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Yet Another Time Bomb
The looming interest rate increase for subsidized student loans replays a familiar storyline: crisis, last-minute fix, another crisis. Meanwhile, the loans' future is in jeopardy.
Changing Their Tone
While recognizing looming challenges, elite liberal arts college presidents think their best course is to continue to do what they do best and try to change the conversation about educational value.
Veterans' Debt Collectors
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to resume withholding debts from tuition benefits, a plan colleges worry will simply transfer those debts to institutions.
Tuition Model Quietly Spreading
Despite the uproar over Santa Monica, differential tuition has become normal at many public universities and is making inroads in community colleges.
Tuition Plan That Went Too Far
Santa Monica, amid growing opposition, agrees to indefinite delay in two-tiered pricing plan that was seen as antithetical to community college ideals.
Pentagon Alters Tuition Assistance
The Department of Defense appears to have dropped provisions that many research universities said overreached on colleges' academic policies, but will require more disclosure.
'Voice of Reason'
Daniel Madzelan, a senior Education Department official who retired in January, reflects on the shifts he saw in a career overseeing financial aid policy.
Duncan Defends Spending Hikes
Saying now is not the time to cut back on higher ed, the U.S. education secretary testifies before a House committee.