Preston Cooper
Contributor at Forbes
Higher ed, student loans, college ROI. @AEI senior fellow. @Forbes contributor. Hiker, diver, dog appreciator. Usual disclaimers.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | With Preston Cooper |Preston Cooper |Nat Malkus |Sally Satel
For decades, the position of university trustee was largely a public honorific. This is changing. As Republican governors recognize that their public colleges are financially mismanaged, academically corrupt, and increasingly ideologically captured, they’re asking their appointees to do something about it.
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3 weeks ago |
amac.us | Preston Cooper
Student loan payments have been due for six months now—yet no one seems to have told the students. The federal government effectively suspended payments on student loans for four and a half years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading many borrowers to lose touch with their loan servicers and disengage from the repayment system. False promises of loan cancellation led to confusion and bitterness.
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3 weeks ago |
aei.org | Preston Cooper |Christopher Robinson
Columbia University has “capitulated” to the Trump administration’s demands, in the words of many media outlets, after the government withdrew around $400 million in federal grants and contracts from the institution. In a four-page letter, Columbia outlined the steps it would take to satisfy the administration’s complaints. Though protests have erupted on campus in opposition to the changes, the reforms Columbia says it will make are eminently reasonable—and some of them are overdue.
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1 month ago |
aei.org | Preston Cooper |Christopher Robinson
Student loan payments have been due for six months now—yet no one seems to have told the students. The federal government effectively suspended payments on student loans for four and a half years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, leading many borrowers to lose touch with their loan servicers and disengage from the repayment system. False promises of loan cancellation led to confusion and bitterness.
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1 month ago |
aei.org | Preston Cooper
In March 2020, as America shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed a law for six months. The payment pause ended up lasting, in effect, for four and a half years. Though well-intentioned, the pause and its repeated extensions may go down as one of the worst mistakes in the history of higher education policy. Payments effectively resumed in October 2024.
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You have to pay your student loans. If you don’t the government will collect. This is how student loans work. Would it have been better to do this in 2021 when the economy was headed up instead of down? Absolutely. But Biden refused to do it then so here we are.
Objectively this will be bad for consumer spending and the economy as it will drive a lot of people out of the housing market and into desperate circumstances.
"With astonishing speed, the conviction took hold—fueled by admiration for China’s totalitarian lockdown strategy––that a willingness to lock citizens down was the measure of strong leadership. Before March was out, schools across the United States had shut their doors."
The Junk Science of Pandemic School Closure A new book by @davidzweig offers a painstaking look at how researchers, journalists, and policymakers got Covid wrong. Me, at @EducationNext. https://t.co/OMLnm6a4Mk
RT @kissel_adam: Thanks to editors @lindseymburke and @PrestonCooper93 for including my chapter on how trustees can work through existing a…