Colleges would get money to teach first-year students important skills for success.
This bill would create a new federal grant program to help colleges offer "skills-for-success" courses to all first-year students. These courses would teach things like time management, mental wellbeing, and coping with stress. Colleges that serve many students receiving federal Pell Grants would get priority for these funds.
Today, colleges decide on their own whether to offer skills-for-success courses and how to fund them. If this bill passes, the Department of Education would set aside $50 million to pay for a new 5-year grant program, helping colleges create and offer these courses to all first-year students, with a focus on specific topics like mental wellbeing and time management.
HR 1409 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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