Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The state of Missouri argued that it would be damaged by the debt forgiveness through loss of revenue to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a quasi-state loan servicer. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed doubt that that would ever happen, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the position “so totally illogical.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

The state had argued that the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a non-profit government corporation, would suffer decreased revenues and be unable to make mandatory payments into a state fund. But when it kicks in, the Secretary can take exceptional measures.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

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.

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