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Monday, April 14, 2025 New Report Highlights Benefit of Pell Grant for Students and States » By Louisa Woodhouse, Senior Associate, Policy and Advocacy, and Bill DeBaun, Senior Director, Data and Strategic Initiativ...
Monday, April 14, 2025 Announcing NCAN's Virtual Advocacy Week » By Louisa Woodhouse, Senior Associate, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes National College Attain...
Friday, April 11, 2025 DHS Gains Access to IRS Data » Reading time: Two minutes With signatures being placed on a data sharing agreement last week, the Department of Ho...
Monday, April 7, 2025 Members and Students Convene in DC for NCAN’s Inaugural Leadership Summit » Reading time: Four minutes Last week, more than 230 students, practitioners, and leaders from the National College At...
Thursday, March 13, 2025 New Federal Policy Action Center Keeps You Informed » By Louisa Woodhouse, Senior Associate, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes The National College Atta...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 Widespread Layoffs at ED Risk Uncertainty About Aid and Operating Disruption » By Elizabeth Morgan, Chief External Relations Officer, and Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Readi...
Monday, March 10, 2025 President Trump Signs Executive Order Proposing Restrictions on Public Service Loan Forgiveness » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes Late on Friday, March 9, P...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Five Takeaways from ED’s FAQ on the Diversity and Inclusion Dear Colleague » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Four minutes On March 1, the US D...
Monday, March 3, 2025 New Report Details the Nonprofit Funding Gap, Strategies to Increase Student Success » Reading Time: Four minutes This week, the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) and America Forward release...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Federal Update: House Passes Budget Calling for Massive Cuts » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes Last night, by a vote of 21...
Monday, February 17, 2025 Trump Administration Forbids Schools, Agencies from Considering Race in Programming and Operations » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Five minutes On Friday, February 14, th...
Saturday, February 15, 2025 McMahon Hearing: Future of ED and Federal Education Funding Top of Mind for Senate » Reading time: Four minutes On the morning of Thursday, February 13, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensio...
Monday, February 10, 2025 Federal Funding Freeze: What Happens Next? » Reading time: Three minutes The last few weeks have been full of breaking federal policy news. With new updates ev...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 Student and Parent Data Should be Private; Chaos Only Hurts Access and Attainment » By Elizabeth Morgan, Chief External Relations Officer, and Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Readi...
Monday, January 27, 2025 Breaking Down Trump’s Executive Orders » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Nine minutes On day one of his administ...
Monday, January 27, 2025 What to Expect from Congressional Budget Reconciliation » Reading time: Four minutes The 119th Congress began on January 3rd, 2025. With a Republican majority in the House...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Three Lessons Learned at ASHE 2024 » Reading time: Three minutes The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) gathered academics, policy...
Friday, November 22, 2024 New Research: Short-Term Pell Didn’t Increase Employment, Earnings » By Bill DeBaun, Senior Director of Data and Strategic Initiatives, and Louisa Woodhouse, Senior Policy Associate Readi...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Linda McMahon: What Do We Know? » Reading time: Two minutes Photo courtesy of Reuters On Tuesday evening, news broke that Linda McMahon w...
Monday, November 4, 2024 What Will the Election Results Mean for Higher Education Policy? » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Four minutes Last week, the National Co...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Strategies for Tackling College Student Food Insecurity » Reading time: Four minutes In an era where higher education is often seen as a pathway to success, a silent crisis...
Thursday, September 26, 2024 FAFSA Findings: GAO Reports Highlight Issues, ED White Paper Focuses Forward for 2025-26 » Reading time: Five minutes FAFSA, FAFSA, FAFSA. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for FAFSA, or the Free Applicatio...
Monday, September 9, 2024 New Report: Cost Remains the Largest Barrier to Higher Ed » Reading time: Nine minutes The majority of Americans believe in the value of higher education. But, in order to at...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 Senate Appropriations Committee Advances Bipartisan Spending Bill » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Three minutes On August 1, the US Senat...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 NCAN Policy Team Reflects on an Eventful First Half of 2024 » Reading time: Three minutes Spring marks the start of an eventful season in the policy space, which was particular...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 The FAFSA Deadline Act Proposed in Congress » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: One minute The House Committee on Educa...
Friday, May 3, 2024 NCAN Submits FY 2025 Appropriations Requests for Federal Student Aid Programs » Reading time: Two minutes Appropriations season is in full swing in Washington, DC. Last week, the National Colleg...
Friday, April 12, 2024 “FAFSA Fail”: NCAN and Others Voice Frustrations, Identify Solutions at Congressional Hearing » Reading time: Three minutes The House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development convened on Wedne...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 Designated Entities Issue Resolved, but Challenges Remain » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Four minutes Yesterday, the US Departme...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Nurturing Connections: 10 Steps to Build a Relationship with an Elected Official Post-Hill Day » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Four minutes Attending the National College...
Friday, March 22, 2024 Members and Students Convene in Washington, DC for #NCANHillDay » Reading time: Two minutes Nearly 100 National College Attainment Network (NCAN) members and the students they se...
Monday, March 11, 2024 NCAN and Partners Sponsor Roundtable to Address College Student Food Insecurity » Reading time: Four minutes On March 7, student, community, higher education, and workforce development leaders gat...
Friday, January 19, 2024 Federal Spending Update: Please Weigh In! » By Catherine Brown, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy Reading time: Two minutes Congress passed a short-te...
Friday, December 8, 2023 You're Invited! NCAN 2024 Advocacy Training and Hill Day » By Louisa Woodhouse, Policy Associate Reading time: Two minutes The National College Attainment Network's (NCA...
Friday, October 27, 2023 New Federal Regulations Require Clearer Financial Aid Offers and Ban Most Transcript Withholding » By Anika Van Eaton, Vice President, Policy at uAspire Reading time: Four minutes The Biden-Harris Administrati...
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