Report: Tough Love: Bottom-Line Quality Standards for Colleges

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Higher Education

Report: Tough Love: Bottom-Line Quality Standards for Colleges

June 17, 2014 by Michael Dannenberg, Mary Nguyen Barry

With roughly $180 billion in federal student aid and tax benefits provided each year to colleges and universities with virtually no performance strings attached regarding low-income student access, degree-completion, and post-enrollment success measures, these institutions are getting a pass.

The Education Trust report Tough Love: Bottom-Line Quality Standards for Colleges recommends targeting assistance to persistently underperforming public and nonprofit colleges and imposing tough consequences, including cutting off federal aid, on these institutions that fail to improve within a reasonable time period.