On September 28th, President Obama announced that once again, the maximum Pell grant award for 2017-18 would be increasing to $5920 but few other details were available at the time. A little over a week ago, the Department … Read more »
Battle Wages On Over Higher Education Spending In the FY17 Budget
On March 23rd, 2016, the House Budget Committee (HBC) released more detail surrounding spending cuts on some key higher education programs. There remains a dichotomy between the Republican controlled Congress and the Democratic White House as they both … Read more »
Peeling Back the Layers of President Obama’s Proposed Budget for 2017 – Part Three
March 10th, 2016
In Part One of a three-part blog series, we wrote about the tuition-free, community college proposal President Obama is looking for in his 2017 budget. In Part Two, we took a look at the Pell grant overhaul … Read more »