December 5, 2019
TICAS statement on Senate passage of a bipartisan deal to permanently extend funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions and to make long-overdue administrative revisions to improve access to affordable student loan repayment plans and simplify the FAFSA.
December 5, 2019
The Department of Education recently released a new, more user-friendly version of its College Scorecard website, which is an important consumer resource that provides key information about college costs and student outcomes. Alongside improvements to the website’s user interface, including features that let students more easily compare different institutions, federally...
December 3, 2019
Like other proposals before it, the College Affordability Act (CAA) — House Democrats’ comprehensive proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act — makes major progress in improving the federal student loan repayment system. In this blog post, we outline the major components of the new repayment system under the CAA, which is a strong starting point for much-needed...
November 14, 2019
With more than one million students defaulting on their loans every year, policymakers need to do more to prevent unaffordable debts. In a new report, TICAS underscores the importance of strengthening the cohort default rate (CDR) in order to further reduce the risk of student loan default.
November 1, 2019
On October 31, the House Committee on Education and Labor passed the College Affordability Act (CAA), a comprehensive proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act.
October 31, 2019
“The new rules released today continue the Trump Administration’s rollbacks of consumer protections against predatory and low-quality colleges…
October 31, 2019
TICAS statement on committee passage of House College Affordability Act, a comprehensive overhaul of the Higher Education Act that would invest hundreds of billions of dollars to improve college access and affordability for students from all backgrounds.
