…that students should wrestle with the obdurate materials of human excellence and folly.  Mass education throws its emphasis on credentialing students for productive and prosperous careers.  The humanities occasionally lend…

…tag attached to it and student loans are presently $690 billion (roughly $25,000 per student). By contrast in 1970 Pell grants didn’t exist and student loans in the aggregate were…

…decade, have no collateral pledged, and result in a 13.4% default within three years. Why anybody would think discount-window loans and student loans should have the same interest rate has…

…the Atlantic pointed out, do wonders to attract more of the same students. Furthermore, when they do accept low-income students, many fairly prestigious colleges are comfortable loading up students with…

…promising to alter the terms of their student loans in exchange for their vote?).  Still, social conservatism is anathema to most youths, and we’re likely to see more “Julia”-like videos…

…sources of subsidy income: state government institutional subsidies; federal government grants, especially for research; governmental (mostly federal) student financial assistance; gifts by private individuals to universities; and endowment incomes. There…

…rare example of an NYU administrator whose lavish housing is not subsidized by NYU, which has handed out so many questionable loans–$72 million to 168 people. However, it does raise…

…rights of their fellow students. Not every student must be fully educated on the First Amendment. In our experience, even a single student with knowledge of free speech and the…

…those loans at a much higher rate than students in either public or private nonprofit institutions.   In 2008, 25 percent of students at for-profit colleges defaulted on their loans…

Another day, and another awful consequence of our student debt problem has come to light. The New York Fed just released data showing that growing levels of student debt have…

…old woman can be made responsible for her now-deceased husband’s loans. Since adults over the age of 40 are taking on private loans in increasing numbers, we can imagine that…

…of $25,000 per student. By extension, then, taking out student loans for school is usually worth it, right? Sometimes. But there are a few caveats to this claim. Shea is…

…$17.8 million in federal loans). In contrast, none of the students who participated in my MOOC -not the 50,000 who watched the video lectures, the 20,000 who took the quizzes,…

…by extracting the greatest revenue possible from each student, priced individually. Some students pay relatively low net prices and others pay much higher net prices, depending on the student’s academic…

…his solution — reducing aid for middle-class students to double the maximum Pell Grant award for poorer students– evinces an incomplete understanding of the problem. Higher education is expensive in…

…the form of grants or loans. According to the evidence, students are far more sensitive to changes in grant amounts than they are to changes in loans, work-study, or other…

…federally-backed student loans continued to cover the cost of student housing amidst the financial crisis. As developers try to minimize their risk during our sluggish recovery, student dorms represent a…

…available during that period would be only 1,130,000.   The Wide-ranging Consequences of Unpaid Student Loans   A third of the graduates of four-year colleges have no student loans to…

…about student debt. It is the financial background of the students attending these institutions that matter more. Indeed, the group of students with the most debt and worst default rates–students…

…President Obama’s call for additional student aid, Washington’s support for higher education is bound to wane in this period of economic exigency. Student aid is a dicey proposition organized by…

…and the government’s bias against non-traditional institutions, his proposals did not address the heart of the matter. He suggested expanding federal student aid for students enrolled in “online courses, or…

…deficit for the coming decade. The CBO scores student loans as a “net negative subsidy”; this means that student loans will bring in $35 billion less of a profit, thus…

A sign of the times: Yale, Penn, and George Washington University are now suing their former students for defaulting on their student loans. The loans in question are Perkins loans,…

…ahead, but when grants and subsidized loans are extended to less bright, less disciplined, less prepared students who are poor, the result often is academic and vocational failure as well…

…percent of 402 students surveyed took out loans of at least $1,000 for the current academic year; with only 7.2 percent having current loans of at least $4,500.  Among NYC…

…he believes Washington lacks an appreciation for technical education.  So he proposed making federally-backed student loans available to those seeking technical degrees online as well as at brick-and-mortar institutions. But…

…of foreign students to Asian and European schools and the slippage in the global rankings of American universities signal a serious decline — this at a time when higher education…

…growing number of students are graduating into low-income jobs, but with large student debts; A majority of entering full-time students at four-year schools fail to graduate in four years, and…

…for many people to maintain the standard of living they experienced growing up in their parents’ homes. Students are defaulting on their loans at an unprecedented rate, too, partly a…