Higher Education Enrollment Cliff Demands Change
Based on birthrate data from the Centers for Disease Control, the number of college-aged Americans will dramatically decline beginning in 2025. Many experts have deemed this as the “enrollment cliff” for higher education. However, the most recent data from...
Three Ways to Improve College Retention Rates
64 percent of all students who entered a four-year Bachelor’s degree program in 2014 graduated in six years. (Source: nces.ed.gov and educationdata.org). While that’s an improvement from twenty years ago, it’s not a good sign we measure the success...
Cohort Default Rate Problems
A Major Problem for Students and Families In January 2022, the U.S. General Accountability Office wrote about significant problems that Federal Student Aid and Federal Servicers would face when repayment was set to resume in September 2022 there will be cohort default...
Student Loan Servicer Layoffs
Nelnet Announces Plans to Lay Off Over 500 Workers For the second time in the past year, one of the largest student loan servicers in the country is reducing staff. Last week, Nelnet announced layoffs of approximately 550 associates due to a...