In The News
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Will New Graduate Loan Limits Reduce Debt or Just Reduce Access?
Inside Higher Ed | November 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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ED’s ‘Special Projects’ Grants Spark Concern Over Congressional Intent
Inside Higher Ed | November 2025
Clare McCann
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How Will New Student Loan Caps Impact Graduate Students?
Forbes | November 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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How the Loan Cap Committee Reached Consensus
Inside Higher Ed | November 2025
Clare McCann
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Talks Over Loan Caps See Some Progress
Inside Higher Ed | November 2025
Clare McCann
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Student loan limits: Takeaways from a recent Brookings panel
Brookings Institution | October 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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ED Panel to Weigh Sorting of Grad and Professional Programs
Inside Higher Ed | October 2025
Clare McCann
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There’s a war on the bachelor’s degree. Can anything replace it?
MarketWatch | October 2025
Clare McCann
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Trump Wants Colleges to Freeze Tuition. Is That a Good Idea?
The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 2025
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Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education
The New Yorker | October 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Short-Term Pell Grants and What They Mean for Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education | October 2025
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How new details from Trump's student-loan repayment overhaul could affect Americans seeking advanced degrees
Business Insider | October 2025
Clare McCann
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What Would a Shutdown Mean for Rule Making?
Inside Higher Ed | September 2025
Clare McCann
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ED Panel to Weigh Sorting of Grad and Professional Programs
Inside Higher Ed | September 2025
Clare McCann
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Trump Is Slashing Grad School Loans. These Companies Are Scrambling To Step In
Forbes | September 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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New Federal Caps Could Lead Students to Take Out Private Loans, Studies Show
Inside Higher Ed | September 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Trump’s Vocational Education Con
Washington Monthly | August 2025
Stephanie Cellini
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Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data
Hechinger Report | August 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Colleges and universities in Mass. embraced graduate education. That may be a problem now.
Boston Globe | August 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Hearing Spotlights Concerns Heading Into Rule Making for ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
Inside Higher Ed | August 2025
Clare McCann
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Scammers Are Coming for College Students
The Atlantic | July 2025
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Chair Cassidy, Warren, Colleagues Reintroduce College Transparency Act
Senate HELP Committee | July 2025
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College Students In Hawaiʻi Could Lose Access To Federal Loans
Civil Beat | July 2025
Clare McCann
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Republicans cap student loan debt. Why that’s bad news for California medical students
CalMatters | July 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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The Federal Government Is Retreating From Student Lending
The Wall Street Journal | July 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Trump’s law reshapes federal loans and Pell Grants, impacting California students
EdSource | July 2025
Clare McCann
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The 5 huge changes coming for student-loan borrowers and colleges under GOP megabill
MarketWatch | July 2025
Clare McCann
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Senate megabill poised to change the way Americans borrow and repay student loans
MarketWatch | July 2025
Clare McCann
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Trump’s Vocational Education Con
Washington Monthly | June 2025
Stephanie Cellini
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Congress Is Poised To Expand Workforce Pell. Here’s What It Means for Adult Learners
BestColleges | June 2025
Stephanie Cellini
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How Senate Republicans Want to Hold Colleges Accountable
Inside Higher Ed | June 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Congress Opens the Credential Floodgates
Inside Higher Ed | June 2025
Stephanie Cellini
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Consequences for colleges whose students carry mountains of debt? Republicans say yes
NPR | June 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Republicans want to curb federal student loans — and private lenders are ready to step in
MarketWatch | June 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Education Department Cuts Could Leave Colleges Without Critical Data. Here’s What Students Need To Know.
BestColleges | May 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Trump’s immigration stance endangers one of the biggest revenue streams for Columbia University
Politico | May 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Op-Ed: On Student Aid, It’s Congressional Republicans vs. DOGE
The Chronicle of Higher Education | May 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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Bipartisan Proposal Would Make Pell Grants Tax-Exempt
BestColleges | May 2025
Clare McCann
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State-Imposed Tuition Freezes Come With Unintended Costs for Students
Inside Higher Ed | April 2025
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‘Breathtakingly Irresponsible’: Former Workers Decry Decimation of Education Dept.’s Data Warehouse
The Chronicle of Higher Education | March 2025
Jordan Matsudaira
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‘I Want to Stand Up for Higher Ed’: Protesters Rally Against Education Dept. Cuts
The Chronicle of Higher Education | March 2025
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Why student-loan borrowers ‘are going to feel the brunt’ of the Education Department layoffs
MarketWatch | March 2025
Clare McCann
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What will happen to student loans if the Education Department shuts down?
MarketWatch | March 2025
Clare McCann
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Student-loan borrowers struggle to access repayment plans. Advocates worry about ‘chaos.’
MarketWatch | February 2025
Clare McCann
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Linda McMahon Will Make Her Case to Lead Ed. Dept. as Trump Tries to Shrink It
EducationWeek | February 2025
Clare McCann
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Who Is In Charge of the Education Department Right Now? Few Details Are Out There
Inside Higher Ed | February 2025
Clare McCann
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Trump inherits a $1.6 trillion student-loan crisis. What he does next will impact millions of borrowers.
MarketWatch | January 2025
Clare McCann
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Biden Leaves Behind a Graveyard of Higher Ed Policies
Inside Higher Ed | January 2025
Clare McCann
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Op-Ed: How Trump Can Overhaul Higher Ed
Boston Globe | December 2024
Clare McCann
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Stop for-profit education programs from profiteering off of students
PolitiFact | December 2024
Stephanie Cellini