Feb 25, 2021
Hosts Jon Fansmith, Sarah Spreitzer, and Mushtaq Gunja talk with House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) about the recent past, present, and future of higher education legislation under his committee’s purview, including COVID-19 relief funding, doubling the maximum Pell Grant and “second chance” Pell for incarcerated individuals, student loan debt forgiveness, and more.
Here are some of the links and references from this week’s show:
Congress Lifts Long-Standing Ban on
Pell Grants to People in Prison
PBS Newshour | December 29, 2020
Prisoners to Get 'Second Chance
Pell'
Inside Higher Ed | June 24, 2016
Aim Higher Act
Congress Close on Simplifying
FAFSA
Inside Higher Ed | December 7, 2020
FAFSA Simplification Act Summary of
Provisions – APLU
It’s Time To Double The Pell
Grant
Forbes | September 24, 2020
Doubling the Pell Grant to Promote Access
to Opportunity, Higher Ed
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | December 15,
2020
Experts Weigh in on Biden’s Support
of $10,000 in Student Debt Forgiveness
CNBC | January 22, 2021
Renewing the Higher Education
Act
ACE
Will Colleges Tap Large Endowments
During Pandemic?
Inside Higher Ed | May 22, 2021
Bipartisan Pair of Senators
Reintroduces Immigration Reform Bill Protecting ‘Dreamers’
CNBC | February 4, 2021
Remember the Dreamers
Top Higher Education Post
Inside Higher Ed | February 22, 2021