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Campus Progress Attends Higher Education Panel including Deputy Undersecretary of Education Robert Shireman

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Graduation Cap on Cash

Graduation Cap on Cash

“If we don’t have climbing walls and sushi bars in our universities, does that make us un-American?”

So asked a panelist in a half-joking comment Thursday about the gravely misplaced priorities of higher education institutions. Five speakers, including Robert Shireman, the deputy undersecretary of Education for the federal administration, met at a discussion hosted by the Education Sector and Washington Monthly at George Washington University. In light of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA) that is currently before congress, the panelists offered up specific strategies to improve the system with the goal of increasing affordability, graduation rates, and overall quality of education. (more…)

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CP Statement: Improving Community Colleges Depends on Switch to Direct Lending for Student Loans

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

“Campus Progress applauds President Obama’s new community college initiative, which would allow millions of Americans to pursue higher education and become more competitive in the workforce.

The funding of this new initiative depends in part on passage of legislation enacting the President’s proposal to switch to all direct lending for federally-guaranteed student loans. That plan would save the government approximately $87 billion over 10 years, and part of this savings – $12 billion – would be used to fund the community college initiative.

Thus, a clear choice has just become that much more obvious: Congress can vote for more wasteful subsidies for banks, or they can stand with young people and displaced workers seeking an education.”

*Cross-posted at Students Over Banks.

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Community Colleges & Unmet Need

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The Institute for College Access and Success put out a fact sheet yesterday examining the challenges that many community college students face when it comes to financing their education. Most importantly, TICAS find that community college students have higher levels of unmet need—the gap between available resources, including financial aid, and the cost of education—than public and private four year students. Here are a few quick graphs made from the data:

Note: These chart reflects the percentage of students who have documented financial need, not all students. In case you were wondering what portion of all students at the different kind of schools had documented financial need: (more…)

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