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Department of Education Resumes Federal Student Loan Collections After Four-Year Pause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education announced this week that its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections on defaulted federal student loans beginning Monday, May 5, 2025, ending a pause that has been in effect since March 2020. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the announcement.

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When We Defund Education, We Defund Teacher Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy What happens when we strip education of its resources, devalue its professionals, and politicize its purpose? Were finding out in real-time, and nowhere are the consequences more alarming than in our efforts to diversify the educator workforce. America is undergoing a calculated retreat in federal education policy.

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Sanders, Jayapal Introduce New "College for All Act" to Eliminate Tuition for Most Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

introduced legislation Wednesday that would make public colleges and universities tuition-free for approximately 95% of American students, in what supporters call the most significant higher education investment in six decades. Jayapal highlighted the legislation's focus on addressing educational inequity. history."

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Chaos and Confusion: The State of Student Loans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s been an incredibly challenging and chaotic year in student loan space,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit organization working to eliminate student debt. The debt burden is not distributed equally among students.

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Disparities of African American Men and Obtaining a College Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It is evident that the low African American male student graduation rates at a predominantly Black institution in the northeastern United States continue to be a concern for higher education administrators. There are serious inequities among students who graduate from colleges.

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Federal Student Loans: Resolving Delinquency

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If a former student is past due on a Federal student loan, there is an obvious way to bring the loan account current. Department of Education (ED); Deferment and Forbearance. Each type of Federal student loan has a unique set of terms and conditions that determine the way interest is treated.

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TICAS Policy Agenda Tackles the Flaws in the Higher Ed System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) has released its latest policy recommendations to make postsecondary education affordable and completable for all students. “It TICAS “traced out all the different pieces that we would need to have a vibrant, acceptive, equitable higher education system,” said Gadkaree.

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