Topic: Higher Education

We commend the Department for its continued commitment to providing student debt relief to the millions of borrowers who are harmed by student debt.

An EdTrust in Texas deep dive into the pandemic funding awarded to postsecondary students and recommendations moving forward.

We request that the L-HHS-ED bill make substantial investments to ensure that essential education programs have the resources they need to ensure the greatest impact for students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.

The Council’s student members are a diverse group, including first-generation college students, student-parents, student government leaders, and individuals from various races, ethnicities, ages, and backgrounds.

Jinann Bitar, director of higher education research at EdTrust, recently talked with Aneesh Sohoni, CEO of One Million Degrees (OMD), a leader in bolstering college completion rates and accelerating community college students' economic mobility.

We, the undersigned 16 organizations, write to express our support for appropriating at least $100 million for the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program in Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25).

This report spotlights challenges that various Texas institutions faced and the creative ways in which these institutions confronted them and offers recommendations organized around key findings.

Our analysis of college access for undergraduate students from seven different races/ethnicities across the nation’s four-year higher education institutions provide a holistic set of data about how students of various races and ethnicities experience college access.

Statement from Wil Del Pilar, Senior Vice President of EdTrust, on the Biden-Harris administration’s student loan cancellation announcement.