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2025

Department of Education announced it will no longer allow federal funds to support career, technical, and adult education programs for undocumented students, rescinding a nearly three-decade-old policy that permitted such access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2025

The judge also prohibited Trump from transferring management of the federal student loan portfolio and special needs programs to other federal agencies, as the president had pledged to do from the Oval Office. The plaintiffs argued that the department could no longer fulfill critical duties, including managing the $1.6

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 10, 2025

Unlike datasets that only include information on students income level, NPSAS examines how students pay for college. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Technology enables us to break the barriers of time and space to deliver quality instruction directly to students, when and where they prefer. New models are emerging that place students at the center of all we do. We’re rethinking financial aid and student loans in new and innovative ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2024

It’s been an incredibly challenging and chaotic year in student loan space,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit organization working to eliminate student debt. Department of Education. As of December 2023, 43.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. Reformers have hailed the change as a critical step towards enabling people in prison to experience the myriad benefits of higher education. But the consequences extend past the end of a sentence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 8, 2023

New Mexico's Higher Education Department has announced that it is accepting applications for a program that will provide up to 100 percent student loan forgiveness for New Mexico residents who graduated from one of the 23 out-of-state professional and graduate programs. Michelle Lujan Grisham has approved $2.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A new National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) report analyzes a Unified Servicing and Data Solution (USDS) contract, set to go live in the spring, and its potential impact on student loan borrowers’ rights and experiences. Alpha Taylor The U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But at the highest levels of power, where decisions about student loan policy are made, race is barely discussed at all. The focus on “all students” was typical. Eric Felix The tenor of the session was set in the opening statement by U.S. Scholars suggested several different reasons for the widespread avoidance of race. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A proposed federal financial aid policy could change the lives of postsecondary students, particularly Black and Latinx students, by allowing them to spend less out-of-pocket for their degrees and prevent the accumulation of student debt, which remains financially crippling for many graduates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It TICAS “traced out all the different pieces that we would need to have a vibrant, acceptive, equitable higher education system,” said Gadkaree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The Net Price Calculator Improvement Act aims to improve effectiveness and access to net price calculators. Last year, the Government Accountability Office put out a report that colleges were misleading students, understating costs, and omitting key details about federal student aid. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. According to the Department of Education, about six million students received Pell Grant funding in the 2020 – 2021 academic year. The total student loan debt reached $1.75

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

It is evident that the low African American male student graduation rates at a predominantly Black institution in the northeastern United States continue to be a concern for higher education administrators. There are serious inequities among students who graduate from colleges. Not dropout rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Disparities that persist at the high school and college level, such as disproportionate arrest rates and underrepresentation in post-secondary education institutions, can often be traced back to the foundational years of a child's education. Collaboration with higher education institutions is crucial to accomplishing these aims.

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Student Loan Planner

APRIL 17, 2023

According to The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS), about 60% of Delaware college graduates have student loan debt. That can feel like an overwhelming amount of money, especially when you consider monthly payments once you finish your higher education.

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