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GEGI

Primary Contact: 

Vitaly Golban – CEO

Email: v@gegi.co

Phone: (270) 929-5344

Website: GEGI Student Management System

GEGI is a feature-rich student management system that will streamline your school’s workflows, help maintain accurate student records, and eliminate calculation mistakes while keeping your data secure and easily accessible.
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Vector Careers, Inc

Primary Contact: 

Nathalie Mateer – VP/Partner

Email:  nmateer@vector-careers.com

1815 NW 169th Pl
#5010
Beaverton, Oregon 97006

Website: Educational Recruiting | Vector Careers

Phone: (503) 686-0262

At the heart of Vector Careers is the desire to facilitate and support education. We are a highly successful and respected national Executive Search Firm that specializes in placing high level executives to include C-Level, Regional, Mid-level Management, along with the junior and entry-level individuals that support these teams. Our proven team of experienced recruiters represents a level of expertise in the educational market that is recognized and utilized by many of the country’s leading institutions. Vector Careers is dedicated to providing candidates and companies with the highest quality and most time-efficient recruiting services. We cultivate successful partnerships with a sense of integrity, professionalism, individual pride and company spirit.
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Welcome to the Pendulum

Trace Elements: The Business of Education 

Trace Urdan
May 19, 2025
Many Americans know of President Biden’s high-profile efforts to forgive large swaths of student loans across broad classes of borrowers, first as part of Covid relief efforts and then as part of the HEROES Act, which was passed by Congress in 2003, giving the Secretary of Education authority to forgive student loans selectively in wartime. Though the Supreme Court ultimately thwarted this broad-based effort, the Biden Administration still managed to forgive approximately $189 billion in student debt for 5.3 million borrowers, an average of $35,660 per individual, a little over 10% of all total outstanding, and more than any previous administration.
This massive undertaking was accomplished under multiple auspices, the largest being Public Service Loan Forgiveness, where, through a more expansive interpretation of the George W. Bush era statute, the administration forgave $78.5 billion at an average of $78,000 (!) per borrower. Other categories included $57.1 billion in a similarly expansive interpretation of the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) program ($39,380 per borrower), $18.7 billion for individuals with total and permanent disabilities ($29,540 per borrower), and $5.5 billion through its own IDR program update, titled SAVE, before it too was blocked in court ($13,285 per borrower).

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The reconciliation bill cleared the House. Here’s how it would change higher ed.

Higher Ed Dive

Ben Unglesbee
May 22, 2025
Critics worry that the spending package, now headed to the Senate, would have a “historic and negative impact” on college access.
House Republicans on Thursday narrowly passed a massive tax and spending bill that, if signed into law, would add new financial pressures on U.S. colleges and students while extending the tax cuts instituted in 2017.
Backed by President Donald Trump and dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” the proposal includes provisions for dramatically increasing the endowment tax, a risk-sharing policy that would put colleges on the hook for unpaid student loans, and changes to the federal student aid program that critics say would reduce access to higher education.
It also includes work requirements to the Medicaid health insurance program, changes to which could impact university hospitals and leave many college students without health insurance.

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