By Andrew Kreighbaum. Congressional lawmakers who are negotiating a final tax reform package will drop a provision to treat graduate students' tuition benefits as taxable income, according to a report from Bloomberg. More...
Analysis: 28 Colleges Would Fail Grad Rate Requirement in House Bill
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act. More...
DeVos on GOP's Higher Education Act Rewrite
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Thursday that she viewed the U.S. House of Representatives' update to the Higher Education Act as "conceptually, a starting point," although she declined to address specific provisions and said she hadn't had an opportunity to look at the details of the bill. More...
Democratic AGs Sue DeVos on Borrower Defense
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Four Democratic attorneys general filed separate lawsuits Thursday seeking to compel Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to grant debt relief to students defrauded by for-profit colleges. More...
Final GOP Deal Would Tax Large Endowments
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A proposal to tax some large private college endowments made it into the final version of a tax reform bill agreed to by House and Senate negotiators this week. More...
Apparent Relief for Grad Students
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting higher ed from final tax-reform bill. More...
GOP Pushes Ahead on Higher Ed Act
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Republicans on House education committee -- with little patience for complaints over rushed process -- advanced out of committee an expansive update to law governing federal aid programs. More...
Baby Steps on ‘Unit Records’ in House
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The massive Higher Education Act bill that the House of Representatives education committee will begin debating today got a slight revision Monday, as the panel's Republican leaders offered a modest nod to greater transparency about student outcomes. More...
Reversal on Graduate Lending
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As Republicans in Congress look to change course on graduate lending policies, some higher education groups warn about limiting access and tougher paths to service-oriented careers. More...
How the Tax Bills Would Hit Higher Ed
By Andrew Kreighbaum. On eve of vote on Senate tax reform plan, we compare it to the House version, which would hurt students and families more. Both would hit colleges and universities hard by imposing new taxes and constraining state budgets. More...