Lumina is hiring a Strategy Director for Federal Policy!! You'd get to help shape the field and work with the wonderful Michelle Asha Cooper and Ernest Ezeugo (and others!) luminafoundation.org/about/careers/…

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨 (My first w/ @HigherLearnADV) Check out our newest policy brief outlining how federal policymakers can improve satisfactory academic progress (SAP) to make financial aid work for today’s students! 🧵 1/5

SAP is such an important equity issue. And there is a LOT more that U.S. Department of Education could do to protect students' financial aid through regs and guidance.

Ever wonder why Black communities struggle to get a grocery store? Or why there's so many Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree stores in low-income and high-income Black communities? Here's my latest: capitalbnews.org/dollar-stores-…

After #MeToo and the Trump presidency, “Ted Lasso” was “supposed to rehab masculinity’s brand,” writes Tressie McMillan Cottom. Instead, the show has just become a “a cautionary tale about romanticizing himpathy all along.” nyti.ms/3qNHy3H

Are you a leader, systems thinker, and fierce advocate for equity in our higher education system? Join our #HigherEd team as our newest director of higher education policy! Apply here: edtru.st/3N3UpX1 #HigherEd

OUT NOW | ‘Why the Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program Matters’ dives into key data points on student populations 'stopping out' & the importance of ⬆️funding streams for comprehensive #collegecompletion programs like #CASS to ⬆️graduation rates: bit.ly/46gY1xE

We get it: it’s frustrating to feel like your communities are unseen, unheard, and unnoticed by the people making policy. Apply now to join Next100 as a policy entrepreneur and give your community a voice in policy. Learn more: bit.ly/3Cv2WgU

🚨 NEWS: Biden admin will begin regulatory process to enact student debt relief under Higher Education Act, per notice posted today on Ed Dept's website: www2.ed.gov/policy/highere…

A whole lot of people are about to learn about the #negreg hashtag.

Even as measures are needed to ease the debt burden from a broken system, Congress should invest in the #Pell grant to better support low-income students & make college more affordable going forward. Thanks tednbc4 for covering this critical need. nbcwashington.com/investigations…

CALLOUT: I’m looking for more student voices for a story on the end of race-conscious college admissions. Hoping to speak with current college students in Louisiana especially at #Tulane since it’s the most selective institution in the state.

There are just 3 DAYS left to apply to join our third cohort of policy entrepreneurs! If you have a policy issue that you want to change, be the change you want to see and apply to Next100 today! Applications close THIS FRIDAY, July 28: bit.ly/3Cv2WgU!

As colleges await federal guidance re: SCOTUS decision, 2 govt officials affirm that ‘lawful avenues remain open’ for colleges to pursue student diversity. tinyurl.com/5s7vwcnh

A few weeks ago I spoke to the Education Writers Association about the SCOTUS decision on the use of race in college admissions. (1/x)

On Tuesday, I was glad to join a The Chronicle of Higher Education virtual forum on the 6.6M-student problem of stranded credits & transcript withholding. Watch video of the discussion, including Dawn Medley Stony Brook University, @MartinKurzweil of Ithaka S+R, & Sosanya Jones HowardU_SOE: chronicle.com/featured/stude…

Financial aid should serve as a hand up for low- and middle-income students pursuing higher education—not as a handout for college operators. That’s why Carolyn Fast The Century Foundation and I wrote in Inside Higher Ed in support of new U.S. Department of Education regulations. insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

When someone gets sick, they should be able to focus on getting better, rather than fighting debt collectors coercing them into paying bills they may not even owe. Today, the @CFPB joined Vice President JD Vance to announce a proposal to ban medical bills on credit reports. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

Great piece in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education by Michelle Asha Cooper Lumina Foundation: We need policies that assist #StudentParents inside + outside the classroom *and* hold schools accountable for value. Students should never be left worse off than if they had never gone to college diverseeducation.com/opinion/articl…