Higher Ed Policy Roundup: Vol. 6 - Issue 12

On Wednesday, House Democrats released a funding bill for Fiscal Year 2023 that would increase education funding by 13 percent. The Labor-Education-HHS funding bill would provide the Education Department with $86.7 billion in discretionary funding, $10.3 billion more than the $76.4 billion that was provided in funding for the current year. The bill would also increase the maximum Pell Grant award by $500, taking it to $7,395 for the 2023-24 school year, and provide a $225 million grant to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority-serving institutions for research and infrastructure development.

The new NASFAA survey finds that financial aid administrators are doing more to publicize the availability of professional judgment as a means to increase aid for students in need.

The Hope Center highlights innovative emergency aid programs offered by states.

A retired Bankruptcy Court judge argues that amending bankruptcy laws to allow borrowers to discharge student debt is a better policy than cancelling debt.

There were no relevant student-aid related bills recently introduced for consideration by the 117th Congress (2021-2022).