Federal Student Aid Helps Colleges, Not Students

George Leef

That is the finding of a recent study done by Robert Martin and Andrew Gillen for the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and I write about it in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call. In my view, Martin and Gillen have torpedoed and sunk the badly damaged ship that was the “colleges can’t help their increasing costs so the government must subsidize students” argument..

  • Share

Most Commented

March 3, 2026

1.

The Ayatollah’s Friends are on Your Campus

The U.S. strike on Iran and the foreign funding shaping how universities respond to it....

March 11, 2026

2.

Bad Faith Noncompliance: Virginia Schools Flout Supreme Court and Trump with DEI ‘Rebrand’

Trump’s EOs and the Supreme Court make DEI illegal—but colleges keep rebranding it to dodge the law....

Most Read

May 11, 2026

1.

🔒

...