In the following Practitioner Perspective, Andrew McKinney, OER coordinator at the City University of New York (CUNY), and Amanda Coolidge, director of Open Education at BCcampus in British Columbia, Canada,…
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$1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Clears House, with Senate Likely to Nix Minimum Wage Increase
DC Shuttle … House Passes Coronavirus Relief Bill. The U.S. House passed $1.9 trillion pandemic relief legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act (HR 1319), by a vote of 219 to… Read more »
Just Browsing … Some Facts and Figures from the NEJHE Beat
Number of middle school students in afterschool programs, 2014: 2,300,000 Afterschool Alliance Number in 2020: 1,800,000 Afterschool Alliance Percentage of U.S. households with K–12 students that shifted to some form…
A Different Look Into the Labor Pool
NEBHE offers a regional analysis of national Counting Credentials report … The U.S. is in the midst of one of the most severe economic recessions in history, and now more… Read more »
Colleges May Have Survived COVID … But Surviving Post-COVID May Prove More Difficult
Colleges and universities were hit hard by the COVID crisis. The American Council on Education (ACE) estimated a total impact of $120 billion in a recent letter to legislators. That…
Sentenced to Knowledge
NEBHE explores higher education and incarceration … Congress voted in December to lift the 26-year-old ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students. A bipartisan effort to direct Pell Grants to… Read more »
Knocking at the College Door: What Does the Declining Number of High School Graduates Mean for the Future of Higher Education?
Thanks to everyone who joined our Knocking at the College Door: What Does the Declining Number of High School Graduates Mean for the Future of Higher Education? webinar on Friday, January… Read more »
Making the Most of COVID-19 Relief Funding
In the final days of 2020, Congress gave the country a long-overdue Christmas present with the passage of a new COVID-19 relief bill. Known as the Coronavirus Response and Relief… Read more »
Long-Distance Operators: A New National Report on College Students Learning Virtually
The number of students nationwide enrolled in distance education programs rose to nearly 3 million in fall 2019, a 7.5% increase over 2018 enrollment data, according to a new report… Read more »
Biden Taps RI Gov. Raimondo for Commerce, Boston Mayor Walsh for Labor
Comings and Goings … President-elect Joe Biden nominated Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo as the next U.S. secretary of commerce and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as the next U.S…. Read more »