Congress Should Take Lead in Battle over Financial Aid 鈥楧isplacement鈥
Schools argue that they have a responsibility to give aid to the most in need, but is that really what they are doing?
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More Than Tuition: Improving Financial Literacy
After COA is set, low and moderate income students have a tough decision to make, how much debt can they realistically take on?
More Than Tuition: How to Improve Cost of Attendance
The 1986 Higher Education Act restricted the Department of Education’s involvement in Cost of Attendance calculations, but at what cost?
More Than Tuition: Trends in Cost Estimates Over Time
There has been huge discrepencies in how COA is calculated for colleges in the same geographical regions that have some angry.
More Than Tuition: High Uncertainty and Complicated Incentives
More Than Tuition: Today’s Students and Institutional Incentives for Setting Yearly Budgets
Even as the media focus is on elite private colleges, 45 percent of students live in households with less than $30,000 a year.
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.
A Legislative History: Why is Cost of Attendance so Complicated?
Congress first defined COA more than four decades ago, in 1972, but changes in the student population since has left lawmakers scrambling.
Federal Work-Study isn’t Working
