On May 14, 2025, Student Borrower Protection Center's Press Release "Stealing the American Dream": Borrowers, Experts Warn of Trump's Scheme to Raise Costs, Block Opportunity for Students and Families featured CSHE faculty affiliate Jonathan Glater.
“This is a cumulative effect of the changes implemented or proposed by the Trump Administration as well as Republicans in Congress: the lifting of the opportunity ladder out of reach of a greater number of students and their families,” said Jonathan Glater, a law professor at UC Berkeley and the co-director of the UC Student Loan Law Initiative, in his prepared testimony“It is this overall impact that makes the title of this forum, ‘Stealing the American Dream,’ so apt… The overall result of all these policies is the entrenchment of inequality across multiple dimensions: class and race, of course, but also disability status and gender identity.”