Category: Education

September 18, 2023

U.S. News & World Report published its oft-criticized rankings of undergraduate colleges Monday, trumpeting methodology changes that evaluate social mobility outcomes after some institutions abandoned the product. Despite U.S. News factoring in metrics like post-college earnings, the hierarchy of top-ranked […]

July 27, 2023

The Primary Care Loan award is meant to provide low-interest loans to medical students who commit to becoming primary care practitioners for a decade after graduating. Participating medical schools must loan the program’s funding to medical students and can invest […]

July 26, 2023

The Supreme Court decision only applies to a small subset of selective colleges, as most institutions accept a majority or all of their applicants and have no need to account for race in admissions. However, even though relatively few students […]

July 18, 2023

Biden took immediate action after the Supreme Court ruled against his initial loan forgiveness plan, which would have forgiven up to $20,000 for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year. The same day the high court handed down its decision, […]

July 12, 2023

Colleges’ operating costs increased 5.2% in the 2022 fiscal year, according to Commonfund’s Higher Education Price Index, or HEPI, an inflation index created specifically for colleges. But that increase lagged behind the consumer price index, which saw a jump of […]

June 23, 2023

Policy choices like tenure and what to teach have traditionally been left to college officials. But Florida’s elected representatives “have exhibited a desire for greater involvement in the governance of state institutions.” the lawsuit says. That includes “creating new programs […]

June 20, 2023

For three decades, incarcerated students haven’t been allowed to tap into federal Pell Grants, a primary form of financial aid for low- and moderate-income borrowers. But that will change come July, when new rules take effect giving them access to […]

June 15, 2023

Colleges and public K-12 schools that shelter migrants should be ineligible for federal funding, according to a bill approved along party lines by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Tuesday evening. It will now advance to the full […]

May 30, 2023

Federal education funding and all nondefense spending would stay flat in fiscal 2024 and get a 1% increase in fiscal 2025, according to a negotiated budget deal made over the Memorial Day weekend in an effort to prevent the country […]

May 25, 2023

Policymakers across the political spectrum have expressed a desire to rework the federal student loan program, whose portfolio has ballooned to more than $1.7 trillion as college costs soared. However, they deviate on party lines on the best way to […]

May 23, 2023

Federal policymakers have negotiated for weeks over raising the debt ceiling, with Republicans insisting Democrats agree to spending cuts to secure their cooperation. However, given the likely catastrophic economic consequences of a government default, lawmakers on both sides of the […]

May 19, 2023

As competition for students heats up, colleges are struggling financially just to maintain the status quo, according to the report, which didn’t provide a precise definition of non-elite institutions. “Across the globe, universities are selling non-core assets or shrinking their […]

May 15, 2023

DeSantis, who is eyeing a 2024 presidential campaign and is widely considered to be a frontrunner if he declares, castigated university diversity programs as discriminatory in a Monday news conference at New College. “What this concept of DEI has been […]

May 11, 2023

In March, President Joe Biden issued his spending plan, which conservatives immediately declared dead on arrival. While the budget proposal has no chance of passing Congress as drafted, it signals the administration’s education priorities. That includes sending $2.7 billion to […]

April 12, 2023

The Education Department stunned the higher ed world in February when it said it intended to vastly expand what it considers a third-party servicer, which are subject to more stringent regulatory requirements, like compliance auditing. The policy drew so much […]

April 4, 2023

Republican lawmakers nationwide have taken aim at colleges’ diversity efforts, with an eye on banning them at public institutions. Such is the case in Florida, South Carolina and Oklahoma. Conservatives have alleged DEIA programs have broken from their original intent […]

March 22, 2023

A plan by House Republican leaders to trim funding across government agencies would have a “very real and damaging” impact on families, communities and the economy, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has told Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Rep. Rosa […]

March 21, 2023

The New England Commission of Higher Education, or NECHE, said in January it intended to nix Bay State’s accreditation. But the for-profit institution, which has grappled with years of enrollment declines and a ballooning budget deficit, said it intended to […]

March 1, 2023

A few U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that a band of Republican-controlled states and two borrowers have the right to sue to overturn the Biden administration’s plan to forgive broad amounts of federal student loan debt. Whether that […]

February 28, 2023

A few U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that a band of Republican-controlled states and two borrowers have the right to sue to overturn the Biden administration’s plan to forgive broad amounts of federal student loan debt. Whether that […]