Biden Administration Extends Attack on the Free Market in New Rules on Student Debt
The Daily Signal Adam Kissel August 11, 2022 Instead of addressing the college debt crisis, the Biden administration has proposed new rules designed to punish for-profit colleges and stick taxpayers with billions of dollars in debt forgiveness. Taxpayers deserve accountability from the Department of Education, not carrots and sticks that interfere with […]
Senate Passes Bill to Restore 85-15 Rule
Inside Higher Ed Meghan Brink August 11, 2022 The Senate passed a bipartisan bill that clarifies an exception to the 85-15 rule, a law that requires colleges to enroll at least 15 percent of students who are not veterans that receive federal military funding to pay for college in each academic program offered. […]
Biden’s New Student Loan Rule Would Make Even Non-College-Educated Taxpayers Responsible for Billions in College Debt
Real Clear Education Gerard Scimeca August 11, 2022 Most Americans have been conditioned to accept some level of incompetence and inefficiency from government – but not to the extent that federal employees paid by our tax dollars simply admit that they are fundamentally incapable of doing their jobs. Yet shockingly, […]
Survey: 66% of adults say college doesn’t meet needs of today’s students
Higher Ed Dive Lilah Burke August 4, 2022 Dive Brief: Adults across party lines are concerned about the high tuition, student debt and time commitments they associate with getting a college education, according to polling results released in July by Public Agenda, a nonprofit research organization. Two-thirds of respondents said they see […]
Judge Gives Preliminary Approval of Borrower-Defense Settlement
Inside Higher Ed Meghan Brink August 5, 2022 A federal judge said Thursday he will give preliminary approval to a settlement deal for a years-long lawsuit against the Education Department that would automatically cancel $6 billion in student debt owed by nearly 200,000 borrowers who say they were defrauded by their […]
More Californians Than in the Past Go Elsewhere for College
Inside Higher Ed Scott Jaschik August 5, 2022 Almost 40,000 Californians left the state for higher education in 2020, a 27 percent increase from 2010 in the number of California freshmen going outside the state, The Sacramento Bee reported. The Bee, based on Education Department data, reported about 16,500 students came from other states […]
Biden’s proposed Title IX rule almost certain to find itself in legal crosshairs
Higher Ed Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf August 1, 2022 A recent federal court decision blocking Education Department guidance on the anti-discrimination law portends trouble for the administration. Legal experts weren’t surprised last month when a federal judge in Tennessee temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing, in some parts […]
ED’s Proposed Borrower Defense Rule: Comment Toolkit for Institutions
Thompson Coburn LLP July 13, 2022 On July 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education published its proposed revisions to the borrower defense to repayment (BDR) rule in the Federal Register. This proposed rule applies to all institutions of higher education participating in the Title IV federal financial aid programs. Elements […]
White and youth population losses contributed most to the nation’s growth slowdown, new census data reveals
Brookings William H. Frey August 1,2022 Previous analyses of Census Bureau estimates make plain that the nation’s population growth has ground down to a historic low: only 0.1% growth between July 2020 and July 2021. During this prime year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of deaths rose sharply, births declined, […]