Miller, Ben2020-05-182020-05-182020-05-11http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98434At $14 billion, the investment in operating support for higher education institutions from the coronavirus relief bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, is the largest one-year federal infusion of funds going straight to colleges since the Great Recession.1 That includes $6.2 billion each for institutional support and emergency financial aid for college students; $1 billion for minority-serving institutions; and about $350 million for colleges most affected by the pandemic. This report aims to explore ways of increasing, improving, and accelerating funding for higher education in the next stimulus package.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationaleducation, higher--government policycoronavirus crisishigher education fundingReporthttps://cdn.americanprogress.org/content/uploads/2020/05/08131430/CARESact-brief.pdf