Four federal agencies will administer dozens of grant programs at the Education Department—a move that Trump officials are ...

The Department of Education and Reimagining and Improving Student Education (RISE) committee reviewed definitions of a professional degree for the purposes of loan eligibility.

About 320 incarcerated people were enrolled in higher education as of Oct. 2024. That's a fraction of the estimated 3,000 ...

The Pell Grant program has been the foundation for federal financial aid since 1972. Its mission was simple: provide ...

Top Stories from Nov. 18, 2025 MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The University of Mobile is offering a new scholarship to help incoming freshman students with financial need, according to a UM news release. The ...

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Years of inconsistent funding for the Pell Grant and state budget cuts played a role in a nearly half-million drop in the number of Black students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities over the ...

The NCAA’s request to remove Tyon Grant-Foster’s eligibility case to a federal court was denied Friday and remanded to Spokane County Superior Court, according to a motion signed by U.S. District ...

On Oct. 10, personnel who oversee the distribution of TRIO grants within the U.S. Department of Education were part of widespread layoffs, according to USA TODAY. The federal TRIO programs began with ...

Since the federal government shut down on Oct. 1 after the Senate’s failure to pass a budget for the new fiscal year, hundreds of thousands of federal employees have gone on unpaid leave or work ...

Rhode Island lawmakers are infuriated by a proposal to rename one of the federal Pell Grants – a grant honoring one of Rhode Island’s former and longest serving U.S. senators – to “Trump Grants” after ...