Susan Dynarski

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Why people with less student debt have a harder time paying it off

Sep 1, 2015 Business Insider

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New U-M scholarship to pay full tuition, fees for some low-income, in-state students

Aug 28, 2015 MLive

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New York Times editorial board says it’s “Time to fix the Fafsa,” citing Susan Dynarski's work

Aug 27, 2015

“Legislators and the Department of Education have been trying for years to radically simplify [the Fafsa],” writes The New York Times editorial board in "Time to fix the Fafsa." They’re referring to the 100-plus-question form students and families...

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U of M prof wants to get rid of the FAFSA form entirely

Aug 24, 2015 State of Opportunity

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“To gain a student, eliminate a form,” writes Susan Dynarski for The New York Times

Aug 21, 2015

In this Sunday’s New York Times “Economic View,” Susan Dynarski explains why recent efforts to simplify the Fafsa, the financial aid application for aspiring college students, don’t go far enough. Dynarski’s prescription? Eliminate the form...

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The Hard Work Has Just Begun

Jul 13, 2015 US News

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When Big Data Meets the Blackboard

Jun 22, 2015 The Atlantic

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U-M gets $4M federal grant for pre-doctoral research training program

Jun 13, 2015 MLive

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U-M receives $4 million federal grant for predoctoral research training program in education sciences

Jun 9, 2015

The University of Michigan has received a $4 million federal grant to establish a predoctoral research training program in education sciences.The grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences unites U-M's School of...

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Rich vs. Poor: The Growing ‘Class’ Gap in Higher Education

Jun 8, 2015 The Huffington Post

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Sue Dynarski’s latest NYT TheUpshot column takes on income gap in college graduation

Jun 2, 2015

In a June 2 column in the New York Times, Ford School professor Susan Dynarski writes that “class trumps ability when it comes to college graduation.”Dynarski cites a recent publication from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which...

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The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the "New Normal" of Student Borrowing

May 19, 2015 Demos

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Education Policy Initiative releases timely brief as Congress debates bipartisan FAST Act

May 15, 2015

As Congress debates reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, and with it the bipartisan FAST Act bill introduced by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Michael Bennet (D-CO), the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative releases a timely new...

Susan Dynarski cited by Senator Elizabeth Warren at hearing on reauthorization of higher education act

May 7, 2015

Susan Dynarski’s New York Times article, “We’re frighteningly in the dark about student debt,” was cited by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during the May 6 committee hearing, “Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: The Role of Consumer Information...

Dynarski edits special journal issue devoted to promising new research enabled by longitudinal datasets

Apr 28, 2015

Susan Dynarski is guest editor of a special issue of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. The May 2015 issue is dedicated to new and powerful longitudinal datasets that are helping educational researchers better understand how policies,...

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Redshirting: Should You Hold Your Kids Back a Year? The Great Debate

Apr 25, 2015 Yahoo News

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Sue Dynarski quoted in MarketWatch article on Ivy League's 'hidden poor'

Apr 22, 2015

Sue Dynarski was quoted in a MarketWatch story addressing the struggles of low-income and first-generation students at Ivy League schools. While Columbia University served as the backdrop for “The Ivy League’s hidden poor,” published today, the...

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‘I feel like a tourist’: Inside poor students’ Ivy League isolation

Apr 22, 2015 NY Post

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Alarm Raised by Plan to Ease Credit Norms on U.S. Parent Loans

Mar 27, 2015 Bloomberg News

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“We’re frighteningly in the dark about student debt” writes Dynarski for The New York Times

Mar 21, 2015

The United States government has a portfolio of roughly $1 trillion in student loans, many of which appear to be troubled writes Susan Dynarski in the business section of the Sunday New York Times. Dynarski’s column, “We’re frighteningly in the dark...

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Birth of a Tax Loophole

Mar 16, 2015 The Atlantic

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Dynarski argues for better educational attainment data in Brookings report

Mar 13, 2015

Susan Dynarski recently co-authored “How can we track trends in educational attainment by parental income? Hint: not with the Current Population Study,” posted March 12 by the Brookings Institution.With Matthew M. Chingos of Brookings, Dynarski...

Dynarski on how to boost graduation rates at community colleges

Mar 12, 2015

In this year’s State of the Union address, President Obama put forth a plan to make a student’s first two years of community college free. But is that plan viable? Susan Dynarski sees problems that must be fixed before it can conceivably work.“How...

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6 Ways the New 'Student Aid Bill Of Rights' Will Help Borrowers

Mar 10, 2015 Money.com

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The Federal Government Has No Idea How Much Americans Owe On Student Loans

Mar 5, 2015 The Huffington Post

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Dynarski talks education and tax reform with LA Times

Jan 30, 2015

The White House is backing down on a minor provision detailed in the Obama administration’s tax reform proposals, but Susan Dynarski doesn’t think that provision should be given up on so easily. The Los Angeles Times’ Kathleen Hennessy writes...

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One small attempt at tax reform illustrates the challenges ahead

Jan 28, 2015 The LA Times

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Dynarski highlights behavioral ‘nudges’ that can lessen education disparities in NYT Upshot column

Jan 20, 2015

Vast inequalities currently exist in the U.S. education system – there is little debate among experts on this issue. And while it’s the ambitious system-level reform proposals that garner widespread attention, several seemingly simple...

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Split Fortunes Stalk U.S. Children as Inequality Waxes: Economy

Jan 15, 2015 Bloomberg News

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Dynarski's FAFSA-on-a-postcard proposal gaining traction says LA Times

Jan 7, 2015

The "FAFSA-on-a-postcard legislation is gaining traction," writes LA Times reporter Carla Rivera in the January 6 article,"Move to simplify federal student aid application form gains traction." In the coming days, Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN)...