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Showing posts with label for-profit college industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label for-profit college industry. Show all posts
Friday, March 17, 2023

Three quarters of a million student borrowers have filed "borrower defense" claims against colleges: They want their student loans canceled

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 Dahn Shaulis posted a provocative commentary yesterday on Higher Education Inquirer . He reported on the recent settlement of Sweet v. Card...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Private Student-Loan Debt at an All-Time High: TICAS Releases Snoozer Report

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 According to a recent report by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), the 2020 class of college graduates has amassed $136...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Senator Elizabeth Warren's Proposal to Cancel Student Debt: A Great Idea (Just Needs a Little Tweaking)

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Earlier this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren astonished the higher education community (and me in particular) by announcing three bold propo...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Betsy Devos deserves a Congressional censure: It's nothing personal, Betsy; but you are a disaster

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Betsy DeVos, President Trump's Secretary of Education, is a disaster. Month after month, she makes decisions to aid the for-profit colle...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Trump should fire Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education for gross incompetence. If Trump fails to act, Congress needs to do whatever is necessary to drive her from office

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Let us take our minds off Russia for just a moment and focus on a massive economic problem that affects millions of Americans: the collapsi...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Trump and DeVos give aid and comfort to For-Profit Colleges: The Democrats should hold hearings on this sleazy industry

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As Senator Dick Durbin once observed, the for-profit colleges "own every lobbyist in town." And indeed they do. David Halperin , i...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Bernie Sanders' proposal for free tutiiton at public universities could actually save taxpayers money. So why don't we do that?

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Bernie Sanders has proposed free tuition at all American public universities. Let's look at that proposal and also examine the reasons ...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

For what we have done to you, we are truly sorry: The Baby Boomers should apologize to the Millennial Generation for the student-loan mess

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Frank Bruni wrote a long op ed essay in yesterday's Sunday Times  about the wrongs the Baby Boomers have committed against the Millennia...