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Showing posts with label for-profit colleges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label for-profit colleges. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Shut Down the U.S. Department of Education: Why the Hell Not?

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  When Kinky Friedman ran for Texas governor in 2006 , he had a compelling bumper-sticker slogan. "Kinky Friedman for Governor. Why the...
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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reports that the Federal Student Loan Program is a mess

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines snafu as " a situation marked by errors or confusion." The word is an acronym for "Si...
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Who Profits From the For-Profit College Industry? Let's Take a Look at Adtalem Global Education

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Higher Education in the United States was once considered a civic activity intended to improve people's lives and benefit society.  Then...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Own a Piece of the American Dream: Buy Stock in the For-Profit College Industry

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  Fifty years ago, most Americans understood that education was a  public  responsibility. It was the  community's  job to operate good ...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Student Debtors Say Affordable College is More Important than Debt Forgiveness

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 National Public Radio (NPR) recently ran a poll to determine what Americans think about student-loan forgiveness. More than half the respo...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

White House Extends Pause on Student-Loan Payments Until the End of August: Will Biden Go the Full Monty?

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The White House  is extending the pause on student-loan payments until August 31st--an extraordinary development. By the time this pause en...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Baton Rouge Man Convicted of Massive Student Loan Fraud: Baton Rouge Community College Becomes Crime Scene

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 A few days ago, Elliott Sterling of Baton Rouge was convicted of massive student-loan fraud. As reported in the Baton Rouge Advocate , Ster...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Marchus v. Student Loans of North Dakota: Another Victory for Student-Loan Debtors in the Eighth Circuit

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In 2020, Debra Jean Marchus filed an adversary proceeding in a North Dakota bankruptcy court, seeking to discharge about $38,000 in student-...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021

105 Organizations Want Biden to Cancel All Student Loan Debt: It Ain't Happenin'

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 More than one hundred public interest groups sent a letter to President Biden this week urging him to cancel all student debt. How much ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

The Feds messed up the federal student loan program: And everything they do to fix it just makes things worse

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 Many years ago, when I was a fledgling attorney, my senior partner gave me some advice I never forgot.  He told me that a competent attorne...
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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Elon Musk says MBA degrees are overrated: Does it make sense to go to graduate school?

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  Elon Musk says MBA degrees are overrated, and he should know.  Musk doesn't have an MBA, and he's worth $166 billion. Here is what...
Friday, April 2, 2021

President Biden ponders $50,000 student-loan cancelation: That doesn't go nearly far enough

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 President Biden has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to prepare a memo on the president's legal authority to cancel up to $50,0...