| Mar 5 | How Strong Is the State of the Student Loan Repayment System? The last year has brought several major changes for federal student loan borrowers, including new options that are helping more of those feeling a financial burden get on a path to successful repayment. President Biden’s State of the Union on Marc... |
| Mar 1 | Who Experiences Default? According to findings from a 2021 nationally representative survey from The Pew Charitable Trusts, student loan default is quite common. Approximately one-third of federal student loan borrowers surveyed reported experiencing default over the past... |
| Feb 21 | Student Loan Borrowers Who Repay With SAVE Can Prevent Balance Growth A new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan is already helping federal student loan borrowers who have had to resume payments since the end of the pandemic-related pause in October. Nearly 7 million borrowers have enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable... |
| Jan 30 | Borrowers With Certain Educational Experiences Appear More Likely t... Borrowers with at least one of three educational attributes are among those most likely to experience default on their student loans: those who did not complete the degree or certificate for which they took out the loans, those who attended school... |
| Jan 25 | What Borrowers Need to Know About Student Loan Servicers Every student loan borrower is assigned a loan servicer to assist in loan repayment. The servicers can help borrowers navigate repayment options, including income-driven repayment (IDR), which can make payments more affordable. |
| Jan 24 | Federal Student Loan Repayment Basics After a more than three-year pause on repayment, the federal student loan system is back online. Today more than ever, it is crucial for borrowers to be well-informed about the changes ahead. The following articles highlight information borrowers ... |
| Jan 11 | The Critical Issue of Student Loan Default Federal student loan default—when a payment is not made for 270 days or more—can have serious consequences, including affecting a borrower's credit score, financial stability, and overall economic well-being. Before the pandemic, nearly 1 in 5 bor... |
| Jan 10 | Universities Explore Ways to Better Reward Faculty for Research Tha... A diverse group of universities has expanded faculty reward systems to recognize a wider range of scholarly contributions—particularly research that directly benefits society at large—in promotion and tenure decisions, according to a new white paper. |
| Jan 10 | 'Fresh Start' Can Help Student Loan Borrowers Avoid Negative Conseq... Borrowers resumed making payments on their federal student loans in October 2023 after a nearly three-and-a-half-year pause. To ease the re-entry into repayment, the Department of Education launched Fresh Start, a year-long program that temporaril... |
| Dec 19 | Regan Fitzgerald Regan Fitzgerald helps manage Pew’s student loan initiative, which seeks to improve the student loan repayment system, particularly for the borrowers most at risk of default and delinquency. Her work focuses on outreach and engagement. She previou... |
| Dec 12 | Student Loan Borrowers Concerned About Affording Payments After Pan... After a more than three-year pause because of the COVID-19 pandemic, payments on federal student loans resumed in October, a reality forcing many borrowers to refocus on how they will keep up with repayment. A survey conducted for The Pew Charitab... |
| Oct 16 | New Income-Driven Repayment Plan Will Promote Successful Repayment ... Federal student loan payments are resuming, and many borrowers remain concerned about their ability to restart repayments. |
| Oct 15 | Universities Take Promising Steps to Reward Research that Benefits ... This white paper results from a scan of promising reforms to faculty reward systems that was commissioned by participants in the Transforming Evidence Funders Network (TEFN), facilitated by The Pew Charitable Trusts. |
| Oct 11 | October Restart of Federal Student Loan Payments Could Hurt State E... With the federal government lifting in October its over three-year pause on requiring student loan payments, state economies could take a hit. The approximately 43 million Americans with student loans will have less money to spend. Prior to the pa... |
| Jul 19 | Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia... PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has awarded two grants totaling $1.85 million in its ongoing commitment to help Philadelphia-area organizations recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and to preserve and highlight the r... |
| Jul 13 | Key Facts About Student Loan Default as Payment Pause Nears End After a pause of more than three years, repayment on federal student loans will resume this fall and many borrowers are at risk of falling into a cycle of delinquency and default unless the U.S. Department of Education changes outdated repayment a... |
| Jun 20 | Many Student Veterans Must Borrow or Work to Cover Housing Costs The gap between the Post-9/11 GI Bill’s monthly housing allowance (MHA) and actual housing costs could lead veterans to borrow greater amounts through student loans, according to a survey done for The Pew Charitable Trusts. |
| May 16 | Updated Income-Driven Repayment Plan Should Help When Student Loan ... At some point this year, borrowers will likely be required to start repaying their federal student loans for the first time in three years, as the pandemic-related pause on payments, interest accrual, and collections on defaulted loans comes to an... |
| May 4 | Is Loan Default the Future for Student Borrowers? The panel will provide critical background for understanding the need for default reform and potential policy options. |
| May 4 | Many Student Loan Borrowers Vulnerable to Default When Payments Resume The federal student loan payment and interest pause that has been in effect for more than three years is scheduled to end later this year. An analysis of survey data, coupled with emerging financial trends such as rising consumer debt delinquencie... |
| Apr 7 | Bob Jones Board Chair Quits Amid Conflict With President Last week, Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit announced his resignation . He will leave office at the end of the academic year in May. His resignation came only a few months after the board re-elected him. He left amid a conflict over Tit... |
| Apr 7 | Marquette U facility promotes physical mental health Image: Marquette University will open its new wellness and recreation center in January 2025, joining a growing number of higher ed institutions that have combined mental and physical health within a single facility. The $80 million pro... |
| Apr 7 | Survey: What flexibility means to college students Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. About a quarter of students also see strict attendance or participation... |
