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The Educated Reporter: Higher Ed Seminar: Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Make College More Affordable

The Educated Reporter: Higher Ed Seminar: Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Make College More Affordable:

Higher Ed Seminar: Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Make College More Affordable



EWA held its annual Higher Education Seminar recently at Boston's Northeastern University. We invited some of the education journalists in attendance to contribute posts from the sessions. Today's guest blogger is Libby Nelson of Politico Pro. For more content from the seminar, including stories, podcasts, video, check outEdMedia Commons

Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke passionately to an audience of higher education writers about student debt, saying that American colleges are in “crisis” and that the government should take more aggressive steps to help existing borrowers and drive down costs for future college students.

“The debt will kill us. It really will,” Warren said. “It kills hope. It kills opportunity.”

In a keynote speech for the Education Writers Association conference, the