Both the House and Senate made changes to program affecting student benefits and higher education finance that could affect cost and access. The House and the Senate have passed different versions of President Trump's tax reform bill so now it goes to a conference committee.
The new immigration legislation faces an uphill battle. If it does become law, it will mark the end of a beleaguered but beloved programme that has brought more than a million people to America to become citizens.
Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, author and journalist Moustafa Bayoumi says, the U.S. government and media-at-large have widely branded Muslims at home and abroad as terrorists.
They don't mean to sound ungrateful, but ... New York public college students who would stand to gain from the nation's most ambitious free-tuition proposal are quick to point out a sobering reality from their own meager finances: Free tuition doesn't mean free college. Take Brooklyn College senior Florencia Salinas, who despite having her tuition nearly covered in full through scholarships and grants, still expects to graduate with a daunting $50,000 in debt.
Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury who has specialized in investigative reporting for 45 years. He is the host of the TV program "Enviro Close-Up," the writer and presenter of numerous TV documentaries and the author of six books.
Rockaway Beach: Brooklyn College Professor Ron Howell's Op-Ed was a bunch of nonsense. Are progressive liberals now mind readers? Are their thoughts of what another person may, or may not be thinking, now considered fact? What makes it acceptable for African-Americans to vote 95% for a black man, largely in part because he's black, but simply ruled an act of racism for whites who voted for Donald Trump? Which by the way, are some of the very same whites who pulled the lever for Obama - twice! Howell states that it was the educated whites as well as the ignorant ones who voted for a race-baiter.