State Higher Education Executive Officers in Higher Education Student Leaders Talk Policy with Arne

Higher Education Student Leaders Talk Policy with Arne

The State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) meeting in Washington D.C., on high-level strategies and ideas. However, not too  there was a lesser-known meeting between Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and 17 college student leaders from across the country the students were comprised of State Boards of Education representatives, state-wide student government association presidents, an industrial engineering major and Student Government Association President at West Virginia University, and Alice Schneider, a senior at Texas A&M College Station and a student representative on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

The meeting dialogue and policy recommendations was astounding, when he was the students age I wasn’t thinking about these complex policy issues. We need these innovative and creative ideas that students design.Ensure work study correlates to a student’s concentration area or public service.
As ED looks to make college more affordable,students to attend college tuition-free and debt-free but sign a contract pledging to pay to the State of Oregon or their institution a set percentage of their income for a set number of years.

Federal financial aid is disbursed, because many students are looking at school year round especially during the summers.disburse payouts in a two weekly format rather than a lump sum, because students can better manage their funds in small installments.towards the end of the session,Department of Education Senior Policy Advisor Leigh Arsenault when she probed further about ways to personalize the FAFSA. student at Towson University suggested, Change the way FAFSA is calculated specifically look into ways of personalizing the form to include other metrics that are attached to an IRS form, suggest that ED could look into using IRS information to tailor a personalized holistic view of a person’s true economic value and their financial need.

The students were energized and looked to keep the dialogue going, and Duncan relayed his commitment to having student voices integrated into the policy dialogue at the Department of Education.



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