Bipartisan Policy Ideas on Higher Education

The Urban Institute this week released 10 new papers from a bipartisan, high-profile group of scholars and experts on federal higher education policy.

"The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now, a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities," the institute said. "To help inform these decisions, we offer a series of memos written by a bipartisan group of scholars and policy analysts and rooted in an understanding of the importance and limits of the federal role in higher education."

The memos cover the following areas:

• Data and transparency
• Institutional accountability
• Accreditation
• Innovation
• Workforce development
• For-profit colleges
• Understanding and modifying student behaviors and decisions
• Pell grants and student aid simplification
• Student loan repayment
• Private loan financing mechanisms