<div dir="ltr">FYI.<div>Allen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mchatfield@alaska.edu">mchatfield@alaska.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:41 PM<br>Subject: ASEE Conference date - Now 26-29 July 2021<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:mchatfield@alaska.edu">mchatfield@alaska.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div bgcolor="#EEEEEE" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_5714943471689975345WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello All –<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In case you haven’t yet seen, this year’s ASEE Annual Conference in Long Beach has been postponed until 26-29 July 2021. (See highlighted text below and ASEE Conference Website). A final decision as to whether the event will be conducted physically or virtually will be made late May.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Coinciding with the event delay, our draft manuscripts have also been delayed 1 month. The new dates for draft manuscripts to be submitted is <b>8 March</b><b>/</b><b>23:59 EST</b>.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please see the website for additional dates and details.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">2021 ASEE Aerospace Division Program Chair<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Michael C. Hatfield<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:gray">Assistant Professor,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">Associate Director for Education,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">  Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">University of Alaska Fairbanks<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:mchatfield@alaska.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563c1">mchatfield@alaska.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">C: 907.987.2610<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="73" height="57" style="width:.7604in;height:.5937in" id="m_5714943471689975345Picture_x0020_70" src="cid:1773c2645e04cff311"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> ASEE <<a href="mailto:FirstBell@asee.bulletinmedia.com" target="_blank">FirstBell@asee.bulletinmedia.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2021 3:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mchatfield@alaska.edu" target="_blank">mchatfield@alaska.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Experts Say Electric Vehicles Nearing "Tipping Point" Of Mass Adoption<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">If you are unable to see the message or images below, <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63" target="_blank">click here to view</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div align="center"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="768" style="width:8.0in;background:white;border:solid white 1.0pt"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 5.25pt 15.0pt"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=000-7e6&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="728" height="130" style="width:7.5833in;height:1.3541in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1093" src="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=000-fe6&t=o" alt="Please add FirstBell@asee.bulletinmedia.com to your address book"></span></a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=001-c9a&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="476" heigh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n"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <b><i>Electric Delivery Vans Have A Market With Amazon, Others. </i></b>The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=00e-221&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Wall Street Journal</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=00f-913&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1087" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=010-c3a&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1086" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Wilmot, Subscription Publication) reported that while people may associate electric vehicles with Tesla, delivery vehicles for online orders may be a more financially beneficial use of electric transport. Amazon “ordered 100,000 electric vans from Rivian, the first of them due later this year.” UPS, DHL, and FedEx also need electric trucks for deliveries to meet their carbon-emission goals. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <b><i>EVgo Set To Take Its EV Charging Business Public. </i></b><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=011-d0d&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Reuters</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=012-6e6&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1085" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=013-6cd&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1084" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22) reported that EVgo, the largest fast charging public network in the country, announced Friday that “it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check firm Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corp” with the deal putting EVgo’s value at $2.6 billion. EVgo operates “more than 800 fast-charging locations across 34 U.S. states, catering to over 220,000 customers,” and works with automakers including GM, BMW, and Nissan, and also ride-hailing company Uber. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <b><i>Cobalt Prices Soar As EVs Continue To Proliferate. </i></b>The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=014-fa7&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Wall Street Journal</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=015-df6&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1083" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=016-e4c&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1082" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Jie, Subscription Publication) reports a 20% increase in the price of cobalt since the beginning of 2021 shows how the rapid expansion of the electric vehicle industry is putting stress on global supply chains. Cobalt is needed for many types of batteries, including those in electric vehicles, and its journey from mines in Africa to processing centers in China to battery makers “has several choke points that make it vulnerable to disruption.” As a result of rising prices, car and battery makers have been looking to assert more control over their cobalt supplies and even abandon the metal altogether. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #cccccc 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 4.0pt 0in"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_Shigher_education"></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0071bd;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.75pt">Higher Education<u></u><u></u></span></h2></div><div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:22.5pt"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left" style="background:white;border:solid white 4.5pt;margin-right:3.75pt"><tbody><tr><td style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_loosybzkqmz"></a><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777"><img border="0" width="51" height="10" style="width:.5312in;height:.1041in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1081" src="https://cdn.bulletinmedia.com/a/a_51x10.gif" alt="Advertisement"></span><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border:none;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=017-1b7&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="300" height="250" style="width:3.125in;height:2.6041in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1080" src="https://cdn.bulletinmedia.com/a/310/32310/0cctob1e.jpeg?2021012501asee;6876091-bc63;519172;ao" alt="Advertisement"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#777777"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S2"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Colleges