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Holding Colleges Accountable: How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Higher…

June 27, 2025

In May, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, broadly affecting higher education. Title III of the Act consisted of various proposed changes to existing legislation…

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A Radical Idea for American Higher Education: Let Colleges Fail

June 17, 2025

It’s not unusual for American higher education to be in the news. In recent years, the headlines have ranged from massive student loan debt to student athlete compensation and from…

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Proposed 2025 Changes to Pell Grant Eligibility

June 11, 2025

Several proposed changes to Pell Grant eligibility were included in the House of Representatives Budget Bill, passed in May. Most of the higher education community is critiquing these changes. Pell…

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Will Higher Ed See a Shift to Alternative Providers?

June 4, 2025

I’ve been fortunate to spend a significant amount of time during my professional career in senior management roles in two industries, healthcare and higher education. The growth and expansion of…

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The Evolution of Higher Ed’s Federal Financial Aid Programs in…

May 19, 2025

During the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in office, he implemented the following actions, some of which will affect federal financial aid: Issued several executive orders Sent…

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Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter

May 5, 2025

Many people talk about transforming higher education. Sadly, most of their suggestions relate to common ideas such as cutting administrative costs, reducing program majors that are underenrolled or no longer…

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Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

April 23, 2025

A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American…

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

April 10, 2025

I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog…

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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

March 28, 2025

For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early…

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