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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

President Biden has just announced the cancelation of $10,000 in student loan debt for Americans making less than $125,000 per year. He also intends to cancel another $10,000 in debt for recipients of Pell Grants, thereby helping those who have come from the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Excessive debt is not an opportunity.

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ACE Reviews a Year of High Policy Hopes and Small Accomplishments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Although the world of higher education achieved some policy victories this year, its grandest ambitions were frustrated, according to a public policy year-in-review panel hosted Monday by the American Council on Education (ACE). Student loan forgiveness is another area where high hopes were met with partial progress. million borrowers.

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Student loan debt relief is only a Band-Aid solution - Owen Lavine, EdSource

Ray Schroeder

It seems the rest of the modernized world has figured it out; it’s time we follow in their footsteps and make college free for all. The Biden administration’s relief program would have expunged roughly $500 billion of the outstanding $1.7

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Other efforts include revamping regulations for debt-relief programs, including borrower defense to repayment; re-establishing an enforcement office within the Office of Federal Student Aid; and issuing guidance on how the department will require private nonprofit and for-profit college executives to assume personal liability.

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Student Borrowers Speak Out at Hearing on New Debt Relief Plan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program last month, he vowed that his administration would not give up the fight, swiftly announcing plans to offer debt relief under an alternative authority , the Higher Education Act of 1965. It feels like I’m being punished.” Maxwell Frost, D-Fla.,

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

At the end of the pipeline, US higher education may be educating the world's elites, but it is not producing enough good jobs for Americans. Student loan debt makes college graduates captive to the corporations who are willing to hire them--and subject to dismissal whenever they are not longer helping them make a profit.

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IDR reforms could keep families out of poverty (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College students take on debt because they believe higher education is risk-free and will pay off. Even if the president’s one-time debt relief program moves forward , absent broader reforms, students will face a complex and excessively risky decision about whether to enroll in college.