Regardless of who wins the presidential election, higher ed faces an age of heightened accountability. But a Biden Administration would likely put funding to behind potential new regulations.
While colleges and universities may get assistance from another COVID relief package, there may also be momentum to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.
Test optional colleges could be creating additional inequities for students with poor socio-economic backgrounds and could even be forcing more testing on students if done improperly.
College and university leaders must be nimble and open to disruptive, outside-the-box systems thinking—now and in a post-pandemic world, says UB Future Shock columnist James E. Samels.
Congress should establish a fund to reimburse colleges and universities directly for the refunds they issue to students due to COVID-19, says UB guest columnist Jonathan Krasno, a professor from Binghamton University State University of New York.
UB guest columnists Julie Miceli and Anne D. Cartwright address the three-phase U.S. stimulus program and break down how that support will arrive on campus.
The student debt crisis—despite dire warnings from the media—is not as bad as it is portrayed, researchers Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos say. In their book Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt (Princeton University Press, 2016), the authors say the popular myth of looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student […]
Recent regulations from the Department of Education improve protection for student borrowers targeted by misleading or predatory practices, and establish a clear path for loan forgiveness in instances of institutional fraud or misconduct—an issue financial aid experts say will impact both for-profits and nonprofits. The Department of Education can now automatically provide debt relief to […]
The bold headlines written about free tuition and college debt relief this election season signal that higher education occupies a more prominent place in the 2016 presidential campaign than it has held in past races. The reason? The economy’s better-paying jobs demand more highly skilled employees, while the public and its elected officials expect a […]
