Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami January 4, 2021 Miguel Cardona, education commissioner in Connecticut, is a strong defender of public schools. Biden reiterates support for free community college and all public colleges for families earning less than $125,000. President-elect Joe Biden has selected Connecticut education commissioner Miguel Cardona as his […]
Inside Higher Ed Emma Whitford January 4, 2021 Inflation for U.S. colleges and universities rose 1.9 percent in the 2020 fiscal year — a smaller increase than the 3 percent jump in 2019 — according to the Commonfund Higher Education Price Index. The index tracks changes to eight higher education cost components: faculty salaries, […]
CTE POLICY WATCH December 22, 2020 Michael Matthews This week we close with our final coverage of New Members of Congress by profiling new Members from Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. You can find all of our editions at the links below: Edition I (AL, AZ, CA, CO) Edition […]
FEDERAL REGISTER Robert L. King December 23, 2020 AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The Secretary is reopening the application period for certain institutions of higher education (IHEs) that previously applied for HEERF, CARES Act funds. The Secretary takes this action to specifically allow those […]
CECU – Career Education Colleges and Universities December 23, 2020 Career Education Colleges and Universities (CECU) President and CEO, Dr. Jason Altmire, issued the following statement following President-Elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as the next U.S. Secretary of Education. “All of us at CECU congratulate Commissioner Cardona on his appointment. Given his […]
HIGHER ED DIVE Jeremy Bauer-Wolf December 22, 2020 Dive Brief: President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday tapped Miguel Cardona, the chief of Connecticut’s public schools, to lead the U.S. Department of Education. Cardona, a Latino man with two decades of experience in K-12 schools, fulfills Biden’s pledge to pick an Education Secretary with deep roots in public […]
HR DIVE Ryan Golden December 16, 2020 Dive Brief: Employers can require proof that employees have received a COVID-19 vaccine — with some exceptions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in Dec. 16 guidance. COVID-19 vaccinations approved by the Food and Drug Administration do not constitute medical examinations under […]
Duane Morris LLP December 16, 2020 ALERTS AND UPDATES With the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine approved for emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration and the CDC and approval of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine expected imminently, America is seeing light at the end of the very long tunnel that […]
Education Dive Natalie Schwartz December 11, 2020 Dive Brief: Business Roundtable, a nonprofit representing CEOs of major U.S. companies, announced a new initiative this week to recognize skills, rather than only college degrees, in the hiring process. More than 80 member companies have signed onto the initiative. In addition to implementing new recruitment strategies, […]
COMMUNITY COLLEGE DAILY David Baime December 13, 2020 Washington Watch is produced by the AACC office of government relations and policy analysis. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has publicly released its formal top-line transition agenda for the incoming Biden administration. President-elect Joe Biden has created numerous teams, generally focused on individual departments, […]