By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Senate voted 50 to 46 along party lines Thursday to confirm Kenneth Marcus as the next head of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. More...
Report on Confusion Created in Aid Award Letters
By Andrew Kreighbaum. In a report today, New America and uAspire call for a new effort to standardize financial aid award letters to make them more transparent to college students and their families. More...
Court Considers Questions on Loan Forgiveness for Defrauded Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum. After granting student borrowers a temporary victory last month against the Department of Education, a federal judge this week will consider larger questions about whether all Corinthian Colleges students misled by their former institution should get full relief of their student loan debt. More...
Report Dings Tax Deduction for High-Income Grad Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A new report argues for letting a tax deduction that benefits high-earning grad students expire. It's part of a drumbeat of proposals to restrict federal benefits for graduate students. More...
Taking on the College Endowment Tax
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A Republican member of the House education committee and former two-year-college leader explains why he wants to repeal the college endowment tax and also describes where higher education is falling short. More...
New Accreditation Panel on Nonprofit Conversions
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which oversees the country's higher ed accrediting bodies, voted Thursday to have a subcommittee study oversight questions involved in for-profit colleges seeking to reclassify as nonprofit entities. More...
New Fix for Public Service Loans
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education on Wednesday announced the process by which borrowers who had made ineligible payments for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program could be reconsidered for the benefit. More...
Another Setback for Programs Overseen by Troubled Accreditor
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A large for-profit college chain fails in first attempt to find a new accreditor, potentially raising the stakes for the Trump administration's review of ACICS, its current agency. More...
