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Are you meeting students’ basic needs?

EAB

Like many of our students, I was a first gen, low-income college student who had periods of housing, food, and transportation insecurity. I remember working food service jobs so it would be easier to eat, needing to move constantly as rent got too high, and scrounging to afford my bus pass.

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Omnibus Bill Offers Financial Boosts, Compromises

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

trillion omnibus federal spending bill that was signed right before Christmas by President Joe Biden, are funding provisions and policy changes that impact the world of higher education. The omnibus bill raised it by $500—far from what Biden had asked for, but still the largest increase in over a decade.