| Apr 7 | Counseling centers triage students by mental health needs Image: Hannah Nunez’s job at Northern Arizona University requires her to be a few different things at once: an advocate, a compassionate ear, a repository of information about campus resources. As a behavioral health coordinator, part ... |
| Apr 7 | Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American... |
| Apr 7 | Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality? Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of... |
| Apr 7 | Biden admin to block blanket bans on trans student athletes Image: The Biden administration would prohibit blanket bans that “categorically” bar transgender students from participating in the sport consistent with their gender identity under a proposed amendment to federal civil rights la... |
| Apr 7 | One Size Doesn’t Fit All: An AI Approach to Healthier Eating AI has been getting mixed press lately, but can it help us become healthier? In today’s Academic Minute, Johns Hopkins University’s Kimia Ghobadi considers algorithms and diets. Ghobadi is a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department of ... |
| Apr 7 | How top college leaders should consider conference invitations (opi... As a higher ed leader, requests to attend conferences can be incessant and overwhelming, but they often warrant serious consideration, writes Maggy Ralbovsky. Job Tags: EXECUTIVE POSITIONS Ad keywords: administrators Show on Jobs site:... |
| Apr 7 | American U Students Petition for Narcan After Overdose Hundreds of American University students and alumni have signed a petition demanding that Narcan , a brand of naloxone , be made available at all dormitories on campus, WUSA9 News reported. The petition follows an overdose on campus of a nonstuden... |
| Apr 7 | San Francisco State Investigates Professor for Showing Image of Mu... San Francisco State University is investigating a professor, Maziar Behrooz, for showing an image of the prophet Muhammad in a course last fall on the history of Islam, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression . FIRE has cr... |
| Apr 7 | Eastern Illinois U Faculty, Advisers Begin Strike Faculty members and academic support professionals began striking Thursday at another public Illinois university, after fellow faculty walked out at Chicago State University Monday . The newly striking Eastern Illinois University chapter of the Un... |
| Apr 7 | Anti-CRT Measures Exploded Last Year, Report Finds Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. Of those measures a... |
| Apr 7 | An AI Approach to Healthier Eating: Academic Minute Today on the Academic Minute: Kimia Ghobadi, a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, explains how AI might help us become healthier.... |
| Apr 7 | Birmingham-Southern Board Votes to Remain Open Following months of closure talks related to ongoing financial issues, the Board of Trustees at Birmingham-Southern College voted unanimously Wednesday to remain open, AL.com reported . The private Alabama college has made appeals to state and loc... |
| Apr 7 | Rural academics are forced to code-switch (opinion) I—Samantha—vividly remember one of my first appointments as a writing consultant, where a scene played out that would repeat itself weekly in the years I worked there. A student brought in a rough draft of an argumentative essay and, a... |
| Apr 7 | With proposed TPS changes, Biden admin overreached (opinion) The Biden administration is best known for one thing: vastly overreaching its authority and then acting surprised when it gets pushback. On Feb. 15, the U.S. Department of Education issued a sweeping policy change through informal guidance th... |
| Apr 7 | Highlights From a Transfer Report Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Office of the Secretary of Higher Education for New Jersey made public its most recent report on the state of transfer in the state . Some of it is a bit inside baseball, but it contained a f... |
| Apr 6 | 3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong... Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet . Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. In our convers... |
| May 24 | How Peer Review Could Improve Our Teaching It’s time to take a formative — not punitive — approach to evaluating what we do in the college classroom. By Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Ann Austin, Gabriela Cornejo Weaver, and Noah D. Finkelstein It’s time to take a formative — not punitive — app... |
| May 23 | 12 Leadership Lessons Based on 25 Years of Being Led We may not want to be administrators, but we do want our leaders to succeed. By William F. McComas We may not want to be administrators, but we do want our leaders to succeed. |
| May 18 | What's Behind the Surge in No-Confidence Votes? By Megan Zahneis Presidential turnover and faculty retrenchment have led to a failure in shared governance. |
| May 18 | Admin 101: How to Keep Partner Hires Happy (Even When They Split Up) Retaining academic couples is less time-consuming than recruiting them but should not be left to chance. By David D. Perlmutter Retaining academic couples is less time-consuming than recruiting them but should not be left to chance. |
| May 16 | Loan-Forgiveness Debate Rekindles an Old Question: Why Does College... The answers aren't so simple. By Lee Gardner The answers aren't so simple. |
| May 16 | The Provost Reported the President's Husband for Harassment. Now It... At Sonoma State, the provost reported the president's husband for harassment. Now it's complicated. By Jack Stripling At Sonoma State, a president faces calls to resign over her response to allegations against her husband. The story is even strang... |
| May 16 | The Airport Interview Is Dead The days when it was routine to organize a multiday, in-person parade of initial candidates for leadership posts are over. By Zach P. Messitte The days when it was routine to organize a multiday, in-person parade of initial candidates for leadersh... |
| May 13 | How the Hiring of a Campus President Landed Maine's Chancellor — an... By Megan Zahneis Two no-confidence votes in an incoming president's past weren't disclosed to a search committee. Now some key players in that search have received no-confidence votes of their own. |
| Jun 29 | All Workers Deserve Access to Paid Family and Medical Leave A paid family and medical leave program must be national, comprehensive, and inclusive to meet the needs of all workers, their families, and the economy. The post All Workers Deserve Access to Paid Family and Medical Leave appeared first on Center... |
| Jun 28 | Event Recap: Labor Unions and the Future David Madland's new book explains how to design a new labor system for today's economy with enhanced rights for workers, incentives for union membership, and greater sectoral bargaining. The post Event Recap: Labor Unions and the Future appeared f... |
| Jun 28 | How the American Families Plan Would Benefit LGBTQI+ Households The AFP’s robust investments in U.S. families and workers would support LGBTQI+ people. The post How the American Families Plan Would Benefit LGBTQI+ Households appeared first on Center for American Progress . |