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

As expected, the hearing focused on whether federal statute allows the Biden administration to forgive student loans, whether the plaintiffs have standing to challenge the plan and whether the justices should apply a stricter standard in their review of the two lawsuits before the court.

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