Begin To Reopen In-Person Amid Pandemic<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=018-5b5&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">USA Today</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=019-2c8&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1079" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=01a-847&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1078" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Quintana) reports that college campus leaders “hoped the lessons from the fall would better position them for the spring semester.” That was “before a post-holiday winter surge pushed the number of COVID-19 deaths in America over 400,000.” Now, “returning student populations may be at even greater risk than they were in the fall – not to mention their surrounding communities, where research has suggested greater outbreaks in college towns.” Despite those concerns, “colleges are pushing ahead.” The stakes are high; “enrollment plummeted at most colleges last semester, and the loss of income from in-person services like campus housing and dining could be devastating to schools that depend on that money.” College towns “would feel the economic pinch as well.” However, “when administrators talk about the need for reopening, they focus on what went well in the fall – and the advantages of the full university experience.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S3"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3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:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S5"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Faculty Criticizing University Of Florida For Requiring Return To Classrooms While Students Can Learn Remotely<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=021-b3b&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Washington Post</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=022-8b9&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1073" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=023-8c0&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1072" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/23, Beachum) reports faculty and staff at the University of Florida “have been at odds with school leaders since the start of the year over increasing its number of in-person classes to appease students who want face-to-face learning.” According to the Post, “Instructors are troubled that administrators could be more concerned about financial impacts than science and health as denials for American Disabilities Act accommodations rolled in against a backdrop of the campus’s safety app that now has a feature allowing students to report an instructor for not showing up to class and warnings against protesting.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S6"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">DOJ Mulling Amnesty Program For US Academics To Divulge Foreign Funding<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Citing individuals familiar with the situation, the <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=024-802&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Wall Street Journal</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=025-098&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1071" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=026-cfc&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1070" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Korn, Viswanatha, Subscription Publication) reported in an exclusive that the Justice Department is mulling an amnesty program that would enable US academics to divulge foreign funding and not have to worry about being punished over their disclosures. Since 2019, federal prosecutors have brought more than dozen criminal cases accusing academics of lying about their ties to the Chinese government. <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S7"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Colorado Bill Would Make College Test-Optional Policies Permanent<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=027-896&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Higher Ed Dive</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=028-d88&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1069" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=029-8d6&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1068" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22) reported that “two Colorado state lawmakers plan to introduce a bill removing a requirement that public colleges there use a national assessment test score, such as from the ACT or SAT, as an admissions criteria, according to the office of one of the bill’s sponsors.” The lawmakers “said making the scores optional would improve access to higher education, while critics felt it would eliminate an important college readiness standard, Chalkbeat reported.” State institutions largely “support the measure, the publication noted.” Many colleges “put a moratorium on their requirement that applicants submit test scores in light of the pandemic.” However, “bigger moves by key states stand to make a longer-lasting impact.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S8"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">More State Lawmakers Push For Legislation Requiring High School Seniors To Complete Financial-Aid Applications<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02a-8d2&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Wall Street Journal</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02b-635&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1067" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02c-928&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1066" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/23, Korn, Subscription Publication) reports that lawmakers in at about eight states are beginning to push for legislation that would require high-school seniors to complete federal or state financial-aid applications before they can graduate. <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S9"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Opinion: Forgiving Student Loans Won’t Solve Higher Education Funding Crisis<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">In an opinion piece in The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02d-185&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Washington Post</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02e-954&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1065" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=02f-b47&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1064" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Shermer), Loyola University Chicago associate professor of history Elizabeth Tandy Shermer wrote, “Senate Democrats asked for an executive order forgiving $50,000 in debt, but instead the new president instructed the Education Department to extend the ongoing, interest-free pause on federal student loans.” However, Tandy writes, “Yet, neither that ongoing deferment nor partial forgiveness will be enough. Until politicians at the state and federal level rethink how we fund higher education, students and parents will remain trapped in increasing amounts of debt, exacerbating inequality, even as colleges and universities cut programs and even close.” She concludes, “Massive forgiveness, while beneficial, would not solve the bigger problem: the need for