Lifting an Exasperating Veil

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May, 2024 Washington —  This week Harvard Education Press is publishing Lifting the Veil on Enrollment Management , by Stephen J. Burd, edit...

Student Financial Aid Application Woes

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May, 2024 Washington — Here is a critical analysis that will seem familiar to those struggling with a FAFSA student financial aid applicatio...

Re-Visiting the Rural Rage Controversy

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April, 2024 Lincoln and Washington —  Last month, when I wrote a mixed review of White Rural Rage , an important but flawed book about rural...

White Rural Rage, Reviewed

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March, 2024 Lincoln and Washington —  White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy , a new book by political scientist Thomas Schaller...

Reject the Proposed Price-Fixing Settlement

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January, 2024 Washington — Because it is one of the largest, most-consequential higher education lawsuits in recent memory, federal Judge Ma...

Civil War Echos in a Puzzling Name Choice

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December, 2023 Lincoln — Looking recently into the family tree, I came across the name Abel McClellan Wimer, born 1869, son of John Elias Wi...

FAFSA Delays Are Only Part of the Problem

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December, 2023 Washington — A bipartisan group of thirty-seven U.S. senators recently wrote urgently to the Secretary of Education, trouble...

The Causes of National Student Loan Dysfunction

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November, 2023 Washington — Is the nation's long-running student loan imbroglio a failure of program implementation or are its causes mo...

Crackdown Welcome, but Decades Too Late

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October, 2023 Washington —  Welcome news from the U.S. Department of Education:  it is finally cracking down on student loan servicers that...

No One Looks Good in Prison Deal

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September, 2023 Lincoln —  Seldom is a public policy deal struck that does not have winners somewhere along the way, but the recent state pr...