Bad Days for Biden
And a ShortStack of Mixed Reviews for Higher Ed
By all rights, our lead story this week should have been, “Biden’s Too Old and Forgetful to Be Prosecuted. But luckily, we are a higher education publication and so the story of the week is best summed up by Angel Pérez, president of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, this way: “Stunned. Gobsmacked, really… This is devastating—I’m not sure what other word to use.” Which is why Inside Higher Ed called the Biden Administration’s “much-criticized” rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid form (FAFSA) “yet another ‘devastating’ FAFSA delay.” It now looks like colleges will not begin receiving applicants’ federal aid information until March at the earliest, which would pretty much sum up the problems that universities and their prospective students are having this week –- which is many weeks since December, when the forms were first promised. How are students supposed to select a college or colleges select students without knowing how much money they have to work with? And to think that this congressional mandated makeover was supposed to “simplify” the process.
Sources
Biden’s Too Old and Forgetful to Be Prosecuted (Daily Beast)
Another ‘Devastating’ FAFSA Delay (Inside Higher Ed)
Every FAFSA Delay Puts College Further Out of Reach (New York Times)
Further Reading
Colleges won’t receive FAFSA applicant info until March, Education Department says (Higher Ed Dive)
A Call for Deadline Extensions After FAFSA Delay (Inside Higher Ed)
‘Excuse After Excuse’: Republicans Slam Biden for FAFSA Launch (Inside Higher Ed)
How the New Federal-Aid Form Is Shutting Some Students Out (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Will Families Pay Less With Two Students in College? Now, It Depends. (New York Times)
ShortStack: DEI Not Done Yet, SATs Are Back, Spring Break and a Moon Mission
College Presidents Are Quietly Organizing to Support DEI (Chronicle of Higher Education)
A Top College Reinstates the SAT (New York Times)
Utah Bans DEI Programs at State Institutions (Inside Higher Ed)
He Taught AP History. Now He Targets Teachers for Being Too Woke. (Wall Street Journal)
It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission (New York Times)
Do You Know What the Public Really Thinks of College? Chronicle of Higher Education)
The Feds Have Been Flooded With Campus Complaints of Anti-Jewish Bias. Now What? (Chronicle of Higher Education)
The U. of Connecticut Could Be the Next Public Flagship to Face Big Cuts (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Bipartisan Congress wants to defund colleges over legacy admissions — it’s about time (NY Post)
Penn’s legacy admissions under investigation by Education Department (Higher Ed Dive)
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