college affordability Tag Archive

The U.S. Supreme Court Considers Student Debt Forgiveness

Today marks the beginning of oral arguments in the Department of Education v. Brown and Biden v. Nebraska Supreme Court cases. These two...

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Don’t Overlook These Key Details of Student Loan Forgiveness

After months of speculation, President Joe Biden announced his administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness. Although many...

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Tuition Capping and Freezing: Rain Check for Future Price Increases or Durable Policy Solution?

Last month, we released a 50-State Comparison of tuition-setting policies showing that, in the majority of states, legislatures grant...

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Debt-Free College and Free College: What’s the Difference?

As the buzz around free college programs continues to grow, there are opportunities for confusion between what constitutes debt-free...

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Can Students Afford to Pay for College?

With lots of information out there on college affordability — or un-affordability, depending on what you are reading — we wondered how...

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Open Educational Resources and College Affordability

The share of low-income and first-generation students enrolling in college is increasing, especially at community colleges. In addition to...

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Free College: The Arkansas story

As of March 14, 2017, 80 “free college” policy proposals have been introduced in 27 states. While the clear majority of these bills...

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The Governor That’s Making Free College Happen

If you’ve heard of the “free college” trend, chances are you’ve heard of Tennessee. Since the Tennessee Promise was enacted in...

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K-12’s Role in College Affordability

A presenter at the STEM Funders Network last week in Denver commented that it is great there is a push for free community college; however,...

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Three Things I Think I Think: Ruminations on trends impacting higher education

Americans love lists, for a host of reasons, and the higher education policy community is no exception. A wide collection of ‘Top Ten’...

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