May 7, 2025
The House GOP's Student Success Plan tackles bloated college costs and debt with repayment reform, school accountability, and loan caps—but deeper change is still needed.
December 3, 2024
Higher ed is changing quickly. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity.
February 14, 2024
The College Cost Reduction Act is a decent starting point to address escalating costs in American higher education, but it is not a home run.
January 30, 2024
How the House Republicans’ most recent higher education plan might be a step in the right direction.
August 22, 2023
Overspending and financial mismanagement, not state disinvestment, has caused college tuition increases.
September 15, 2021
Student debt forgiveness doesn't resolve the problem of skyrocketing tuition.
March 30, 2020
Students are demanding tuition refunds, but university administrators argue that students are still receiving their degree value. Which is it?
March 6, 2020
These schools serve only a fraction of Americans, but they raise $44B a year through endowments and guzzle mightily from the federal trough.
March 3, 2020
President Trump recently unveiled his 2021 budget proposal, which contains a number of regulations designed to curb the student debt crisis.
October 21, 2019
Administrative bloat and extraneous spending by colleges and universities are draining the American middle class while enriching administrators and politicians.