Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Cancelling Student Loan Debt

| July 23, 2019 Up to $50,000 in student loan debt will be cancelled for 42 million Americans under a bill intr Read more

Scholars Critique White House Higher Ed Policies, 2020 Candidates’ Proposals

| July 15, 2019
Considering unease on many campuses regarding the Trump administration’s higher education pol [...] Read more

Poll Shows Biden With Early Lead in 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary

by Monica Levitan | November 30, 2018
A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll conducted the week after the 2018 Midterm Election s [...] Read more

Federal Policy Priorities Outlined at National Action Network Conference

| November 13, 2018
Voting rights, health care, economic uplift and criminal justice reform are key legislative pol [...] Read more

Still Separate, Still Unequal: American Indians and Election 2018

by Khalilah L. Brown-Dean | October 20, 2018
To be sure, the legacy of conquest meant that American Indians and enslaved Africans were often [...] Read more

Department of Education Scrapping Plan for Single Student Loan Servicer

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | August 1, 2017
The U.S. Department of Education announced late Tuesday that it was reversing course on its pla [...] Read more

Elizabeth Warren to Accrediting Agencies: Step Up

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | February 1, 2017
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said accrediting agencies should be more aggressive and work with th [...] Read more

DeVos Calls for Higher Ed Reset at Factious Hearing

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | January 18, 2017
In a contentious Senate confirmation hearing in which Democrats cast her as unqualified to be s [...] Read more

Students of American Career Institute to see $30M in Loans Forgiven

by Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press | January 16, 2017
BOSTON — Students of the now-shuttered American Career Institute will have more than $30 mill [...] Read more

Sen. Warren Troubled by Trump Pick for Education Secretary

by Steve LeBlanc, Associated Press | January 9, 2017
BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s troubled by the record of Donald Trump&# [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice