On March 11, 2021, the American Recovery Plan (ARP) was signed into law. The act provides more than $39.6 billion in emergency support to higher education, including public, private nonprofit, and proprietary institutions and their students. Building on the structure of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has designated these additional higher education support funds under the ARP as “HEERF III.”