The net price full-time students attending four-year private institutions paid in 2024-25 has declined by almost 15% since 2006-07. At four-year publics: 43%
Funneling colleges' financial aid data and institutional costs into one location will require an unprecedented level of cross-departmental collaboration, says one Title IV expert.
Meanwhile, the president of New College of Florida fights back against the conservative school's decision to dump books en masse, and nearly 2,000 Cornell University are striking as fall classes begin.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program allows certain not-for-profit and government employees to have their federal student loans canceled after a decade in repayment. But the program has been plagued by problems.
Eight current and former staffers at the U.S. Education Department expressed dismay over a recent Supreme Court decision they fear will blunt major regulations affecting K-12 schools and colleges.
President Joe Biden is following through with a plan B to alleviate the country's student loan crisis, pivoting away from blanket relief for all borrowers to focus on those struggling with growing balances.
On or around Monday, nearly 3,000 former college students will be getting letters with the kind of news millions of Americans probably wish they could receive right now: that their outstanding debts have been cleared. The 2,777 former students attended Morehouse College, a historically Black liberal arts school for men in Atlanta. And collectively, they owed Morehouse […]
A $65.4 million appropriation to provide financial debt relief to the Penn West trio of state-owned universities at California, Clarion and Edinboro is included in the state budget bill awaiting final enactment. The budget bill – House Bill 611 – has yet to win final enactment due to a partisan dispute over a new student […]
It’s not large-scale student loan forgiveness, but it’s something: A small group of borrowers are set to have their outstanding debt canceled. The group includes thousands of borrowers who attended Colorado-based locations of CollegeAmerica, a now-closed for-profit college that was run by an organization known as Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE). In all, 7,400 […]
Confidence in the higher education system has dropped by double-digit numbers among all groups, except for Democrats, who were one point shy, Gallup found.
