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The Biden-Harris Student Loan Bailout is Illegal, Unfair, and Inflationary

The Biden-Harris Student Loan Bailout is Illegal, Unfair, and Inflationary

AFPI September 26, 2024 The Biden-Harris Administration’s unrelenting effort to transfer hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt to taxpayers is not just expensive. It is also unlawful, counterproductive, and deeply unfair. Student loan bailouts saddle Americans, including those without a college degree, with new tax liabilities and […]

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Newsom Vetoes Employing Undocumented Students on Campuses

Newsom Vetoes Employing Undocumented Students on Campuses

Inside Higher Ed Sara Weissman September 24, 2024 The clock is ticking for the California governor to sign or veto other key higher ed bills that would ban scholarship displacement and legacy admissions. While California governor Gavin Newsom signed some higher education–related bills into law over the weekend, a key […]

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Closures are Decimating Higher Ed. But Your Campus Needn’t Succumb

Closures are Decimating Higher Ed. But Your Campus Needn’t Succumb

Minding the Campus Rob Jenkins September 23, 2024 Since March 2020, at least 64 colleges—mostly small, private liberal arts schools—have either closed or announced they will be closing, affecting almost 46,000 students. This follows a decade that saw nearly 900 colleges shut their doors. Most of those, however, were for-profit institutions, […]

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The Long-Awaited FAFSA Autopsy Is Here

The Long-Awaited FAFSA Autopsy Is Here

Inside Higher Ed Liam Knox September 24, 2024 Government investigators dissected the federal aid form’s botched rollout at a congressional hearing Tuesday. Their findings paint a familiar picture of bureaucratic bungling, with some telling new details. A government watchdog’s investigation into last year’s rollout of the new Free Application for […]

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Conservatives play offense on higher education

Conservatives play offense on higher education

The Hill  Lexi Lonas Cochran September 20, 2024 Conservatives have secured multiple victories in the higher education space the past few years, taking advantage of missteps by opponents and a more aggressive movement that is unlikely to slow down its battle with college administrators. A major blow to affirmative action, eliminating […]

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Career education is redundant and convoluted. Gavin Newsom says he’ll fix it

Career education is redundant and convoluted. Gavin Newsom says he’ll fix it

Cal Matters Adam Echelman September 20, 2024 In summary California taxpayers fund career education at high schools, adult schools, community colleges, regional occupational programs and for-profit trade schools. Critics say it reflects “an incredible lack of coordination.” The governor says he’s producing a “master plan” to remedy that. Welcome to […]

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