Dr. Preston Cooper is a Senior Fellow at the AEI and the author of Congress's Unique Opportuniuty to Fix Federal Student Loans (https://www.aei.org/education/congress-unique-opportunity-to-fix-federal-student-loans/).

His work focuses on higher education ROI, student loans, and higher education reform. Before joining AEI in his current role, Dr. Cooper was a senior fellow in higher education policy at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a research analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, and a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research..