Over a Dozen Organizations and Over 300 Signers Urge Education Department to Implement a Strong Borrower Defense Rule
On August 12, 2022, over a dozen organizations from the Protect Students and Taxpayers coalition and over 300 petition signers urged the U.S. Department of Education to implement a strong Borrower Defense rule to better protect students and taxpayers from fraud and...Coalition Letter Urging ED to Ensure Ban on Incentive Compensation is Being Followed by Colleges and OPMs
A coalition letter to Secretary Cardona urging the Department of Education to ensure that the ban on incentive compensation is being followed as it relates to colleges’ contracts with companies known as online program managers (OPMs). Read the...Gainful Employment: Using Data to Examine Potential Effects of a High School Earnings Threshold
Issued in 2014, the Education Department implemented the Gainful Employment (GE) Rule to protect students from low-quality postsecondary programs that often left them with unaffordable student debts and non-transferrable credits. Unfortunately, the last administration...Coalition Letter Urging Congress to Support the Levin Amendment to the America COMPETES Act
Coalition letter from a broad group of organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, researchers, and others concerned about career education programs urging Congress to support the Levin Amendment to the America...Student Voices
Our Captain, Matthew Feehan, joins multi-award-winning broadcast journalist, @KevinPriceLive, to discuss Education Department’s stacked deck during Negotiated Rulemaking for Higher Education 2021-22 #negreg (click for audio) #studentveterans #ProtectGIBill #VetRegs #highered
Education Department’s Unholy Alliance With Registered Lobbyists http://dlvr.it/SXcyXg
Our comments reiterate many of the points that we submitted in a Legal Memorandum to @usedgov via #NegReg last spring.
Now is the time for @usedgov to truly protect both students and taxpayers.
https://www.defendstudents.org/news/body/NSLDN_paper_Legal-Memorandum_FINAL.pdf
@barkowitz @bethanylilly @YuPersis I know there were loads put forward but I'm still holding onto hope for a simple shorter time to forgiveness for more than what was included in the EO. #negreg #Optimist
Student Enrollment Declines at Colleges Placed on Probation https://theconversation.com/student-enrollment-falls-at-colleges-and-universities-that-are-placed-on-probation-188710 via @ConversationUS @tophb The question of accrediting agency oversight is a critical element of student protections against fraud https://bit.ly/3yxBkEi #DefendStudents
@studentlegalnet Do not vote Red or you can kiss that dream goodbye. Joe and Bernie, Liz and the others want to #DefendStudents
Debt cancellation “opens the opportunity to rethink the system,” said @KyraTaylor2022. In the immediate, that means other forms of relief.
Further out, we should be thinking about free college. @TheProspect #CancelStudentDebt #DefendStudents https://prospect.org/podcasts/hurdles-to-student-debt-relief/