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Transfer rates to Historically Black Colleges and Universities rebounded last year, jumping nearly 8 percent after an 11 percent drop the previous academic year.

That finding, released in a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, is a glimmer of good news in an otherwise gloomy assessment of transfer enrollment among colleges nationwide.

The irony of attending college in the United States is that the burden of paying for it can prevent it from serving its purpose of launching young adults into stable, fulfilling lives, write two higher ed veterans in this commentary.

Forgiving student-loan debt cannot erase the trade-offs that so many young people have had to make along the way, they go on to say, but it can take many dreams and milestones off the back burner moving forward.