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Posted on 04/20/2026 6:45:58 PM PDT by thegagline
The U.S. Department of Education has proposed new rules aimed at holding colleges and universities accountable for programs that leave students with low-earning jobs as the federal student loan debt nears $1.7 trillion.
The proposal***would establish an accountability framework designed to address concerns that many students are financially worse off than if they had not attended college.
The plan*** is a part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which aims to cut taxes, according to the department.
***programs that fail to meet earnings benchmarks in two out of three consecutive years could lose access to federal student loans. If failing programs account for at least half of an institution’s federal financial aid recipients or funding, they could also lose eligibility for Pell Grants.
“The Trump Administration’s proposed accountability framework is grounded in common sense: if postsecondary education programs do not leave graduates better off, taxpayers should not subsidize them,” Nicholas Kent, the under secretary of education***
The department said it would use census data to measure graduates’ earnings four years after leaving school. Undergraduate program graduates would be required to earn more than the median income of working adults ages 25 to 34 who hold only a high school diploma and are not enrolled in higher education.
***Mississippi has the highest student debt burden relative to income, with borrowers owing an amount equal to 56% of the state’s median income. Residents there hold a combined $17 billion in student loan debt, along with the 14th-highest default rate, according to a personal finance report.
In California, residents owe about $151.5 billion in student debt, though the state also offers numerous grant and loan forgiveness programs. Over 70% of college graduates have not found jobs in their field, raising concerns about the return on investment in higher education.***
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So those “Womyn’s Studies” and African-American Studies degrees were damn-near worthless in the real world? Who knew??
It’s projected that 25% of small liberal arts colleges are going to go under in the next few years.
Get rid of the utterly unconstitutional Dept. of Education!!!!
This initiative will further dumb down advanced degrees, and endanger the general populace.
Oh they aren’t totally worthless.
They’re prerequisite for all sortsa federal “jobs”.
Or Chief Diversity Officer at places like Apple.
Other then that...yeah, totally worthless.
sounds like a good start ...
Any degree with “Studies” in the title should be scrapped. Move any currently enrolled “Studies” major to Barrista Engineering as that is where the will be working post-grad.
“accountability framework”
How about just STOP all student loans by fed gov? That was by far the stupidest thing that could have been done to make college “affordable.” It gave schools carte Blanche to raise tuition several times higher than the inflation rate and caused absolutely worthless degree programs to explode.
We need to put an end to useless lib arts degrees and electives all together. If you are going to be an engineer the nothing but the required engineering related courses. If you have not mastered language enough by the time you enter college then you probably should not be there. This goes for all the other waste of time and money courses. Universities have become money center industries instead of what they should be. End tenure for Professors! Set their pay based on the post graduate success of the schools students. Fire them at any time regardless of how long they have taught if they don’t meet the standards. Finally, more funding and promotion for Tech Schools to be held to those same high standards.
Non-marketable degrees should be funded only out of pocket.
We don’t belong in the College Loan Business. That’s what Banks are for.
I’m not disagreeing but am interested in how you think this will happen.
I agree. Years ago the Grace Commission recommended changing the approach from direct loans to guaranteed, and gave actual figures for the savings. Naturally some Demagogic Party demagogue on the committee claimed that J. Peter Grace was against education.
Graduate unemployment might be a better metric.
Back in the day, you had to be pursuing a degree in a field that guaranteed a post graduate income to get a student loan.
At a minimum, colleges need to quit misleading (lying to) students.
New student: I want to major in poetry.
Poetry department: Good choice. You will learn many valuable skills.
Because common sense is not common? Anyone with any sense at all could understand that subsidizing bad policy is going to lead to more bad policy. And as hard as it is to believe, some Americans will deliberately do the wrong thing to protect their job, and other Americans will give their lives in defense of their constitution to give them that right.
I think the first two years should be about getting a good well-rounded liberal arts education, with the specialization in the final two years.
The purpose of a well-rounded liberal arts curriculum is to train your mind to think. Of course nowadays the purpose of education is more to indoctrinate.
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