SAN DIEGO—California College San Diego (CCSD) is proud to announce that 22 of its Respiratory Therapy students will soon be able to help in the fight against COVID-19 (coronavirus) by working with Scripps Health as respiratory therapy externs. Changes by the federal government and the Respiratory Care Board of California have allowed “students enrolled in More Info »
The coronavirus pandemic has left higher-education leaders facing difficult decisions about when to reopen campuses and how to go about it. The Chronicle is tracking individual colleges’ plans. Most say they are planning for an in-person fall semester. We’re currently tracking more than 1,000 colleges. Below is our list of colleges that have either disclosed More Info »
House Democrats want one more bite of the apple with student loan forgiveness. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loan Forgiveness House Democrats pitched an ambitious $3 trillion new stimulus spending proposal – called the HEROES Act – that, among other benefits, includes a new, one-time stimulus check for $1,200 for each individual ($2,400 More Info »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Contact: Press Office (202) 401-1576 or press@ed.gov Secretary DeVos Delivers $6 Billion in Additional Grant Funding to Support Continued Education at America’s Colleges, Universities WASHINGTON — After quickly making available more than $6 billion for colleges and universities to provide direct emergency cash grants to students, U.S. Secretary More Info »
“In other words, if you have a student loan, your monthly payment is ZERO if you do not have any income, for whatever reason. When you do begin earning income, your monthly payment will never be more than 10 percent of your income AFTER you deduct the necessities of life, such as the cost of More Info »
Note: On July 14, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Inspector General updated Dear CPA Letter CPA-20-01 to extend the timeframe for the site visit exemption described in the March 10, 2020 letter, to audits of fiscal years ending through December 31, 2020. On March 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Education, Office More Info »
The CARES Act Legislation Allows Summit to Assist its Students during This Challenging Time San Bernardino, CA, (April 21, 2020) — With three campuses in Southern California, Summit College, is honored to announce that it will use the CARES ACT to support its students by providing grants to help cover expenses related to disruptions to More Info »
Amid campus closures and education disruption in light of COVID-19 outbreak, online education platform makes general education courses available to all through July 31 MINNEAPOLIS–Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) announced today it will make its Sophia Learning online education platform, whose mission is to offer students affordable ways to get to and through college, available to More Info »
Section 18004(e) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ( describing the use of funds distributed from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (“HEERF”). Section 18004(c) of the CARES Act requires institutions to use no less than 50 percent of the funds received from Section 18004(a)(1) of the CARES Act to provide Emergency More Info »
In the past week, universities have begun releasing yet more details about how they plan to bring students, staff, and faculty members back to campus in the coming weeks and months. College presidents have started to roll out the outlines of those plans, with many insisting that their final decisions will be guided by science More Info »