The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2023

Trinity academic to establish how college benefited from slave trade in move to achieve ‘reconciliation’ A University of Cambridge college is to appoint an academic to examine its legacies of slavery. Trinity College, Cambridge, has announced that its new legacies of slavery research and teaching fellow will investigate the college’s links to the transatlantic slave trade.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2023

While the budget proposal has virtually no chance of passing Congress as drafted, it signals the White House’s priorities on postsecondary education and beyond. To that end, the spending plan features a pathway to double the maximum federal Pell Grant by 2029, a policy move college access organizations have demanded for years and the Biden administration has supported.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2023

The Education Trust released the following statement from Denise Forte, President and CEO of The Education Trust, on the Biden-Harris administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget request: “We are pleased the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed budget includes a nearly 14% increase in education funding. The budget that was put forth shows a keen understanding of the ongoing challenges facing students of color and students from low-income backgrounds.

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