The Chronicle: Advisory Panel Hears Pleas for Increased Federal Student Aid and Against Accountability Testing
College presidents and students who attended a public hearing here on Monday urged a federal advisory panel to recommend an increase in federal student aid and to reject one-size-fits-all accountability measures.
During a morning session of the hearing, held by five members of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education, nine presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities and dozens of students described the difficulties that needy students face in pursuing a higher education and warned of mounting student debt in the face of declining federal support.
“We must recommit to policies and practices that make higher education accessible to young people from every socioeconomic group,” said Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Inside Higher Ed: Public Hearing, Take 2With less than five months until the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education is set to release its final report to Secretary Margaret Spellings, this much is evident: Commissioners will have no lack of information, no shortage of opinions and no scarcity of student anecdotes from which to draw.
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