Higher Education Funding

Higher education in America continues to be critical for both individual success and the economic and political health of our country. While college attendance has grown over the past two decades, state and federal aid has failed to keep pace with the rising cost of higher education. As a result, more students than ever must rely on student loans to pay for a four-year degree and start their post-collegiate lives with significant debt.  Read more.

Affordable Textbooks

Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, which is 20% of tuition at an average university and half of tuition at a community college!  And the prices keep going up.  We think that textbooks should be reasonably priced, students should be able to easily sell their books and used books should be easy to find.  Students also shouldn’t be required to buy additional CD-ROMs and workbooks that might not even be used in their classes.  Unfortunately, these items often come bundled with the textbook which inflates the price of the book even more and makes the books harder to sell back at the end of the semester. Read more.