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Andrew Gillen
April 23, 2026
A Vanishing Opportunity to Fix Higher Ed Spending
A shrinking reconciliation window puts overdue reforms to loans, aid, and tax credits on the clock.
March 24, 2026
What to Make of the Wave of College Closures
Closures are rising as demographic decline and financial pressures take hold.
March 2, 2026
Five Takeaways from Student Loan Cost Estimates
Federal student lending has swung with politics. Reforms helped, but taxpayers are still losing money on every dollar lent.
January 21, 2026
FIRE Is Wrong About Public Syllabi
State mandates requiring public universities to post syllabi publicly offer much to gain and little to lose.
December 10, 2025
The SAVE Student Loan Repayment Plan May Finally Be on Its Deathbed
December 8, 2025
Federal Aid Just Hit $155 Billion
December 1, 2025
AI Will Make Knowledge Cheap. Higher Ed Will Survive Anyway.
October 1, 2025
Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Racial Discrimination in College Admissions—Then Things Got Weird
August 13, 2025
Short Take: The 2025 AAUP Ignores the 1915 AAUP’s Warning
July 21, 2025
The Left Can’t Land a Punch on the Big Beautiful Bill’s Higher Ed Reforms
July 8, 2025
The Big Beautiful Bill Gives Some of Higher Ed’s Ugliest Problems a Makeover
July 8, 2025
The Accreditation Cartel Faces a New Competitor
July 1, 2025
AI’s Bias: Glitch, Agenda, or Both? Why Students Can’t Trust It Blindly
June 25, 2025
Reconciling the House and Senate Higher Ed Plans
May 28, 2025
The Senate Can Strengthen Student Loan Accountability—Here’s How
May 9, 2025
Median Cost of Attendance is a Great Idea
April 30, 2025
Nine Recommendations for Trustees to Lower University Spending and Reduce Personnel
April 25, 2025
Libertarians Are the Rare Political Tribe That Is Undecided About the Trump Administration’s Strings on Federal Funding for Universities
March 17, 2025
A Private Student Loan System Should Not Mirror the Federal Family Education Loan Program
March 3, 2025
Accreditation Protects the Status Quo—It’s Time for Drastic Reform
February 17, 2025
Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed
January 31, 2025
How Did AI Get So Biased in Favor of the Left?
January 23, 2025
Republicans Stand on the Brink of a Historic Opportunity to End Government’s Role in Student Loans
January 17, 2025
Higher Education Reforms Could Finance Half a Trillion Dollars in a Reconciliation Bill
December 5, 2024
Don’t Let Colleges Keep Ducking Accountability on Student Loans
November 27, 2024
Highlights from the College Board’s Trends Papers
November 19, 2024
State Disinvestment in Higher Education is Still a Myth
October 30, 2024
Borrower Defense to Repayment Should Be Abolished
October 21, 2024
Penn Will ‘Eviscerate Academic Freedom as We Know It’
September 26, 2024
Details on the FAFSA Fiasco are Starting to Dribble Out
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