Chronicle of Higher Education

Thousands of students would lose their financial aid, nonprofit loan servicers could be forced to close, and the department itself might furlough workers.

The move, which will increase the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources' faculty by 12 percent, stems in part from its fast-growing enrollment.

The groups' ideas come in a week that has seen a flurry of similar suggestions from organizations concerned about the nation's trillion-dollar student-debt problem.