Lawmakers are challenging the administration’s plan to move student aid operations to the Treasury Department, arguing the change could create legal and operational problems. The administration says the shift would strengthen oversight of the federal student loan portfolio.

Faculty and administrators have redesigned developmental education, built guided pathways that put students at the center of their institutions, and launched strategies to improve early momentum results so that institutions and students know if they are on track to completion.

President Sarah Wisdom says her experience overseeing K12 budgets, staffing and student outcomes offers a rare but timely perspective for a small college.