Trump’s Accreditation Crackdown Begins
…How that will play out for monopoly accreditors, as noted above, is unclear. Federal law still requires accreditation approval for Pell Grants, student loans, and other government monies. This could…
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Reform Federal Student Lending!
…the student loan business for college students, and the creation of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). But if forced to choose, I would say the student loan program is…
Educators Should Help Their Students With These Three Key Financial Concerns
…are three financial considerations that university students could benefit from understanding. Student Loans and Other Funding Options For many students, access to higher education is made possible through a private…
Columbia Complied—Its Capitulation Proves Universities Are Addicted to Federal Money
…independent, BE INDEPENDENT! The point was made by the WSJ: Almost all schools—public and private—depend on the U.S. government for access to federal student loans and grants for low-income students….
Trump Expected to Sign Executive Order to Eliminate the Department of Education, but the Reform Effort May Be Short-Lived
…have stirred fears that essential funding could be at risk, the ED has assured that all programs under its jurisdiction—including Pell Grants, student loans, and special education—will remain fully funded….
A Private Student Loan System Should Not Mirror the Federal Family Education Loan Program
Shifting student loans from the current government-as-lender model to the private market would be beneficial. As I recently reported, this shift would reduce malinvestment—educational spending that doesn’t justify its costs—while…
Think Twice Before Attacking the Department of Education
…fund federal student loans. A whopping $179 billion was granted in federal student loans in the 2024 Fiscal Year, representing nearly three-quarters of the ED budget. The ED does not,…
A Guide to Digging Up the ED’s Statutory Roots
…disbursing Pell Grants to disadvantaged postsecondary students, and granting direct student loans to postsecondary students—and eliminate or relocate to other federal departments virtually every other program. The Legislative Guide identifies…
Linda McMahon Confirmed as Education Secretary
…the Small Business Administration (SBA) during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2019. At the SBA, McMahon prioritized modernization, cutting red tape, and expanding access to loans and disaster relief….
Accreditation Protects the Status Quo—It’s Time for Drastic Reform
…accreditor approval do not have access to federal financial aid programs like Pell Grants and student loans. But accreditation is broken. As I lay out in a new report, Should…
Ohio Congressman Introduces HEAT Act to Hold Elite Colleges Accountable for Rising Tuition and Endowment Misuse
…and private donations. However, they still benefit from federal funding indirectly, as federal student aid, such as grants and loans, is directed to private colleges when students pay their tuition…
Manipulation and Indoctrination in Counseling Education
…and a professor would assign it as required reading. As with any graduate program, the students would be paying for this instruction through loans or possibly some other type of…
Staying Out of Debt: A Guide for Recent Graduates
…let this chance slip you by. [RELATED: On Personal Finance] Deal with Your Existing Debts Almost every college student graduates with some debt, whether it’s student loans or a credit…
Want to Fix the Culture? Start by Reforming Counseling Accreditation
…unless we actively move to prevent it. [RELATED: Don’t Let Colleges Keep Ducking Accountability on Student Loans] Psychology as a Cultural Weapon The DSM listings are not just a matter…
American Thinkers Must Mind the Campus
…the law. The program is now open to all students. We also document and support reforms on student loans, continuing to call on Congress to get the feds’ hands out…
Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration
…[on default rates] beyond what any commercial lender would tolerate.” Subsequent ceiling increases followed, and, by the early ’90s, default rates exceeded 30 percent for student loans made to some…
Shakeups A’Coming
…bidder. Campuses should be prioritizing opportunities for American students. And if losing out on foreign student tuition dollars forces schools to dig into their endowments, so be it. [RELATED: Higher…
Republicans Stand on the Brink of a Historic Opportunity to End Government’s Role in Student Loans
…Loans] But the Biden Administration’s Overreach on Student Loans Has Created an Opportunity to Make the Transition But the Biden administration has reversed that. By forgiving massive amounts of student…
Farewell Joe, Farewell
…as hallmarks of his presidency. He said nothing about the re-weaponization of Title IX through the Department of Education. He was silent on myriad attempts to cancel debt from student…
Higher Education Reforms Could Finance Half a Trillion Dollars in a Reconciliation Bill
…reform and reduce federal spending are student loans and campus-based aid programs. Student Loans ($212+ billion over ten years) The juiciest target for cuts are student loans. The government…
Cheers to the New Year
…for helping to perpetrate the student loan crisis by making them have equal skin in the game—i.e., “co-sign loans and therefore assume equal risk with students before they get any…
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
…aid families with college students.” Previously limited to generally low-income students, the new law provided some assistance to students from families with incomes of nearly $100,000 annually—comfortably above the median…
Federal Student Loans Drive Up College Tuition Levels
…bank loans, not federal government loans. Students applied directly to banks for these loans, which the federal government guaranteed against default, and paid the interest while students were enrolled full-time…
Don’t Let Colleges Keep Ducking Accountability on Student Loans
Most of the problems with student loans are due to a misalignment of incentives. There are three parties to a student loan: the student, the lender—meaning the federal government because…
Highlights from the College Board’s Trends Papers
…trends in student loans are diverging a bit—subsidized and unsubsidized loans are down markedly from their peak, while Grad PLUS has been growing. Another revealing graphic shows the number of…
NAS Welcomes Administrator McMahon’s Nomination to Serve as Education Secretary
…education. America must change the financial system’s economic incentives: above all, colleges should assume partial responsibility for student loans. We urge Secretary McMahon to ask Congress to reform the Higher…
Bootstraps and Bedlam Take Over Higher Ed
…students who were “too distressed” by the election. Not to be outdone, Harvard’s campus remains in turmoil, with faculty and law students staging “study-ins” reading George Orwell’s 1984 while brandishing…
Is Accreditation a Scam? The System Fueling Ideology in Higher Ed
…tremendously wealthy. Increasingly, students are seen as customers and future donating alumni. This educational environment is a banquet for wolves, with the students served up as the main course. Other…
The Next President Should . . .
…loan borrowers to discharge student loans in bankruptcy and require institutions they attended to accept 50 percent of the student’s outstanding loan responsibility. Protect the rights of students and professors….
End Woke Act Hits Snag in Democrat-Controlled Senate
…Heterodox Academy on account of its efforts to protect universities, faculty, students, protesters, and student organizations from a wide array of political litmus tests. The first part of the bill,…