As Congress eyes the next phase of coronavirus relief, some lawmakers want to help pay frontline workers’ student loans or higher education costs. “Grocery clerks didn’t take that job at relatively modest wages thinking they were saving the world,” said Rep. Ann Kuster (D-NH) in an interview with Yahoo Finance. A new bill introduced this More Info »
SAN DIEGO—California College San Diego (CCSD) is helping the local San Diego community during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic by donating a ventilator and three BiPAP machines to the Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center. This life-saving equipment will be loaned to the hospital for the foreseeable future. They will be returned to the San Diego campus More Info »
S&P Global Ratings dropped outlooks on more than a quarter of the colleges and universities it rates because of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on higher education. The ratings agency cut ratings on 117 colleges — 84 private institutions and 33 public institutions — from stable to negative. It changed outlooks for 10 more — seven More Info »
Yesterday, the Department of Education (ED) released a Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act quarterly reporting communication that outlined a process for schools to meet legislative reporting requirements. The CARES Act requires any grantee that receives more than $150,000 in funds to report to ED on a quarterly basis on how those funds More Info »
Over 90% of students around the world saw their schools close as a result of Covid-19. Online learning platform Coursera, founded by two Stanford professors, has seen more than 25 million enrollments since mid-March, a 520% increase from the same period last year. In response to the pandemic, the company is offering thousands of free More Info »
The coronavirus pandemic has left college leaders facing difficult decisions about when to reopen campuses and how to go about it. The Chronicle is tracking individual colleges’ plans. Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, wrote to say that while her institution has not settled on a specific direction, the coronavirus has illuminated the importance More Info »
Eligibility of Students at Institutions of Higher Education form Funds under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Interim final rule. SUMMARY: The Department of Education (Department) issues this interim final rule so that institutions of higher education may appropriately determine which individuals attending More Info »
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today a new higher education discretionary grant program designed to provide students the opportunity to develop new skills, provide innovators and inventors the resources to expand existing businesses or build new ones, and encourage institutions of higher education to foster business development and innovation as America More Info »
Note: We updated this Electronic Announcement on June 16, 2020, extending the timeframe for relief from Return of Title IV Funds requirements provided under the CARES Act to periods that include March 13, 2020, or begin between March 13 and the later of December 31 or the last date that the national emergency is in More Info »
Contact: Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced today a new grant program designed to help institutions of higher education emerge from the coronavirus pandemic more resilient and better able to expand educational opportunities for students. The grants can be utilized in a variety of ways, including resuming More Info »