Affordability

TICAS statement applauds the Biden-Harris Administration's actions to improve income-driven repayment program.

2022 has been an extraordinary year for higher education, delivering substantial progress on many of our longstanding policy priorities. This year brought much-needed but long-delayed relief to millions of students and borrowers. It also brought progress toward delivering more fully on the promise of an affordable, equitable college system that is free from fraud and abuse.

A group of more than 50 organizations urges Congress to advance the bipartisan, bicameral Understanding the True Cost of College…

The final brief in a four-part series on the Pell Grant, Pell Part IV provides an overview of the reporting process for the whole series. It reviews the use of College Scorecard and IPEDS OM, followed by a review of missing data, and concludes with a comparison of completion rates using both data sources. 

“Today, President Biden announced that his administration will cancel up to $10,000 of debt for all student borrowers with federal undergraduate, graduate, and parent loans who earned annual incomes less than $125,000, as well as up to $20,000 of debt for borrowers whose incomes fall below those thresholds and received a Pell Grant to help them pay for college.

As part of its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on July 28, the U.S. Department…