For-Profit Colleges Stole Our Futures
After six years of engagement on the issue of America's predatory for-profit colleges, I feel I've seen it all -- every kind of account of students deceived and abused by cynical college operators who...
View ArticleDefrauded Students Demand Loan Forgiveness on ‘Snake Oil Educations’
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the debt strike initiated by 15 former students at Corinthian, a predatory chain of for-profit colleges that lied about job placement to lure borrowers. Now...
View ArticleA 'College' Closes, But Student Debt Lives On
This week Corinthian Colleges Inc. announced that it had "ceased substantially all operations and discontinued instruction" at its remaining campuses. That should have brought the indebtedness of its...
View ArticleWrongdoing by colleges could erase student-loan debt
Proposed federal rules would make it easier for people who have been cheated or misled by a college to have their student-loan debt forgiven, U.S. Department of Education officials say. Local advocates...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Slam Obama Education Chief's 'Absurd' Logic
A trio of Senate Democrats on Monday sharply rebuked outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan for comments in which he downplayed alleged wrongdoing committed by Education Management Corp., the...
View ArticleA.G. Schneiderman Announces $102.8 Million Settlement with EDMC to Forgive...
(Source: New York State Office of the Attorney General) NEW YORK - Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that he, along with 38 other state attorneys general and the District of...
View ArticleFeds Sue DeVry University, Alleging For-Profit College Misled Students
The Federal Trade Commission sued DeVry Education Group on Wednesday, alleging the for-profit college operator deceived tens of thousands of prospective students with bogus claims about their career...
View ArticleFTC Makes Case Students Deceived in College Enrollment
I've been rattling on about a trend I'm seeing in college enrollment deception and the ability for people to file a claim to discharge, in full, their federal student loans. See this article. I've...
View ArticleHeald College Fined For Misleading Students About Job Prospects
Heald College, the jewel of a once-thriving chain of for-profit colleges owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., misled students and accreditation agencies about graduates’ employment rates and showed a...
View ArticleHow The Obama Administration Is Making It Harder To Shed Student Debt
Education Management Corp., the nation’s second-largest for-profit college company, appears to have a good friend in Education Secretary Arne Duncan. On Monday, it agreed to pay $95.5 million over the...
View ArticleSTATEMENT: CAP Experts: Borrower Defense Proposal Will Help Protect Students...
(Source: Center for American Progress) June 13, 2016 Contact: Allison Preiss Phone: 202.478.6331 Email:apreiss@americanprogress.org Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Education today issued its...
View ArticleEducation Dept Should Cut Off Aid to Colleges That Deny Students Their Day in...
Today, nine Senators, led by Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), called on the U.S. Department of Education to cut off federal student aid to colleges and universities that bar their students...
View ArticleBrown Applauds Department of Education’s Action to Protect Students Who Have...
(Source: Sherrod Brown) Monday, June 13, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today applauded the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) new rule creating strong protections for student...
View ArticleObama Administration Considers New 'Roadblocks' For Ex-Corinthian Colleges...
The U.S. Department of Education is considering new hurdles for student loan borrowers seeking to get out of their debts by claiming their schools swindled them. Days after the abrupt shutdown of...
View ArticleRanking Members Scott and Waters: Student Borrowers Deserve Immediate Debt...
(Source: Maxine Waters) Ranking Members Scott and Waters: Student Borrowers Deserve Immediate Debt Relief after Attending Schools Engaged In Deceptive & Predatory Practices Democratic Leaders on...
View ArticleStudent Debt Strike? Read This Texas Mom's Powerful Words
The 100-plus former students of for-profit Corinthian Colleges who have boldly asserted that they won't pay back their student loans have garnered widespread attention and provided a powerful jolt to...
View ArticleObama Administration Denies Debt Relief For Aggrieved Student Loan Borrowers;...
Federal law allows students who were defrauded by their colleges into taking out federal student loans to have their debts forgiven. The Obama administration has said repeatedly it will ensure...
View ArticleObama Administration Improperly Denies Student Loan Debt Relief
Federal law allows students who were defrauded by their colleges into taking out federal student loans to have their debts forgiven. The Obama administration has said repeatedly it will ensure...
View ArticleNew Criteria for Debt Relief (CAPPS - California Association of Private...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) Inside Higher Ed. The Obama administration is proposing new standards for when the federal government will forgive the student...
View ArticleEducation Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and...
(Source: US Department of Education) The Department of Education today proposed regulations to further protect student borrowers and taxpayers against predatory practices by postsecondary institutions....
View ArticleBlumenthal, Durbin, Brown, Warren Call for Comprehensive Relief for Students,...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Judiciary) Wednesday, February 10, 2016 (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and...
View ArticleFeds may ease college loan relief for defrauded students
Students will have a clearer path to loan forgiveness if they are defrauded or misled by their colleges, according to rules issued Monday by the Obama's administration, which also create a financial...
View ArticleED Issues Sweeping Proposed Rules on Borrower Defense (Cooley LLP)
(Source: Cooley LLP) 06/23/2016 Almost four months after the marathon negotiated rulemaking ended in March without consensus, the US Department of Education (ED) has released a massive describing how...
View ArticleNonprofits Are Vulnerable, Too (CAPPS - California Association of Private...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) Inside Higher Ed. For-profit colleges and their advocates are aggressively fighting the Obama administration's proposed rule...
View ArticleAfter You Paid the Tab, Obama Wants to Stick You With the Tab
Just when you thought President Obama was going to go gently into an end-of-second term good night, he wants to stick another item on the tab. Actually, it'll be your tab. If he gets his way, then...
