Higher Ed: Surprising Bipartisan Reforms Bloom

Higher Ed: Surprising Bipartisan Reforms Bloom

New rules on student loans and borrowing could rein in tuition growth and bring accountability to colleges for programs with poor returns.

Bipartisan Reforms to Higher Education Persist in the Face of Attacks on Institutions

It’s rare in an era of partisan division to hear a veteran of the Clinton and Obama presidencies agreeing with a right-leaning economist who worked for George W. Bush. Yet these prominent voices from opposite ends of the political spectrum teamed up to mostly praise a law passed by the Republican Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. The purpose of the law, representing a bipartisan reform to higher education: to protect college student…