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A Policymaker’s Guide to Using New Student Debt Metrics to Strengthen Higher Education Accountability
Report considers three promising debt metrics that could complement and strengthen existing accountability metrics and ultimately move the needle on borrower success: debt-to-discretionary earnings ratios, earnings net of expected debt payments thresholds, and repayment rates.
Scaling Student Success: A National Proposal
Increasing college attainment offers tremendous promise for increasing social mobility, tackling poverty, and reducing racial and income inequality, aspirations that are more vital than ever as the devastating impact of the pandemic has fallen disproportionately on people of color. Yet for too many policymakers and practitioners, the path to growing our college completion ...
Key Finding
Nationally, more than six in ten (62 percent) college seniors who graduated from public and private nonprofit colleges in 2019 had student loan debt. These borrowers owed an average of $28,950. (Student Debt and the Class of 2019)
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VIRTUAL EVENT | Scaling Student Success: A National Policy Proposal
On January 21, 2021, TICAS unveiled a bold new $1 billion proposal for scaling comprehensive student success initiatives, and ultimately double the number of first-generation, low-income, Black, Indigenous, and Latino students who graduate from college.
Student Debt Metrics Key to Strengthening Higher Education Accountability
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Student Debt Metrics Key to Strengthening Higher Education Accountability
Report considers three promising debt metrics that could complement and strengthen existing accountability metrics and ultimately move the needle on borrower success: debt-to-discretionary earnings ratios…
