The relationship between student debt and earnings (Robert Kelchen, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2016/09/23/the-relationship-between-student-debt-and-earnings/

Proposed student finance regulations may hamper small institutions (Robert Kelchen, Brookings)

In June, the U.S. Department of Education released a 530-page set of proposed regulations on the topic of ‘defense to repayment.’ Although this sounds like an obscure topic (and reading the document is no picnic!), these proposed rules, if adopted, could allow students to be able to have their student loan debt forgiven if colleges misrepresented themselves to students. The Department of Education is currently working through this process for former Corinthian Colleges students, and tens of thousands more students could be eligible under the proposed rules.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/07/18-student-finance-regulations-hamper-small-institutions-kelchen

Understanding financial responsibility scores for private colleges (Robert Kelchen, Brookings)

The stories of financially struggling private colleges, both nonprofit and for-profit, have been told in many news articles. Small private nonprofit colleges are increasing tuition discount rates in an effort to attract a shrinking pool of traditional-age students in many parts of the country, while credit rating agency Moody’s expects the number of private nonprofit college closings to triple to about 15 per year by next year. Meanwhile, the for-profit sector has seen large enrollment decreases in the last few years amid the collapse of Corinthian Collegesand the University of Phoenix’s 50 percent drop in enrollment since 2010.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/03/23-financial-responsibility-scores-private-colleges-kelchen

How colleges’ net prices fluctuate over time (Robert Kelchen, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2016/01/25-colleges-net-prices-kelchen