Joint Letter from 66 Advocacy Organizations to House and Senate Leadership Calling for Student Debt Forgiveness
April 13, 2020 by EdTrust The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House United States House of Representatives H-232 The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Majority Leader United States Senate 317 Russell…
25 Groups Urge Congress to Extend CARES Act Benefits to all Federal Student Loan Borrowers
April 13, 2020 by EdTrust The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Majority Leader U.S. Senate 317 Russell Senate Office…
How Affordable Are Public Colleges in Your State?
December 17, 2019 by Andrew Howard Nichols, Marshall Anthony Jr., J. Oliver Schak For millions of college-going students, one of the most urgent concerns is the rising cost of college and how…
Hasan Minhaj is Right: Public Colleges Today Force Students to Take on Debt or Work Too Much
December 17, 2019 by EdTrust New Ed Trust Research Sheds Light on the Adage That Students From Low-Income Backgrounds Can Work Their Way Through College WASHINGTON (December 17, 2019) — The idea that students from…
College Affordability Act Would Advance Higher Education Opportunity and Improve Outcomes
October 31, 2019 by Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D. The full House should take up this comprehensive Higher Education Act reauthorization ASAP WASHINGTON (October 31, 2019) – Today, Wil Del Pilar, vice president of higher education at The Education…
Americans Are Split on College Costs and Who Should Pay
September 25, 2019 by Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D. This is a repost from New America’s EdCentral Policy Blog. You can find the original post here. New America recently released its third annual Varying Degrees survey, which examines Americans’…
Trump Administration Props Up Predatory For-Profit Colleges at Expense of Students With “Borrower Defense to Repayment” Final Rule
August 30, 2019 by Wil Del Pilar, Ph.D. Statement From Wil Del Pilar, Vice President for Higher Education, on the Trump Administration’s Borrower Defense to Repayment Final Rule Washington (August 30, 2019) – Today, Wil Del Pilar, vice…
Candidates’ “Free College” Proposals Must be More Inclusive of College Students with Children. Here’s How.
July 30, 2019 by Susana Contreras-Mendez, Tessa Holtzman, Lindsey Reichlin Cruse More than half of the 2020 presidential candidates support some version of “free college” as a strategy to combat the rising cost of college. Whether or not “free college” is…