Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Department of Education, escalating tensions over what the union describes as an illegal and abrupt shutdown of student loan relief programs that has left millions of borrowers facing higher payments amid economic uncertainty. seeks a court order to restore borrowers' access to IDR plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2024

Specifically, the school was alleged to have prolonged how long it would take for students to complete the second phase of the program, a final “capstone” research and writing project. Reverse redlining [there was that] we alleged Walden was pushing harmful practices to women and Black students.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

The grant will fund research to develop an evidence-based theoretical model for sustainable, equitable career pathways within colleges and universities that house TRIO programs, specifically Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC), Student Support Services (SSS), and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program offers to cancel certain types of federal student loans for people who spend 10 years working in public service jobs and meet the program requirements. Borrowers can get the form online, from loan servicer MOHELA, or using the PSLF Help Tool. Have Questions?

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Student loan forgiveness can wipe out part or all of your student loan debt. The big news on the student loan forgiveness front is that the federal government plans to forgive up to $10,000 in federally held student debt, or up to $20,000 if you previously received a Pell Grant. ( See more below ).

Student loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

billion in student debt cancellation for over 60,000 borrowers under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. This latest relief brings the total number of public service workers who have had their student loans forgiven under the Biden-Harris administration to over 1 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Many experts believe that the Biden administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness, which offers $10,000 of debt relief to most borrowers and $20,000 to Pell Grant recipients, is dead in the water at the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. They show that these sorts of suits have skyrocketed since 2007.

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