Inside Higher Ed

Student loan debt was a problem long before Occupy Wall Street protesters added it to their list of grievances. The recession hit the younger end of the workforce particularly hard: the combination of a jobless recovery, rising tuition bills and mounting debt have become a crushing burden. Total student debt today is approaching one trillion dollars — exceeding the balance due on credit cards — and is second only to mortgage debt in American households. In fact, it's the only class of debt in which defaults are increasing.

And the fees students pay to originate federal loans will increase, according to the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project. Congress still has a year to determine how to apply the $1.2 trillion in cuts, which are to be split evenly ...

“It's sort of like the third part of the budget,” said Jason Delisle, director of the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project. “You've got the tax part, you've got the spending part, and then you've got the tax spending part. ...

... Phoenix's holding company, and Kaplan were among the worst in courting students with slim odds of graduating, said Stephen Burd, a frequent critic of the industry and the editor of Higher Ed Watch, a blog published by the New America Foundation. ...

"Looking forward into 2012, institutions in the states selected for this case study are facing uncertain futures," the author, Jennifer Cohen, wrote. "While many of them believe their budget situations have stabilized, they are still functioning under ...

Observers disagree on how likely the committee is to propose specific changes to programs or tax provisions, but the New America Foundation's Federal Education Budget Project picked out several that could be targets: college savings plans, ...

About 14 percent of the growth since 2008 is attributable to those eligibility changes, said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation, with the rest coming from enrollment growth (especially at ...

... which would be a short-term solution relying on cutting interest subsidies, the House budget would constrain Pell Grant costs in the long term, said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project at the New America Foundation. ...

Stephen Burd, editor of Higher Ed Watch, a blog published by the New America Foundation, has been a frequent critic of the for-profit industry. He says the standards are “stronger than I would have thought,” and he congratulated the coalition on his ...

... A company official declined to comment, saying that ATI would respond on Friday. The blog Higher Ed Watch features a review of the criticism of ATI. ...

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