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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Qyana M. Stewart |Amber Villalobos |Robert Shireman
The next four years will be tumultuous for students and colleges. President-elect Trump is expected to aggressively reorient the federal role in higher education, and his agenda may face little challenge from either Congress or the courts. The first Trump administration prioritized proprietary colleges’ profits over the interests of defrauded students and reduced protections for vulnerable students.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Qyana M. Stewart |Carolyn Fast |Amber Villalobos |Stephanie Hall
TCF senior fellow and director of higher education Carolyn Fast testified before the New Jersey State Senate Higher Education Committee on October 10, 2024.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Tiara Moultrie |Amber Villalobos |Peter Granville
In the end, anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism. —Shirley ChisholmThe quest for racial equity in the United States has been a longstanding struggle for justice, and so it is essential to examine history and understand the challenges of the past in order to chart a course for the future.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Amber Villalobos |Denise Smith |Carolyn Fast |Jonathan Zabala
Looking at the coverage of Asian-American students in mainstream media, it’s easy to see why the myth of Asians as the “model minority” persists. In story after story, Asian students across the United States are portrayed as faring well—sometimes almost too well.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Tiara Moultrie |Amber Villalobos |Robert Shireman
In a 1993 essay, Milton Friedman declared that one of the virtues of the free market system was its non-consideration of one’s color or religion. The only thing that ultimately matters is the quality of a good or service. Therefore, participants in any free market should expect that their participation in the market would not be hindered by factors outside their control, such as race.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Peter Granville |Robert Shireman |Carolyn Fast |Denise Smith
There is no end in sight to the financial woes at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). FSA needs funds to carry out crucial services, including processing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and overseeing the $1.6 trillion dollar student loan program. Unfortunately, the agency is starved for funds.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Stefan Lallinger |Denise Smith |Amber Villalobos
On November 23, 2023, the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and The Century Foundation held a discussion, “What’s Next after Affirmative Action for College Admissions?” moderated by Denise Smith, deputy director and senior fellow at The Century Foundation.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Amber Villalobos |Carolyn Fast |Peter Granville |Denise Smith
On December 8, 2023, Amber Villalobos of The Century Foundation, Stephanie Hall of Center for American Progress, and Edward Conroy of New America wrote a letter to Secretary Miguel Cardona at the U.S. Department of Education about the instability of online program managers (OPMs) in general, and in particular about the recent decline of the large online program manager 2U.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Denise Smith |Stefan Lallinger |Tiara Moultrie
Note: This commentary uses the term Hispanic when referring to the Hispanic/Latinx/Latine population. This term is used when drawing on the available student-level data used, in which the racial category for this population is listed as “Hispanic or Latino.”Online program managers (OPMs) were recently referred to as the new predators in higher education, and rightfully so.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Carolyn Fast |Denise Smith |Peter Granville |Tiara Moultrie
Online education has the potential to increase the number of students who attend and complete college. Exclusively online degree programs, in particular, can remove time- or location-based constraints associated with enrolling in courses that require in-person attendance on campus. Due to the convenience and flexibility of online degree programs, the proportion of college students enrolled in exclusively online degree programs has increased from 6.3 percent in 2012 to 23.4 percent in 2020.
