Liberating Liberal Education

Biden Administration Planned to Facilitate Fraud as Part of Loan Forgiveness Plan

It is no secret that the Biden administration wants to forgive student loans. One—of at least eight—of its forgiveness proposals has been definitively buried, which would have forgiven up to $20,000 per borrower, or $10,000 if not a Pell Grant recipient. There were many reasons why this plan was terribly designed, and it was ultimately ruled illegal by the Supreme Court. But...

AI is Changing Higher Education

The AI boom of the past few years has rendered an inevitable reaction. Technology that is supposedly capable of replacing much of the cognitive tasks of human beings has shaken higher education to its core. The hype enjoyed by this fundamental shift in thinking has remained a fascination of our great minds of the Western...

FAFSA SNAFU, but Not FUBAR

Millions of potential and current college students fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) every year. In 2020, Congress passed a law updating the FAFSA and the aid formulas for 2024, but the Department of Education’s (ED) release of the new FAFSA has been a fiasco. Despite having three years to prepare,...