a fundamental restructuring of college financing and government support for higher education. Without such a change, college costs will continue to increase.” <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style="border:none;padding:0in 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt"><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border:solid white 1.0pt"><tbody><tr><td style="border:solid #0071bd 6.0pt;background:#0071bd;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:white">From ASEE<u></u><u></u></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td style="border:solid #eeeeee 6.0pt;background:#eeeeee;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"><p><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">ASEE's Research Leadership Institute, Feb. 9, Mar. 9, Apr. 13, and May 11. FREE <br></span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Organized by the Engineering Research Council, this event supports and enhances research in engineering, technology, computing, and applied science in educational organizations. The February 9 session focuses on challenges facing research leadership. ERC Board members share their experiences and participants will interact in breakout groups. <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=030-12e&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Register here</span></a>.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="color:black"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">ASEE Annual Conference Update</span></b><span style="color:black;background:yellow"><br></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">The 2021 <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=031-0f4&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">ASEE Annual Conference</span></a> will be held in-person July 26-29, in Long Beach, CA. </span><span style="background:yellow"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">We opted to move our signature event later in the summer from our normal June date, hoping July offers reason to be optimistic, giving us another month for the vaccine to be distributed. And of course, ASEE looks forward to providing a venue to safely meet face-to-face. The opportunities to network and to spend time with colleagues and friends is invaluable...and greatly missed by us all! </span><span style="background:yellow"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">ASEE will follow all CDC recommendations, including masks and social distancing, and conference facilities will comply with state requirements in terms of masks and sanitizing.</span><span style="background:yellow"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">Obviously our plans may change depending on Covid circumstances. Should California still be “closed” due to the pandemic this summer (such that its restrictions make holding an in-person conference unfeasible), we will revisit the conference at the end of May and determine if a virtual meeting would be more appropriate.</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u> <u></u></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td style="border:none;padding:0in 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt"><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #cccccc 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 4.0pt 0in"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_Sresearch_and_develop"></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0071bd;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.75pt">Research and Development<u></u><u></u></span></h2></div><div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:22.5pt"><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S10"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">SpaceX Launches 143 Satellites Atop Falcon 9 Rocket<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=032-819&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">CBS News</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=033-c66&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1063" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=034-e34&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1062" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/24, Harwood) reports that on Sunday, SpaceX launched 143 small satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter 1 mission. The mission, which launched at 10 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, was delayed a day due to weather conditions. The “143 satellites atop the second stage were the most ever launched by a single rocket, eclipsing the previous 104-satellite mark set by India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in February 2017.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=035-4a9&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Spaceflight Now</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=036-03f&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1061" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=037-9ee&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1060" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/24, Clark) reports that the Falcon 9’s “reusable first stage booster – flying for the fifth time – landed on SpaceX’s ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Miami nearly 10 minutes after liftoff.” SpaceX “said it also retrieved the rocket’s payload fairing halves after they parachuted back to Earth in the Atlantic.” Sunday’s launch “carried payloads for Planet, Swarm Technologies, Kepler Communications, Spire, Capella Space, ICEYE, NASA, and a host of other customers from 11 countries. The payloads ranged in size from CubeSats to microsatellites weighing several hundred pounds.” <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=038-e4d&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Reuters</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=039-70f&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1059" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=03a-077&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1058" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/24, Coster) reports that the mission also included 10 SpaceX Starlink satellites. <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S11"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">University Of Louisiana-Lafayette Students Design Mini-Satellite To Detect Radiation In Space<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m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a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Johnsson) reported that The Boeing Company has “set a target of designing and certifying its jetliners to fly on 100% sustainable fuels by 2030 amid rising pressure on planemakers to get serious about climate change.” Boeing “said sustainable fuels can be made from inedible plants, agricultural and forestry waste, nonrecyclable household waste and gases released by industrial products. Boeing cited studies showing that emissions could be cut by 80% over a sustainable fuel’s life cycle, with the potential to some day reach 100%.” Regulators “currently allow a 50-50 blend of sustainable and conventional fuels, and Boeing said Friday it would work with authorities to raise the limit.” Airbus “is considering another tack: a futuristic lineup of hydrogen-powered aircraft that would reach the skies by 2035.