The name "Progressive Federalism" brings to mind the analogy of a drug habit that is difficult to kick once hooked.



This article covered many meaningful higher education institutions' improvement measurable metrics but it failed to address one fundamental issue - recent researches have pointed out that federal student loans have contributed to the escalation of higher education institutions total (tuition + living) costs in recent years.



Federal guaranteed student loan is the drug habit that we need to figure out a way to kick if we want to resolve the escalating costs of higher education institutions.



Perhaps, at both federal and state level, we need to devise incentives for college (or in general post high school education) students and their families who declined to take on any federal/state guaranteed loans or grants.



And, for all higher learning/education institutions (or post high school education), we need to also devise incentives for these institutions to reduce operating costs as well as the performance metrics covered in this article.



Breaking this drug habit will bring fundamental health to the higher education institutions (including all post high school education institutions) for all stakeholders.