Latest
Big ideas, bold solutions. Explore the latest research, analysis, and policy insights from our experts.
Does Paying Students to Finish Pay Off?
Massachusetts announced a new tuition rebate program to improve progress at its community colleges, but the evidence doesn't look good.
The Value of Accurate Cost Estimates for All Students
Colleges are not estimating their costs incorrectly
Trump’s Higher Education Plan Because Good God I Guess We Have to Do This Now
Higher Ed Happy Hour Episode 17: Kevin, Libby, and Andrew break down the good, bad, and ugly of the Trump higher ed agenda.
More Than Tuition: Higher Education and the Social Safety Net
College is not a proxy for a social safety net.
More than Tuition: Experimenting with Loan Limits
Should loan limits be raised? Lowered? Eliminated?
Congress Should Take Lead in Battle over Financial Aid ‘Displacement’
Schools argue that they have a responsibility to give aid to the most in need, but is that really what they are doing?
More Than Tuition: Improving Financial Literacy
After COA is set, low and moderate income students have a tough decision to make, how much debt can they realistically take on?
More Than Tuition: How to Improve Cost of Attendance
The 1986 Higher Education Act restricted the Department of Education's involvement in Cost of Attendance calculations, but at what cost?
More Than Tuition: Trends in Cost Estimates Over Time
There has been huge discrepencies in how COA is calculated for colleges in the same geographical regions that have some angry.
More Than Tuition: High Uncertainty and Complicated Incentives
More Than Tuition: Today’s Students and Institutional Incentives for Setting Yearly Budgets
Even as the media focus is on elite private colleges, 45 percent of students live in households with less than $30,000 a year.
The University of Phoenix Was Right: Forcing Students to Agree to Binding Arbitration is Unfair
In 2004, the University of Phoenix (UOP), the largest for-profit college in the country, took a principled stand on behalf of its students.
A Legislative History: Why is Cost of Attendance so Complicated?
Congress first defined COA more than four decades ago, in 1972, but changes in the student population since has left lawmakers scrambling.
