Insights & Outlooks

MarketWatch: Debt cancellation got all the attention, but this Biden proposal could impact student-loan borrowers more, critics and advocates say

 “When President Joe Biden announced in August that his administration planned to cancel $10,000 in federal student debt for most borrowers, Allison Daurio felt some relief. Under the White House’s debt forgiveness plan, Daurio , 29 would see about one-quarter of her student loan balance wiped away. But as she read more closely through the...
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I&O Masterpiece

This is an I&O piece written by Mad Cool. She is writing this Insights & Outlooks piece to remind you to add her as a user mcool, do not send me an email to confirm my user profile. Please add me as a team member but I am not a team member I am a…
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Born of Necessity, Emergency Student Aid Should Become Standard Operating Procedure

Born of Necessity, Emergency Student Aid Should Become Standard Operating Procedure

In the wake of two years that have upended the financial and educational well-being of millions of students, emergency aid has become a watchword of the day for many higher education institutions. Once thought of as “point solutions” used by a relatively small number of colleges and universities, cash assistance programs are now increasingly co...
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Completion with Quality and Value: Why Credit for Prior Learning Stands out as a College Completion Fund Strategy

Completion with Quality and Value: Why Credit for Prior Learning Stands out as a College Completion Fund Strategy

While the fate of the Build Back Better Act is currently unclear, there are parts of the proposed legislation that could survive in some form. One important part of the proposal is the College Completion Fund, a fund that could provide as much as $550 million for scaling evidence-based programs to improve retention and completion…
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Embedding Equity within Indiana’s Educational Attainment Goals

Embedding Equity within Indiana’s Educational Attainment Goals

In early 2020, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released its fourth strategic plan, Reaching Higher in a State of Change, which provides a vision and a blueprint focused on pathways for student success from the recent high school graduate to the returning adult—ensuring greater economic opportunity and a stronger Indiana. The Commissio...
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Making College Work for Working People

Making College Work for Working People

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the vital role that working people play in our nation and economy. Working people prepare hospital equipment and treat patients; they manufacture and distribute essential goods; they keep the internet and other critical utilities operating.  While scores of working people have kept our country running during the pa...
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New Players are Emerging to Serve Returning Adult Learners—Federal  Policy Needs to Reflect That.

New Players are Emerging to Serve Returning Adult Learners—Federal Policy Needs to Reflect That.

2021 should be an eventful year for federal policy conversations related to postsecondary access and completion. However, much of the national discussion has centered on removing barriers to traditional higher education. Such approaches rarely account for the needs of the adult learners that are now the majority on college campuses or those learner...
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A Second Chance at Higher Education

A Second Chance at Higher Education

Growing up in a low socioeconomic area in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by gangs, violence, and drugs, I never thought that college was a place for me. Instead, as a teen, I envisioned myself selling drugs, robbing people, and spending most of my days in prison. So when I was 20 years old and was sentenced…
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