In The News

  • Will New Graduate Loan Limits Reduce Debt or Just Reduce Access?

    Inside Higher Ed | November 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • ED’s ‘Special Projects’ Grants Spark Concern Over Congressional Intent

    Inside Higher Ed | November 2025

    Clare McCann

  • How Will New Student Loan Caps Impact Graduate Students?

    Forbes | November 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • How the Loan Cap Committee Reached Consensus

    Inside Higher Ed | November 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Talks Over Loan Caps See Some Progress

    Inside Higher Ed | November 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Student loan limits: Takeaways from a recent Brookings panel

    Brookings Institution | October 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • ED Panel to Weigh Sorting of Grad and Professional Programs

    Inside Higher Ed | October 2025

    Clare McCann

  • There’s a war on the bachelor’s degree. Can anything replace it?

    MarketWatch | October 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Trump Wants Colleges to Freeze Tuition. Is That a Good Idea?

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 2025

  • Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education

    The New Yorker | October 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Short-Term Pell Grants and What They Mean for Colleges

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 2025
    Stephanie Cellini, Clare McCann

  • How new details from Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul could affect Americans seeking advanced degrees

    Business Insider | October 2025

    Clare McCann

  • What Would a Shutdown Mean for Rule Making?

    Inside Higher Ed | September 2025

    Clare McCann

  • ED Panel to Weigh Sorting of Grad and Professional Programs

    Inside Higher Ed | September 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Trump Is Slashing Grad School Loans. These Companies Are Scrambling To Step In

    Forbes | September 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • New Federal Caps Could Lead Students to Take Out Private Loans, Studies Show

    Inside Higher Ed | September 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Trump’s Vocational Education Con

    Washington Monthly | August 2025

    Stephanie Cellini

  • Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

    Hechinger Report | August 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Colleges and universities in Mass. embraced graduate education. That may be a problem now.

    Boston Globe | August 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Hearing Spotlights Concerns Heading Into Rule Making for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

    Inside Higher Ed | August 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Scammers Are Coming for College Students

    The Atlantic | July 2025

  • Chair Cassidy, Warren, Colleagues Reintroduce College Transparency Act

    Senate HELP Committee | July 2025

  • College Students In Hawaiʻi Could Lose Access To Federal Loans

    Civil Beat | July 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Republicans cap student loan debt. Why that’s bad news for California medical students

    CalMatters | July 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending

    The Wall Street Journal | July 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Trump’s law reshapes federal loans and Pell Grants, impacting California students

    EdSource | July 2025

    Clare McCann

  • The 5 huge changes coming for student-loan borrowers and colleges under GOP megabill

    MarketWatch | July 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Senate megabill poised to change the way Americans borrow and repay student loans

    MarketWatch | July 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Trump’s Vocational Education Con

    Washington Monthly | June 2025

    Stephanie Cellini

  • Congress Is Poised To Expand Workforce Pell. Here’s What It Means for Adult Learners

    BestColleges | June 2025

    Stephanie Cellini

  • How Senate Republicans Want to Hold Colleges Accountable

    Inside Higher Ed | June 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Congress Opens the Credential Floodgates

    Inside Higher Ed | June 2025

    Stephanie Cellini

  • Consequences for colleges whose students carry mountains of debt? Republicans say yes

    NPR | June 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Republicans want to curb federal student loans — and private lenders are ready to step in

    MarketWatch | June 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Education Department Cuts Could Leave Colleges Without Critical Data. Here’s What Students Need To Know.

    BestColleges | May 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Trump’s immigration stance endangers one of the biggest revenue streams for Columbia University

    Politico | May 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Op-Ed: On Student Aid, It’s Congressional Republicans vs. DOGE

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Bipartisan Proposal Would Make Pell Grants Tax-Exempt

    BestColleges | May 2025

    Clare McCann

  • State-Imposed Tuition Freezes Come With Unintended Costs for Students

    Inside Higher Ed | April 2025

  • ‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | March 2025

    Jordan Matsudaira

  • ‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. Cuts

    The Chronicle of Higher Education | March 2025
    Jordan Matsudaira

  • Why student-loan borrowers ‘are going to feel the brunt’ of the Education Department layoffs

    MarketWatch | March 2025

    Clare McCann

  • What will happen to student loans if the Education Department shuts down?

    MarketWatch | March 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Student-loan borrowers struggle to access repayment plans. Advocates worry about ‘chaos.’

    MarketWatch | February 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Linda McMahon Will Make Her Case to Lead Ed. Dept. as Trump Tries to Shrink It

    EducationWeek | February 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Who Is In Charge of the Education Department Right Now? Few Details Are Out There

    Inside Higher Ed | February 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Trump inherits a $1.6 trillion student-loan crisis. What he does next will impact millions of borrowers.

    MarketWatch | January 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Biden Leaves Behind a Graveyard of Higher Ed Policies

    Inside Higher Ed | January 2025

    Clare McCann

  • Op-Ed: How Trump Can Overhaul Higher Ed

    Boston Globe | December 2024

    Clare McCann

  • Stop for-profit education programs from profiteering off of students

    PolitiFact | December 2024

    Stephanie Cellini