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Does New Regulatory Agreement in California Offer Glimpse Into Future Federal Regulatory Action?

NASFAA Owen Daugherty August 9, 2021 California regulators plan to apply more oversight to income-share agreements (ISAs) and will now treat them as private student loans under California’s student loan servicing law, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) announced Thursday. DFPI announced it had entered into a “landmark agreement” with Meratas, Inc., a New […]

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California moves to regulate alternative student loans through ‘landmark agreement’

Yahoo Finance Aarthi Swaminathan August 5, 2021 California’s top consumer watchdog has signed a deal with a company providing alternative student loans to increase oversight over increasingly popular income-share agreements (ISAs), Yahoo Finance has learned. The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) entered into a “landmark agreement” with New York-based Meratas, Inc., a software platform that […]

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The Number of Colleges Continues to Shrink

Inside Higher Ed Doug Lederman August 2, 2021 More public and private two-year and four-year colleges closed or merged between 2019-20 and 2020-21 than was true for for-profit institutions, a change from recent trends. The days when releases of federal data on college enrollments were newsworthy have largely passed, ever since the National Student Clearinghouse […]

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Pearson Launches App for Students

Inside Higher Ed July 30, 2021 Scott Jaschik Pearson is today launching a student app that will provide tools to use with their Pearson books. The app, according to Pearson, “will fundamentally change the way students access and experience college textbooks” by providing students with a range of tools that will allow them to highlight […]

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