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A Long Overdue Change to Campus-Based Aid

The higher education plan that President Obama unveiled last week should be applauded not only because it would hold colleges accountable for their “affordability and value” but also because it would...

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A Brief History of the Battle Over Campus-Based Aid

With his call to revamp campus-based student aid, President Obama has joined what has been an on-again, off-again 30-year battle over the programs’ funding structure. He is the third president in a row...

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Four Reasons Obama May Have a Shot at Overhauling Campus-Based Aid

As I wrote last week, President Obama is facing a major uphill battle in persuading Congress to overhaul the inequitable funding formula that the government uses to allocate funds through the federal...

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The Good and the Bad of the President’s Higher Education Budget

The details of the president’s higher education budget are pretty vague at this point, but from what they’ve released so far, here is the good and bad. The Good “Makes Student Loan Interest Rates More...

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