 Illustration: Justin Morrison Debating the State Role in Replacing Federal Pandemic Relief Jessica Blake, Inside Higher Ed In recent years, budgets for public colleges and universities in Connecticut and across the country have been buttressed by hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-relief funds. As those monies wither, college administrators and faculty members warn of dire consequences if they aren’t replaced.
But Connecticut lawmakers feel otherwise. They argue that the institutions need to lower their expectations and get used to a nonemergency level of funding that’s more sustainable for the state long term. |
CSU Campuses Focus on New Strategies to Help Students of Color Ashley Smith, EdSource Last year, Cal State campuses received some sobering details about the growing gaps in graduation rates between students of color and their white counterparts. Instead of decreasing, the graduation equity gaps between Black, Latino, and Native or Indigenous students have been increasing.
Some campuses are taking action, targeting new dollars and deploying new strategies to increase graduation, persistence, and retention rates for students of color. |
Testing, Athlete Labor, and the FAFSA Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn, Future U For the past few months, acronyms have dominated higher education headlines: SAT/ACT, NLRB, and FAFSA.
This episode of Future U dissects the stories behind the acronyms: What's next for test-optional admissions after announcements from Dartmouth College, Brown University, and Yale University; what's behind the efforts of the Dartmouth men's basketball team to unionize; and what will the impact be from the difficult rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form? |
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