Questions and Concerns about California Assembly’s “Degrees Not Debt...
The California Assembly is presently debating a proposal that would establish a $1.5 billion “Degrees Not Debt Scholarship.”
View ArticleTrump’s Higher Education Budget Robs More Than $5 Billion From Low-Income...
Broadly speaking, President Donald Trump’s so-called “America First” budget robs needy students of more than $5 billion in support and takes us further away from the prospect of an America that is...
View ArticleHow Does the Student Debt Crisis Hit High Schoolers?
Remedial education is costing states and students millions of dollars each year — but there is a way to preempt these costs and ensure every student receives the education they deserve when they...
View ArticleTrump Rolls Back Default Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
"With more than 3,000 Americans defaulting on a student loan every day, this just adds insult to injury."
View ArticleBetsy DeVos Rescinds Protections for Student Loan Borrowers: What We and Our...
“Secretary DeVos’ first actions on student debt prove that her Department prioritizes the financial interest of debt collectors and servicers over the rights of borrowers. Eliminating these safeguards...
View ArticleFree Community College Competition Winner: Dilia Samadova
Congratulations to Dilia Samadova on winning the Free Community College Competition! Dilia’s story deeply inspired us. It’s what the movement for free community college is all about.
View ArticleWhy We’re Firing Navient This Week
April 25 marks the fifth anniversary of student loan debt hitting $1 trillion in the U.S. and not only have we not made progress in helping and protecting students and borrowers, we’re backsliding....
View ArticleBeware the Raid on Student Aid
The raid on student aid is a bigger deal for domestic policy than just another politician dipping his hand into the cookie jar. It’s a bigger deal than being emblematic of the Trump Administration’s...
View ArticleFilling the Void: New CFPB Collection Could Help Protect Student Loan Borrowers
On April 24, the Center for American Progress submitted a letter to the CFPB expressing support for the new data collection as a necessary step to identify barriers to successful loan repayment and to...
View ArticleThe Trump Administration’s Lousy Gifts to Grads
On Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered a commencement address before thousands of graduates at Liberty University in Virginia. While the speech provided those in caps and gowns with words of...
View ArticleTrump and DeVos Want to Rob Pell, Kill Student Loan Forgiveness Program
This is an emergency. Donald Trump’s first full budget for the Department of Education was just leaked, and if Congress were to pass it, it would be a disaster for students and loan borrowers.
View ArticleTrump’s Budget Is a Cynical Attack on College Students and Borrowers
It’s one thing to claim to “love the poorly educated,” as President Donald Trump once declared. It’s another to re-engineer American society to become much more poorly educated. But that’s exactly what...
View ArticleSeven Reasons Borrowers Want Sec. DeVos to Fire, Not Hire Navient
The Department of Education should act in the interest of borrowers and fire Navient. Their multi-million dollar contract deserves to go to servicers that believe they have an obligation to work in the...
View ArticleDeVos Education Department Blocks Borrower Defense: What Our Partners and...
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced steps to change two important higher education regulations—a delay of borrower defense and a renegotiation of the gainful employment rule—and... Read more
View ArticleJuly 1 Brings Higher Interest Rates on New Federal Student Loans
July 1 is an important date for students and families: it's when most changes to federal student aid - both loans and grants - go into effect. For the year starting July 1, 2017, new federal loans for...
View ArticleSix Stories That Show Why Student Loan Borrowers Need Protection
While Sec. DeVos blocks the rule, defrauded students and their loan balances hang in limbo.
View ArticleThe Lawsuit Against Secretary DeVos and How You Can Help Keep Up the Fight
It is your right, as a defrauded borrower, to be entitled to the loan forgiveness owed to you for schools that closed and programs that failed and misled you.
View ArticleResources for Undocumented Students and Higher Education
Student debt is particularly crushing for undocumented students, who are ineligible for federal financial aid. We’ve highlighted a few scholarships for both undergraduate and graduate programs for...
View ArticleWhat’s Arbitration and Why Should Borrowers Be Worried?
310 groups agree: @CFPB #RipoffClause rule restores borrower and consumer rights! So why does Congress want repeal? https://t.co/NPGWDh5l8Q — Higher Ed, Not Debt (@HigherEdNotDebt) July 24, 2017......
View ArticleEight Reasons Betsy DeVos Should Leave the Gainful Employment Rule Alone
Here are some highlights from those hearings and reasons why the GE rule should stay in place as is.
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