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March 25, 2021
A Twitter thread from Amy Laitinen and Monique O. Ositelu and EdCentral posts from Iris Palmer and Ivy Love were featured in Paul Fain's "The Job" newsletter.
Amy Laitinen was having none of that. In a Tweet barrage the director of higher education policy at New America called short-term Pell “free money for programs that promise the moon and deliver poverty-level jobs or unemployment.” The former Obama White House and Education Department official said short-term Pell will be marketed to black and brown students and will “turbocharge already existing inequities in our higher ed system.”
This site pulls together critical views of short-term Pell from New America, Third Way, The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS), and other groups, including a recent brief from Monique Ositelu, a senior policy analyst with New America:
Strategies for bringing students back to two-year colleges and helping them stay enrolled include offering emergency aid, forgiving small debts, partnerships to cover tuition, no penalties for pauses in enrollment, and shifts in marketing and outreach to students, according to New America, which created a new hub for its public opinion research on higher education.
Many faculty members describe deeper relationships with students after reaching out to them virtually to talk about challenges that might prevent their academic progress, reports Achieving the Dream from conversations with community college leaders across its network.
Read the full article here.