House Democrats yesterday introduced major legislation to reauthorize the landmark Higher Education Act. Although reauthorization is long overdue, the new legislation, called the College Affordability Act, proposes mainly marginal improvements to a broken higher education financing system. Moreover, it doesn't do enough to help people who don't go…

Changes in public policies that have implications for experiential education are discussed. It is suggested that the federal government's reduction of federal student assistance does not represent a policy adverse to experiential education; yet, its effects are likely to have substantially negative outcomes for programs built on 15 years of…