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Finally Congress has done something worth praising. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, the House and Senate each approved the aptly-named Higher Education Act, a 700-page bill containing several significant reforms in financing a college education in this country...
Students with direct loans from their educational institutions will be allowed to refinance their loans at a lower rate (provided they act on this change before...
...Act amounts to a major national investment in this generation's future. Congress and the President should be praised for fitting so many helpful provisions into this bill, even amid the continuing conservatism of the late 1990s...
Earlier, Rudenstine had been successful in helping shoot down the Riggs amendment to the Act that would have denied government money to any schools that considered race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin as factors in the college admissions process...
...Higher Education Act giveth, but it also taketh away. This page is deeply concerned about one provision of the bill, which makes it possible for universities to inform a student's parents if the student breaks state or federal laws or school policies on drug abuse. Such a provision seems to set a dangerous precedent for excessive intrusions into students' lives. A student trusted to go thousands of dollars in debt to finance an education must also be trusted to negotiate with his or her parents on non-fiscal matters...