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How Aging Indiana Cities Might Curb ‘Brain Drain’: Help Pay Off Students’ Debt
Photo Illustration by Kyle Stokes / StateImpactThe Clabber Girl Baking Powder sign welcomes Terre Haute-bound motorists on U.S. Highway 40. Terre Haute has a problem: There aren’t enough young...
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Report Finds $32 Billion In Federal Aid Goes To For-Profit Universities
Two reports out this week tell us more about students borrowing to attend for-profit universities. The Consumerist writes a two-year investigation by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor,...
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As Tuition Increased, So Did Grant Aid
Lam Thuy Vo/NPR Tuition at many colleges has more than doubled in the last decade — but so has financial aid from grants and scholarships students don’t have to pay back. A graph from Planet Money...
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For College Grads, A Different Economy
Torsten Silz / AFP/Getty ImagesCollege students attend a lecture. Job seekers with a four-year degree were less likely to be unemployed during the recession than those with a high school education or...
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How Student Loan Debt Can Follow You To Retirement
FLICKR / 401(K) 2012The number of retirees whose Social Security payments have been reduced over student debt has increased. College students worried about being saddled by student loan debt in their...
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How Shrinking State Budgets Drive College Tuition Hikes
Kyle Stokes / StateImpact IndianaThe Campus Center at IUPUI's downtown Indianapolis campus. Public college tuition has jumped 33 percent nationwide since 2000, and an analysis from the New York Federal...
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Department of Education Report: 1 In 8 Borrowers Defaulted On Student Loans
David McNew / Getty ImagesDemonstrators in Los Angeles protest the rising cost of higher education on Sept. 22, 2012. According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 13 percent of borrowers...
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What The University Of Phoenix’s Cuts Say About The State Of For-Profit Colleges
Courtesy Photo It’s “another clear signal that there is a serious problem building in the education industry,” writes Wall Street Cheat Sheet: Multiple news outlets are reporting the company behind the...
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Why Education Is The Key To ‘The American Dream’
The New York Times"The median earnings for prime-age (25-64) working men have declined slightly from 1970 to 2010, falling by 4 percent after adjusting for inflation," write economists Michael...
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Yet Another Troubling Tidbit About Student Loan Debt
Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkMore borrowers are delinquent on their student loans than on their credit cards, as this graph from a New York Fed report shows. Click on the image to enlarge it. More...
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Why The Feds Should Pay For College
Kyle Stokes / StateImpact IndianaGraduates at Indiana University's winter commencement ceremonies at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. You read that right. All college tuition at all public institutions —...
View ArticleIndiana Student Debt 16th Highest In The Country
Indiana's 2013 college graduates have an average debt of $28,466, the 16th highest in the country
View ArticleIndiana State Partners With Local Schools To Curb College Costs
Indiana State University and the Vigo County School Corporation are working together to enroll more high school students in college credits.
View ArticleHigher Ed Commission Joins Efforts To Reduce Student Debt
Indiana's Commission for Higher Education has released materials to help state universities communicate better with students about their debt loads.
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