Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The maximum Pell Grant award will remain at $7,395 for the 2024-25 school year, under a $79.1 billion bicameral, bipartisan budget signed by President Joe Biden Saturday. This maintains the $900 increase of the last two fiscal … Read more
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a law on Tuesday that will ban public colleges from funding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, continuing a nationwide push by conservatives to remove such programs from higher education. The … Read more
Dive Brief: Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, signed a bill into law Wednesday that will tie tenure at the state’s public colleges to whether professors promote intellectual diversity and free inquiry. Under the law, faculty members may be denied tenure if they are deemed unlikely to encourage intellectual diversity or expose students to scholarly … Read more
Update: Jan. 22, 2024: President Joe Biden signed the legislation for the continuing resolution on Friday. ______________________ Congress has approved a continuing resolution that delays a decision until March 8 about the final fiscal year 2024 budget for the U.S. Department of Education and several other agencies. The measure is awaiting President Joe Biden’s signature. … Read more