James Kvaal

We need to recognize that we shouldn't be making loans to people who are unlikely to be able to repay them.

It's not doing someone a favor.

Even if your goal is creating opportunity for a low-income student or student of color or helping people pursue a career in the arts or go to divinity school, the right way to finance that is not a loan the student cannot afford to repay.

So I think it is a step forward that we now have agreement across the parties on that.

You cannot build a higher education system that delivers more value to students by raising the cost of student loans and slashing funding for universities and putting them under assault from all different kinds of financial resources.

So there is a blueprint for strengthening universities that's happening at many public colleges and universities in red and blue states that involves investing in helping all students succeed and connecting programs more closely to careers and finding new sources of data that you can use to close the gap between campus and workplaces.

That's not what they're doing.