Oct 22, 2026
The 2025 tax law made employer student loan payments a permanent part of the tuition benefit, tied the benefit to inflation, and opened Pell Grants to short workforce programs. Add AI sending workers back to learn, and schools have three tailwinds at once. Here is why to move now, and what it takes to start.
Oct 22, 2026
The tax-free cap on employer education benefits has been $5,250 since 1986. In 2027 it moves for the first time. Here is what we know, what we don't, and what to do before January.
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Oct 14, 2026
Reimbursement was a sensible design in 1986. Then it was handed to people told to manage it as a cost, and every year somebody added one more reasonable-looking condition. Low participation is not that design failing. It is that design working.
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Sep 28, 2026
A president ranked career services just below parking. The criticism is earned, and it is a call to action. Students cannot wait for us to feel defensive.
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Sep 28, 2026
Enrollment grew last fall. Private colleges shrank. The difference is not the cliff, it is whether a school built a second channel before it needed one.
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Sep 11, 2026
Schools are not choosing leads over employers. They are choosing the only channel that has a price on it. And why web leads are the beginning of a doom loop.
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Aug 31, 2026
Every school says employer partnerships are a priority. Then look at where the money goes. Four barriers, and one cause underneath all four.
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Aug 28, 2026
A market view produces guidance. Market access produces results.
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Aug 26, 2026
The process below was mapped from a recorded conversation with a large regional employer that pays tuition directly today. It takes fourteen steps.
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Aug 20, 2026
The money to retrain America already exists. It's just badly plumbed.
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Aug 20, 2026
The employer channel is not a theory anymore. Four public companies disclose it in their filings. What they also disclose is stranger, and more useful.
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