{"id":1512603,"date":"2026-06-05T03:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512603"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T09:48:38","slug":"colleges-risk-federal-funds-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512603","title":{"rendered":"Colleges risk federal funds loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"HAWKINS \u2013 The Big, Beautiful Bill finalized a new rule requiring college programs to meet an earnings benchmark to continue receiving federal funds, which could possibly impact several colleges across East Texas. The \u2018Do No Harm\u2019 provision requires higher education institutions to demonstrate that their alumni earn wages higher than those of high school graduates. Any college that fails to meet the earnings benchmark for two of the next three years will lose access to federal loans by 2028.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Education predicts that 5% of institutions will not pass this benchmark, as small colleges that offer low-paying majors, including early childhood education, vocational trades and religious studies, are at risk, including Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins.<\/p>\n

Jarvis\u2019 Vice President of Academic Affairs, Regina Robinson, said the university has remained proactive ahead of the upcoming provision by lowering tuition to $19,000 for all students to protect them from potential loan cuts.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Do No Harm\u2019 provision will go into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAWKINS \u2013 The Big, Beautiful Bill finalized a new rule requiring college programs to meet an earnings benchmark to continue receiving federal funds, which could possibly impact several colleges across East Texas. The \u2018Do No Harm\u2019 provision requires higher education institutions to demonstrate that their alumni earn wages higher than those of high school graduates. … Continue reading Colleges risk federal funds loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1512604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 06:04:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512605,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512603\/revisions\/1512605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}