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Aug 15, 2025
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) included long-overdue limits on federal loans to graduate students. While graduate loans have been effectively unlimited, going...
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Aug 11, 2025
The US Senate confirmed Nicholas Kent as Under Secretary of Education, a top Education Department official who will oversee the agency’s work on postsecondary education.
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May 27, 2025
Center-left journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have published a provocative new book—Abundance—which argues that overregulation has hamstrung progressive...
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May 9, 2025
Schools can lose aid when their students’ default rate exceeds 30 percent for three consecutive years or 40 percent in just one year.
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Apr 9, 2025
Congressional Republicans are considering a significant hike in the excise tax on the endowments of rich universities as part of a broader tax reform effort.
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Mar 20, 2025
Harvard University recently announced it would make tuition free for students from families earning below $200,000—but for middle-class students not lucky enough to...
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Mar 4, 2025
“Administrative bloat” is a subjective term. To take a broad view, however, we can look at how many staff universities have hired for non-instructional positions