House Holds Hearing Focused on Lowering Higher Education Costs for Students
Maria Carrasco
November 19, 2025
The House Education & Workforce Committee met on Tuesday to discuss how innovative technologies and initiatives in higher education could be used to lower costs to students and families.
The hearing touched on multiple technologies and initiatives done through institutions and states, and included dual enrollment, course sharing, and artificial intelligence (AI), some of which students currently use, or could use in the future, to access and complete postsecondary education.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chair of the House Education & Workforce Committee, stressed the importance of innovation in higher education in his opening remarks, noting that roughly 61% of first-time students earn a degree within six years, and completion rates are even lower for non-traditional and part-time students.
