By Karen Weise “The New York Fed has been keeping an increasingly close eye on students loans, trying to understand how the more than $1 trillion in debt is affecting the wide swath of Americans who are borrowers. It recently...
By Jeff Green “Lawmakers in both the Senate and House recently introduced companion bills designed to protect students from unfair banking practices involving campus-sponsored financial products, including debit cards. Opponents to the legislation, however, say is will limit financial choices...
By Diana Williams “President Obama is pushing ahead with his plan to create a federal rating system for the nation’s 7,000 colleges and universities. Families know that tuition rates have gone up three-fold since the 1980’s, and many students are graduating...
By Maggie McGrath “In the college commencement speeches making headlines this graduation season, a few of the usual themes emerged: find your passion, as Fed chair Janet Yellen preached to a crowd of NYU grads; recover from a “soul-scorching” loss with...
An excerpt from Young Invincibles’ Deputy Director Rory O’Sullivan’s op-ed for U.S. News & World Report: “‘You’re supposed to find the pain that’s driving them to go back to school, and use that to get them to enroll.’ ‘I fed...
U.S. Department of Education Attention: Ashley Higgins 1990 K Street NW Room 8037 Washington, DC 20006-8502 Filed via regulations.gov on May 27, 2014 Re: Comments on the Proposed Rule on Program Integrity: Gainful Employment [Docket ID ED–2014–OPE–0039] To whom it...
By Katrin Moskowitz “I recently had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Weitzman Symposium with a focus on primary care. It was hosted by Community Health Center, Inc., and it was held on the beautiful Wesleyan University Campus. The focus...
By Goldie Blumenstyk “The for-profit-college industry’s trade association, backed by a 100-page report by economists, is coming out swinging against the U.S. Department of Education’s draft ‘gainful employment’ regulation.” Read more here.
By Jonnelle Marte “Every year, high school students sit down with their parents, sift through college rankings, make campus visits, and try to figure out if they can afford to pay — or to borrow — the money needed for college. Most often...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2014 Contact: Colin Seeberger, colin.seeberger@younginvincibles.org, 214.223.2913 Contact: Sarah Lovenheim, sarah.lovenheim@younginvincibles.org, 202.734.6529 Young Invincibles Hails New CHANCE Act on College Access Bill Would Bolster the Pell Grant [WASHINGTON]—Yesterday, Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI)...