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Serena C. Klempin; Sarah Griffin; Tia J. Monahan; Megan N. Anderson; Thomas Brock – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2024
In order to assist higher education institutions and their students during the pandemic, the federal government established the Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) Fund, which directed over $75 billion to institutions of higher education--including nearly $25 billion to community colleges--over a three-year period. The U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Aid, Community Colleges
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Litwok, Daniel; Peck, Laura R.; Walton, Douglas – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
This article estimates earnings impacts for those who completed long-term college credentials (degrees or college certificates requiring a year or more of study) and those who did not in an experimental evaluation of a federally-funded sectoral job training program. The experimental evaluation found no overall impact of the program on earnings,…
Descriptors: College Students, Allied Health Occupations Education, Credentials, Job Training
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2025
This statutory report presents the activities and accomplishments of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General (OIG) from October 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025. The audits, investigations, and related work highlighted in this report are products of OIG's mission to identify and stop fraud, waste, and abuse; and promote…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Departments, Inspection, Audits (Verification)
Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Jeffrey T. Denning; Joshua Goodman; Cait Lamberton; Kelly Ochs Rosinger – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Do nudge interventions that have generated positive impacts at a local level maintain efficacy when scaled state or nationwide? What specific mechanisms explain the positive impacts of promising smaller-scale nudges? We investigate, through two randomized controlled trials, the impact of a national and state-level campaign to encourage students to…
Descriptors: Financial Aid Applicants, Student Financial Aid, Prompting, College Applicants
Bradley R. Curs; Casandra E. Harper; Sangmin Park – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
This quasi-experimental study examined the effectiveness of a one-time emergency financial relief program among Pell Grant eligible undergraduate students in Spring 2015 pursuing their first bachelor's degree across academic and financial outcomes. The academic outcomes included retention to the next semester, degree completion, attempted credit…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Student Financial Aid, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Federal Student Aid, US Department of Education, 2024
Federal Student Aid (FSA), a principal office of the United States (U.S.) Department of Education (Department), is required by law to produce an annual report, which details the organization's fiscal year financial and program performance. The Federal Student Aid FY 2024 Annual Report (Annual Report) is a comprehensive document that provides an…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Public Agencies
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Olga Rodriguez; Daniel Payares-Montoya; Kevin Cook – Grantee Submission, 2024
The pandemic created daunting challenges for higher education. The federal government provided California Community Colleges billions of dollars in aid for students and institutions. How did they use these funds? How well did their pandemic recovery activities and investments help reengage students? What will institutions do when the money runs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Pandemics
Bass, Elizabeth – Congressional Budget Office, 2019
Beginning August 1, 2009, the Post-9/11 GI Bill extended educational benefits to service members who were on active duty in the military on or after September 11, 2001. This GI Bill (officially the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008), the latest version of a law that helps veterans pay for higher education, provides more…
Descriptors: Veterans, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Student Financial Aid
Peck, Laura R.; Litwok, Daniel; Walton, Douglas; Harvill, Eleanor; Werner, Alan – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2019
In 2010, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the first round of five-year Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) to 32 organizations in 23 states; five were tribal organizations. The purpose of the HPOG Program is to provide education and training to Temporary…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Financial Aid, Grants, Federal Aid
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) annual plan identifies the audits, inspections, and other activities that the OIG intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's citizens and students. The FYs 2025-2026 Annual Plan details the assignment areas OIG plans…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Inspection, Audits (Verification)
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Bennett, Christopher; Evans, Brent; Marsicano, Christopher – Research in Higher Education, 2021
In recent decades, several dozen colleges and universities have instituted loan-reduction initiatives (LRIs), such as "no-loan" programs. Institutions frequently cast such initiatives as efforts to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus. Using a difference-in-differences analytic strategy with national institution-level data, we…
Descriptors: Loan Repayment, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
Barr, Christopher A. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic and the move to fully remote education required higher education practitioners to place extra focus on low socioeconomic students and those considered most at risk due to the disruption in learning (Goldrick-Rab, 2020; Kerr, 2020; Lustig, 2020; Miller, 2020; Zenter, 2020). Davis (2020) discovered that rural first-generation…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Federal Legislation
Lenz, Jimmie – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2019
In 1965, the federal government passed the Higher Education Act (HEA), which paved the way for today's federal student loan program. Much of the policy debate about student loans centers on the amount of debt that has already been issued, escalating default rates, and what can be done to make repayment more affordable. But often overlooked in this…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
For adults with low incomes and potential first-generation college-goers, enrolling in college can be challenging. The U.S. Department of Education-funded Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs) provide supports to help navigate some of the barriers to enrollment, including assistance with completing college and financial aid application processes,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Adult Education, Adult Students
Anderson, Drew M.; Zaber, Melanie A. – RAND Corporation, 2021
RAND researchers studied more than 450,000 recipients of New Jersey's Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) -- the nation's most generous state-funded grant program per state resident college student -- to explore whether getting larger amounts of grant aid led to higher graduation rates for students at varying income levels and attending two-year, four-year,…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Higher Education, Tuition, Student Financial Aid
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