MEDIA ADVISORY

DATE: 1-5 p.m. June 13, 2016

EVENT: Education finance reform experts from Australia, England, Sweden and Germany talk about how they reformed student loans in their countries. The University of Michigan conference informs the U.S. conversation around student loans with perspectives on how other countries structure aid, borrowing and repayment.

The international session will be followed by a discussion with U.S.-based student loan experts including Susan Dynarski, a U-M professor of education, public policy and economics; Matthew Chingos of the Urban Institute; Rohit Chopra of the U.S. Department of Education; Jason Delisle of the Federal Education Budget Project at New America; and Kevin James of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute.

PLACE: Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave. SW, Gold Room (2168), Washington, D.C.

SPONSOR: Education Policy Initiative at the U-M’S Ford School of Public Policy

RSVP: Media who would like to attend can RSVP here. The event will also be live-streamed: please check here the day of the event.

INFORMATION: www.edpolicy.umich.edu/student-loans

MEDIA CONTACTS: Greta Guest, University of Michigan, 734-936-7821, gguest@umich.edu; or Julie Monteiro de Castro, Education Policy Initiative, 734-615-6978 or 248-533-8628 (cell), jmdc@umich.edu