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Everything you need to know for Monday and the week ahead about higher ed and the coronavirus in one easy-to-read package (with some distractions to help your sanity). Plus, a special Q&A with a student about what life is like in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education Department has been criticized for excluding DACA students from stimulus emergency grants. But financial aid administrators say even more students are left out.

University of California and Cal State say they will give emergency grants to DACA students, after education secretary excluded them from the stimulus bill.

Stimulus funds will help black colleges whose resources were stretched thin responding to the pandemic.

Holes in the formula to divvy up coronavirus stimulus funds to higher education left institutions that serve the most needy students underresourced, experts say.

As colleges struggle with the financial cost of the pandemic, beauty schools are getting $160 million in higher education stimulus dollars.

Undocumented students dealing with campus closures are not eligible for emergency stimulus grants, the Education Department said.

Everything you need to know for Wednesday about higher ed and the coronavirus in one easy-to-read package (with some distractions to help your sanity).