View ArticleStudent loan bailout proposed for victims of university ‘fraud’ (Virginia Foxx)
(Source: Virginia Foxx) If that Ivy League philosophy degree doesn't result in the career of your dreams, cheer up: You may be able to have your student loans forgiven by claiming you were misled by...
View ArticleAn overreach on for profit-colleges (CAPPS - California Association of...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) The Washington Post. THE OBAMA administration has made no secret of its dislike of for-profit colleges, so it comes as no...
View ArticleStudent loan bailout proposed for victims of university ‘fraud’ (CAPPS -...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) The Washington Times. If that Ivy League philosophy degree doesn't result in the career of your dreams, cheer up: You may be...
View ArticleTaxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Pay for Unhappy College Students (CAPPS -...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) TIME. Unbeknownst to many, the Department of Education is close to finalizing a rule change that would dramatically ease...
View ArticleCONSIDERING COLLEGE DEBT Wolfe: Costly loan forgiveness amendment will burden...
The Department of Education is pushing a loan forgiveness amendment to federal student loan policy that would relieve students of their debt if they could make the case that the school “substantially...
View ArticleWith the Help of the Feds, Plaintiffs' Bar Zeroes in on For-Profit Colleges...
(Source: ILR - Institute for Legal Reform) The plaintiffs' bar is nothing if not enterprising, and it may already have trained its eyes on its next litigation target: For-profit colleges and...
View ArticleAttorney General Kamala D. Harris, 16 states, and the District of Columbia,...
(Source: California Attorney General's Office) LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, along Attorneys General from 16 states and the District of Columbia today submitted official comments to...
View ArticleBlumenthal, Murphy: More to Do to Further Strengthen Education Dept. Rule for...
(Source: Richard Blumenthal) Tuesday, August 2, 2016 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), led by U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member...
View ArticleStaking Out Sides on Student Debt Discharge (CAPPS - California Association...
(Source: CAPPS - California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools) Inside Higher Ed. The U.S. Department of Education has received more than 10,000 comments in response to a proposed rule for...
View ArticleU.S. Department of Education Announces Path for Debt Relief for Students at...
(Source: US Department of Education) The U.S. Department of Education announced today that students who were defrauded at 91 former Corinthian Colleges Inc. (Corinthian) campuses nationwide have a...
View ArticleEducation Dept to Give Debt Relief to More Corinthian Students
The U.S. Department of Education says that at an event scheduled for today in Boston with Massachusetts Attorney General�Maura Healey,�Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. will announce�that...
View ArticleFOR-PROFIT COLLEGE COMPANY TO CHANGE PRACTICES AND FORGIVE HAWAII STUDENT...
(Source: Hawaii Department of Attorney General) Microsoft Word - 623265_4.DOC D E P AR T M E N T O F T H E AT T O R N E Y G E N E R AL DAVID Y. IGE GOVERNOR DOUGLAS S. CHIN ATTORNEY GENERAL For...
View ArticleWyden, Merkley Urge Education Secretary to Provide Full Debt Relief to...
(Source: Ron Wyden) Friday, April 29, 2016 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., today urged Secretary of Education Dr. John King to create strong protections and a...
View ArticleWyden, Merkley Urge Education Secretary to Provide Full Debt Relief to...
(Source: Jeff Merkley) Friday, April 29, 2016 Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., today urged Secretary of Education Dr. John King to create strong protections and...
View ArticleFollowing Action from Brown, Department of Education Announces Clear Path for...
(Source: Sherrod Brown) Tuesday, March 29, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following action from U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has announced a clear path to loan...
View ArticleMURPHY, BLUMENTHAL: MORE TO DO TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN EDUCATION DEPT. RULE FOR...
(Source: Christopher Murphy) Tuesday, August 2, 2016 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), led by U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of...
View ArticleNew Student Debt Standards Could Allow Massive Loan Forgiveness (Cooley LLP)
(Source: Cooley LLP) 05/16/2016 This memo discusses the new federal standards for students to have their federal loans forgiven under the Final Draft of the BDTR Rule. Future Cooley memos will discuss...
View ArticleUnrepentant EDMC CEO Will 'Push Back' Against Gainful Employment Rule
At a press conference this morning, the Justice Department, the Department of Education, and a group of state attorneys general announced what Attorney General Loretta Lynch called a "landmark...
View ArticleSenate Democrats Demand Obama Administration Forgive Corinthian Students' Debts>
A group of Senate Democrats has urged the Obama administration to forgive debts incurred by thousands of current and former students at troubled for-profit schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc....
View ArticleTrump University: Is it a real scandal?
Citing authorization to bring a cause of action for fraud, a New York State appeals court has refused to throw out a fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump over his former training program for would-be...
View ArticleObama Administration Tussles With Students Over Debt Relief
This week the Obama administration put forward a plan that could fundamentally alter the way the government confronts claims of fraud by student debtors. In three days of meetings that began Wednesday,...
View ArticleDefrauded Student Loan Borrowers Face Potential Obama Administration...
Defrauded student loan borrowers seeking relief from the Obama administration are confronting an Education Department process that a senior House Democrat compared to the government’s bungled response...
View ArticleStupid Government Solutions: College Debt Edition
A proposed Education Department rule governing student loan forgiveness is subjective and vague, critics say, and could lead to a rush of litigation for many colleges — both for-profit and nonprofit —...
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