New Department of Education Student RISE Rule Hurts Education Access for Working-Class People
(Washington, D.C.) – In response to the Department of Education’s new RISE Rule, Ethan Rome, National Director of the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education, released the following statement: “We applaud the coalition of unions including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, AFT, and NNU for filing a lawsuit this week challenging the Department of Education’s new RISE […]
Trump’s New Higher Education Compact Does Nothing to Fix the College Affordability Crisis
(Washington, D.C.) – In response to the Trump administration’s new higher education Compact 2.0, Ethan Rome, National Director of the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education, released the following statement: “The Department of Education’s (ED) latest version of its failed ‘higher education compact’ is just as bad as the first. It’s a blatant ploy to […]
Trump is weaponizing the accreditation process to raise costs for students
(Washington, D.C.) – The Trump administration is waging war on colleges and universities by defunding schools, asserting authoritarian control, delegitimizing higher education, and sending ICE to terrorize campuses, hitting low-income, undocumented, and DACA students the hardest. This will have a devastating impact on students, faculty, and all the workers who make every campus work, as […]