Higher Ed Watch

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Happy Holidays

Published: December 22, 2009

Higher Ed Watch will be taking a break from publishing until Jan. 5. Happy Holidays to all and we'll see you in 2010.

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Forecasting the Pell Grant Budget Crisis

For the past several years, Higher Ed Watch writer Jason Delisle, director of New America’s Federal Education Budget Project, has sounded the alarms about the Pell Grant budget crisis that is now all over the news. Because of his detailed knowledge of the federal budget, Delisle was among the first student aid experts in the country to warn that a day of reckoning was coming. Here are some highlights of Delisle’s past coverage:

Coming Up Short on Pell Grants, September 26, 2008

Pell Grant Budget Mess, February 19, 2009

Pell Grants: It’s Not the Shortfall, It’s the Funding, December 10, 2009

Pell Grant Emergency Seals Student Loan Reform Deal, March 19, 2010

Pell Grant Maneuver Aims to Placate Budget Hawks, May 25, 2010

Exclusive: Budget Rule Jeopardizes Supplemental Pell Grant Funds, June 15, 2010

Senate Democrats Shortchange the Pell Grant, September 9, 2010

Counting Pell Grant Chickens Before They Hatch, December 22, 2010

Breaking News: CBO Says Pell Grant Costs Still Rising, January 26, 2011

The Real Cause of Pell Grant Cost Increases, March 8, 2011