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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Michael Connolly, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, argued that if the forgiveness program was cancelled, the Biden administration could use the Higher Education Act as a source of authority to forgive a greater amount of debt. He described himself as cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the case.

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Supreme Court Rules Student Loan Forgiveness Unconstitutional

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The tone of the opinion and the reasoning suggest that the conservative supermajority would oppose an administration effort to do the same thing relying on a different law,” he said. “I

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Skepticism abounds at Supreme Court hearing on debt relief

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Several Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the Biden administration’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans during a nearly four-hour hearing Tuesday. The court ended up blocking the Trump administration from ending the program.