While Congress is focusing attention on credit card companies’ role in college students’ increasing debt loads, Jenna Ashley Robinson of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy assigns more importance to the role played by student loans. She discussed the topic this week in an opinion article for The News & Observer. Meanwhile, Robinson’s Pope Center colleague George Leef published a piece in The Charlotte Observer highlighting the increasing difficulty employers face when trying to hire workers with verbal skills. JLF Policy Analyst Michael Lowrey also attracted attention this week for his work on higher education issues, in an article for the Baylor University Lariat that focused on the value of college rankings.