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        Additional coverage by <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04a-944&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Aviation International News</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04b-6d1&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1047" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04c-524&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1046" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Polek). <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S15"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Waymo Looks To Do No Harm With Self-Driving Tech<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04d-816&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Phoenix (AZ) Magazine</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04e-88e&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1045" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=04f-430&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1044" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/21, Rutherford) reported on the potential of autonomous vehicles for those who are unable to drive, including “the blind, the disabled, the mentally vulnerable,” and how this tech can impact both public health and security while keeping in mind “whether AV technology actually makes roads safer.” One company evolving to meet this challenge is Waymo, which operates its commercial autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo One in the Phoenix metro area, with the cars fully autonomous since late 2020, “an exciting leap forward for the blind and other nondrivers.” Max Ashton, a blind Phoenix resident, said AV services like Waymo are “life changing” and offer a “step of independence.” Other companies working on self-driving car tech include GM, Cruise, Zoox, and of course Tesla. Waymo COO Tekedra Mawakana said, “Our goal is to responsibly test and deploy technology that removes the common causes of human error, and through continuous refinement, will increasingly improve safety.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S16"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">GE Wins $20 Million Federal Grant To Develop New Wind Turbine Generators<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=050-972&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Albany Times Union</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=051-cff&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1043" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=052-6c0&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1042" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/21, Rulison) reports, “The federal government is betting $20.3 million that General Electric Co. can turn an MRI machine used in hospitals into a renewable energy powerhouse.” The “Department of Energy’s Wind Technologies Office recently awarded the grant to a team of engineers and scientists at GE Research in Niskayuna in hopes that they can take superconducting magnet technology from MRI machines and use it in the generators that create electricity in large industrial wind turbines that GE makes.” The article added, “GE is a major wind turbine manufacturer and has built the world’s largest wind turbine called the Haliade-X, which can power a whole village on its own. The company makes steam turbines and generators for traditional power plants.” <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid #cccccc 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 4.0pt 0in"><h2 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_Sengineering_and_publ"></a><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0071bd;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.75pt">Engineering and Public Policy<u></u><u></u></span></h2></div><div style="margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:22.5pt"><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S17"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Biden: Student Loan Freeze Could Go Beyond September<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=053-e90&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Bloomberg</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=054-13b&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1041" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=055-ce0&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1040" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22, Nasiripour) reports President Joe Biden, shortly after his inauguration, asked the Education Department to “extend his predecessor’s pandemic policy of waiving interest and to continue letting borrowers skip monthly payments on government-owned student loans until at least the end of September.” According to <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=056-1da&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">Forbes</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=057-472&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1039" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=058-afc&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1038" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/22) contributor Adam Minsky, Biden said on Friday, “We may have to look beyond” the Sept. 30 extension, depending on the state of the economy and the pandemic. The Biden Administration also confirmed “that the extended freeze will continue to qualify borrowers for key student loan forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), as well as federal student loan rehabilitation programs for borrowers in default.” <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=059-ec9&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">US News & World Report</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05a-a72&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1037" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05b-0f2&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1036" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/21) also provided coverage. <u></u><u></u></span></p><h3 style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in"><a name="m_5714943471689975345_S18"></a><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Federal Student Loan Relief May Take A While<u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05c-020&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0071bd">CNBC</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05d-ac2&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1035" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_facebook_16x14.png" alt="Share to Facebook"></span></a><a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05e-903&t=c" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="16" height="14" style="width:.1666in;height:.1458in" id="m_5714943471689975345_x0000_i1034" src="https://cdn.bulletinintelligence.com/c/common/icon_twitter_16x14.png" alt="Share to Twitter"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (1/23, Nova) reports President Joe Biden said at a press conference in late November that student loan borrowers are “in real trouble” and they have to choose “between paying their student loan and paying the rent, those kinds of decisions.” But there is no mention of cancelling any student debt in his Administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package unveiled this month. Higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz “said Biden’s Covid relief plan focuses on the most pressing issues of the public health crisis, and that debt cancellation will likely come later,” perhaps by late summer. Considering the tight margin in the Senate, passing such legislation “may be difficult,” so some Democrats are pressing Biden to immediately forgive $50,00 per borrower. Biden, however, said he’d be “unlikely” to cancel $50,000 for student loan debt for all borrowers on his own. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">        <b><i>Schumer And Warren: Student Debt Forgiveness Helps Senior Citizens, Too. </i></b>In a <a href="https://mailview.bulletinmedia.com/mailview.aspx?m=2021012501asee&r=6876091-bc63&l=05f-cc2&t=c" target="_blank"><span styl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