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Author Archives: Stephen Burd

Stephen Burd is a senior policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy institute in Washington, DC. He is on his second stint at New America, following a brief stop at Education Sector, an education think tank in DC, where he also served as a senior policy analyst. At New America, he has helped shape the foundation’s work on higher education policy and on student financial aid issues. He is the author of two volumes of “Undermining Pell,” which examines how colleges’ pursuit of prestige and revenue is hurting low-income students. Burd has received multiple national reporting awards from the Education Writers Association for his coverage of federal higher education policy and his investigative work on the student loan industry. He has also published articles and op-eds in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly, and provided expert commentary for media outlets including America Public Media’s Marketplace, the CBS Evening News, CNN, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio. Before coming to New America in 2007, Burd worked for 15 years as a reporter and senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he primarily reported on student aid policy and the inner-workings of the U.S. Department of Education. Burd holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Swarthmore College. He lives with his wife and daughters in Silver Spring, Md.

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Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

How public colleges use merit aid to compete in the out-of-state student arms race

by Stephen Burd May 18, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Leveling the playing field for low-income students

by Stephen Burd May 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to students and faculty during a campaign stop at New Hampshire Technical Institute, Tuesday, April 21, 2015, in Concord, N.H.
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Hillary Clinton should acknowledge that tuition tax breaks don’t work

by Stephen Burd April 22, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education, News

Which college will replace Wash U. as the least socioeconomically diverse in the country?

by Stephen Burd April 8, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

A ‘promising’ way to help low-income students to and through college

by Stephen Burd March 25, 2015April 8, 2021
Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs.
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Are public universities becoming bastions of privilege?

by Stephen Burd March 11, 2015April 8, 2021

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