Mobility Report Cards Data Show These Institutions are Increasingly Recruiting Affluent Students
Stephen Burd
Stephen Burd is a senior policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2017
Borrower’s Remorse
The Obama administration promised debt relief to the victims of predatory for-profit colleges. Then came Trump.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
How the GOP Became For-Profit College Abuse Deniers
Any deregulation of the for-profit college industry will be just another waffle in a long history of such moves.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
ITT Executives Have Only Themselves to Blame for the Company’s Demise
Allegations paint a disturbing picture of a school that enriched its leaders and harmed students.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
The University of Phoenix Was Right: Forcing Students to Agree to Binding Arbitration is Unfair
In 2004, the University of Phoenix (UOP), the largest for-profit college in the country, took a principled stand on behalf of its students. Unlike many other for-profit schools, UOP refused to include a clause in students’ enrollment agreements that required them to settle any disputes with the schools through binding arbitration. University of Phoenix officials […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
The Troubling Use of ‘Merit Aid’ at Public Flagships and Research Universities
Which eight public universities spent 100 percent of institutional aid on non-needy students in 2014-15?
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Students Shouldn’t Have to Give Up Legal Rights to Enroll in For-Profit Colleges
If Obama administration means what it says, it must end mandatory arbitration for defrauded college students
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
A Better Way to Judge a College’s Commitment to Serving Low-Income Students
For decades, policymakers, researchers and journalists have relied on a single metric to judge whether colleges are committed to serving low-income students: the percentage of their students who receive Pell Grants. But while such data are useful in comparing colleges based on their records of enrolling low-income students, they don’t reveal anything about the schools’ […]
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
A Fight in Maryland to Stop Colleges from Stripping Low-Income Students of Institutional Aid
Could the entire $1 billion-per-year U.S. private scholarship industry be at risk?
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Why UW-Madison’s Plan to Become Bigger “Merit Aid” Player is Bad for U.S. Public Higher Education
As public colleges lure affluent out-of-state students with merit aid, less aid and fewer seats remain for in-state students
