I have a new piece in Minding the Campus on the botched FAFSA rollout. And not to brag, but I think it has the best headline for an education story so far this year. mindingthecampus.org/2024/01/10/faf…

I have a new op-ed in Minding the Campus on the Biden admin's lax approach to identifying and preventing fraud in their previous student loan forgiveness plan (thankfully struck down by the Supreme Court) mindingthecampus.org/2023/12/05/bid…

At Harvard, Carole Hooven couldn’t talk about biology.

At MIT, Dorian Abbott couldn’t talk about merit, fairness, and equality.

At Penn, Paula Scanlan couldn’t object to sharing a locker room with a male.

But, by all means, call for the genocide of Jews!

TIL: 'federal law authorizes at least 46 programs to enable borrowers to have all or part of their student loan debt forgiven or repaid on their behalf in exchange for the borrower’s completion of specified work or service' crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/…

I have a new piece in Minding the Campus on the lessons from the campus reaction to Hamas' massacre mindingthecampus.org/2023/10/30/gil…

The James Martin Center for Academic Renewal published a new piece of mine on graduate student lending that builds off the work of myself, Preston Cooper and Jason Delisle jamesgmartin.center/2023/10/reform…

The student loan payment pause is over. My new piece in Minding the Campus explores what we should learn from the experience mindingthecampus.org/2023/10/02/les…

Looks like ED caved to the higher ed lobby in the final Gainful Employment rule.

Nonprofit colleges are no longer subject to a requirement that they disclose high debt levels for undergraduate degrees to students before enrolling.

Who in their right mind would support a regressive x2 subsidy (subsidy recipients are richer, and among recipients, the subsidy increases with income). But frame it as 'let’s stop charging interest on student loans' and now it's a progressive priority.
insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

DeSantis won a fight with Biden over higher ed accreditation. I have a new piece in Minding the Campus that explores what's next ( it relies on recent work by Adam Kissel and Tim Rosenberger Jr.) mindingthecampus.org/2023/09/13/des…