Money could be used to boost counseling, fix remedial education, modernize systems for reenrolling students, ease transfers or help students through a financial emergency.
Equity comes down to fifth-graders for Fernando Figueroa, the president of Gateway Community & Technical College in Kentucky. There are several things they need to understand about their potential, he says.
Hopefully, many higher education institutions will use these funds to invest in indoor air quality projects. When they do, it is important that they invest wisely.
Now that life is returning to some level of "normal," the government could again start requiring millions of poor students to prove they would struggle to pay for college themselves.
