“There are massive benefits to institutions, to students themselves in the long term in being more diverse and having a set of students from different backgrounds.”

"There is more consensus about the need to go big on college affordability than there has been in previous election cycles."

"I think this does pull back the curtain around some things that people intuitively know to be true—like, privilege tends to reproduce itself."

The bill would create a federal-state partnership to help students pay for the full costs of attendance without having to take on debt.

Popular theories for rising tuition like administrative “bloat” and student aid are at most minor contributors to tuition increases. Here's the real causes.

Connecticut’s investment in higher education has decreased considerably over the past two decades, and its financial aid programs, though still some of the country’s most expansive, fail to reach many students with financial need.

A Federal-State Partnership to Increase State Investment and Return to Debt-Free Public Higher Education

If nearly 70 percent of graduates are borrowing, 30 percent (including 35 percent of public college graduates) are not. Who are these students? What type of family or financial resources do they have at their disposal? What are their work habits? In short, what does it take to graduate debt-free

How we can lower student debt while closing the Black-White wealth gap.

Virginia’s investment in higher education has decreased considerably over the past two decades, and its financial aid programs, though still some of the country’s most expansive, fail to reach many students with financial need.