Statement on President-elect Biden's American Rescue Plan

Three disturbing stories about the rise of private student loans.

"Working Class Students Feel the Pinch" in the Chronicle of Higher Education on June 9. This article is about how the financial aid formula can work against working-class students who work hard to pay for school.

Private student loans are not just an asterisk in the loan data anymore. And they're not just for law and med students, either.

The Education Writers Association just had their national conference in New Orleans. One of the sessions was called "How the Game is Played in Enrollment Management -- is richer always better?"

Another source of useful data on college students' family income is the CIRP Freshman Survey, developed by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA. Each year, colleges across the country administer the CIRP survey to their incoming freshmen, asking them about a range of topics, including family income. HERI compiles the responses into a national report. Each participating...

The new Carnegie Classification system of higher education institutions is now in use on economicdiversity.org. The new classifications were released in February 2006, and increased the total number of classifications from 18 to 33. Thirteen of these additions are for Associate's colleges. One addition was made to the Research category, one addition was made to the Master's category,...