The American Council on Education, the chief lobbying group for the higher education industry, wants the next president to repeal the tax on wealthy universities’ endowments and work to increase the Pell Grant to $13,000 from $7,395 as a way of making college more affordable, among other policies. Former president Donald Trump has released few details about his plans for higher education. He’s said that he wants to fire accreditors to reclaim colleges from “the radical left,” create a free national online college and abolish the Education Department. Experts expect Vice President Kamala Harris to build on the Biden administration’s efforts to make college more affordable, forgive student loans and protect students from bad actors. Harris’s campaign website touts investments made under President Biden in historically Black colleges and universities as well as recent increases to the Pell Grant.
