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1 month ago | 
tcf.org | Kings Floyd |Peter Granville |Chantal Hinds |Halley Potter
Jump to K-12 education; higher education; overall risk for the nation. The Trump administration is poised to issue executive orders that would dismantle
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Denise Smith |Peter Granville |Robert Shireman
To make their college dreams possible, students and families increasingly depend on financial aid, such as the federal Pell Grant, state-based grants and scholarships, and institutional tuition discounts. Financial aid programs help bridge the gap between families’ means and the sky-high sticker price of college; they are also critical components of elected leaders’ strategies to equip the nation’s workers with skills the economy demands.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Denise Smith |Margot Ngo |Peter Granville
Wealth is important. A person’s wealth—measured by summing their total assets, such as a home, retirement savings, and emergency savings or rainy day funds, and subtracting debts such as student loans and medical debt—is a major indicator of that person’s economic security, helps them and their family weather economic downturns, and supports their overall well-being. But wealth is not distributed equally; in fact, there are staggering gaps in wealth when measured by gender and race.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Peter Granville |Margot Ngo |Denise Smith |Qyana M. Stewart
Much of the current conversation in the higher education community is focused on value and the return on investment (ROI) that students obtain as a result of pursuing higher education. But while the nation seems to be reconsidering whether a college education is worth the cost, not enough attention is being paid to how individual institutions manage to provide a high ROI to students.
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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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Apr 9, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Peter Granville |Stephanie Hall |Edward Conroy |Amber Villalobos
Seven years ago, The Century Foundation filed FOIA requests with more than 100 public universities across the country, seeking copies of contracts with outside companies involved in their online degree programs. The results were alarming.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
nola.com | Peter Granville
In 2017, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to require high schoolers to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Recently, in a reversal that risks decreasing college access for low- and middle-income students, the state became the first to repeal the law. Louisiana’s mandatory FAFSA policy requires students to submit the FAFSA or opt-out, in order to promote awareness of financial aid eligibility.
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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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Feb 6, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Robert Shireman |Peter Granville |Denise Smith |Tiara Moultrie
In the last weeks of 2023, with momentum building in the House for a Pell Grant expansion that would require new funding, lawmakers on the Education and Workforce Committee turned to the student loan program to craft a funding mechanism, known as a “pay-for.” To offset the cost of expanding the Pell Grant so that it could be used for programs less than fifteen weeks in length, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act would create a new rule prohibiting institutions with lavish endowments from...
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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.
