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President Trump has said he wants to take money from elite universities and use it to fund trade schools. Yet Trump’s absurdly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which the House passed in May, would ...

Waco college administrators are joining colleagues nationwide with a new assignment heading into the Independence Day weekend. Officials are waiting for the dust to settle from the massive federal ...

Higher education leaders worry the House’s version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would jeopardize Pell Grants for thousands of NC college students. The Senate, however, is less eager to restrict the ...

After a year of dour predictions that the botched rollout of the new federal aid form would drive low-income students away from college, higher ed institutions this fall are proudly highlighting ...

In January, the Congressional Budget Office released projections showing that the Pell grant program is expecting to face a $2.7 billion shortfall in funding for the 2025 fiscal year. The program will ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A House spending bill proposes renaming new “Workforce Pell Grants” as “Trump Grants,” sparking opposition from ...

College presidents are rallying behind Senate Republicans in a bid to stave off megabill cuts to a program that helps more than 6 million low- and middle-income students pay for school. To help avert ...

When Congress voted in 2020 to lift the 26-year ban on Pell Grants for people in prison, it marked a new era for educating the incarcerated. Although establishing new prison education programs is a ...

“To attempt to erase Senator Pell’s name from a program that has uplifted generations and replace it with a president whose record on education is defined by cuts and dismantlement is a profound ...

The "One Big, Beautiful Bill" will significantly change the eligibility and calculation guidelines for the Pell Grant program starting July 1, 2026. Only one change will likely give higher grant ...