Affordability

Statement on the House College Affordability Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the Higher Education Act that would invest hundreds of billions of dollars in college access and affordability.

18 organizations urge Senate HELP Committee leadership to reject a piecemeal approach to higher education reform and instead pass a comprehensive Higher Education Act reauthorization that makes major strides in increasing college affordability, reduces the burden of student debt, and closes racial and economic equity gaps in college access and attainment.

63 organizations urge Senate appropriators to continue their support for the Pell Grant by keeping all Pell Grant funds in the Pell program.

In Better Together: How a Reimagined Federal-State Partnership to Fund Public Higher Education Could Help Bring College Within Reach for All, we outline how states and the federal government should work together to increase college affordability, especially for low-income students and underrepresented students of color.

Comprehensive policy framework for designing a new federal-state partnership to fund public higher education. This proposal offers a roadmap for turning the tide of state disinvestment and restoring the promise of public higher education for all students.

“Congress should reject Chairman Alexander’s piecemeal higher education proposal and instead immediately and separately renew expiring funding for…