Student Aid Policy

The Education Department needs to better monitor colleges' finances to prevent another costly fiasco like the 2014 collapse of Corinthian Colleges, says the agency's Office of Inspector General.

Obama administration guidelines for LGBT student protections under Title IX remain in place, and the student codes at Liberty and Bob Jones Universities appear to violate them.

Congress should resist efforts to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects students and taxpayers, writes Christine Lindstrom.

States often don't calculate revenue lost through higher education income tax benefits for students, report finds.

Right-leaning policy thinkers push agenda to simplify loan system, inject bigger role for private lenders. But proposals to eliminate PLUS loans likely to draw opposition from advocacy groups.

Tuition rose faster than state appropriations fell, and federal aid helped make that possible, study asserts.

Some education researchers have begun downloading federal data amid questions about the new administration's commitment to continuing transparency efforts.

The University of Kentucky, as the state’s flagship institution, has a moral responsibility to provide access to students of limited means, write Eli Capilouto and Tim Tracy, and thus is radically shifting the ratio of merit to need-based aid to do so.