Coalition Welcomes Department of Education’s Third-Party Servicer Guidance
In a letter to the Department of Education, partners from the Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition welcomed updated guidance from the Department...
Understanding State Authorization, Reciprocity, and NC-SARA to Protect Distance Education Students
In a joint fact sheet, The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) and National Student Legal Defense Network (Student Defense) partnered...
Letter to the 118th Congress
The Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition writes to the 118th Congress to share the coalition’s higher education priorities for 2023 and beyond....
Coalition Letter on Pell Eligibility for Students Who Are Incarcerated, Implementing 90/10 Loophole Regulations, and Regulating Institutional Changes in Ownership
On August 26, 2022, a dozen member organizations from the Protect Students and Taxpayers sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education to...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
Coalition letter to US Department of Education on Actions in Response to Zovio, Inc.’s Fraud.
Coalition letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to promptly address issues raised by the recent California state court decision finding...
What Will Happen If We Reinstate the Gainful Employment Rule?
By: Michael Itzkowitz, Senior Fellow, Higher Education, Third Way, Shelbe Klebs, Education Policy Advisor, Third Way Originally posted via Third Way...
Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition Letter on NACIQI Reviews and Processes
Coalition letter to the U.S. Department of Education and the members of the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity...
Letter to the Department of Education on the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
Letter from Veterans Education Success to the Department of Education expressing concern about the Higher Learning Commission's (HLC) continued...
Letter to the Department of Education on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSACHE)
Letter from Veterans Education Success to the Department of Education (ED) to bring additional attention to the Middle States Commission on Higher...
Letter to the Department of Education on the Western Association of Colleges and Schools, Senior College and University Commission (WASCSR)
Letter from Veterans Education Success to the Department of Education requesting attention to the Western Association of Colleges and Schools,...
Student Protections and the Value of a Gainful Employment Rule
The Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that all career education programs receiving federal student aid “prepare students for gainful employment in...
Accountability That Works: Restoring Gainful Employment and Strengthening Higher Education Accountability Measures
The Gainful Employment (GE) Rule was intended to protect students from low-quality programs that often left them with a mountain of debt and credits...
Coalition Letter Urging Congressional Leaders to Maintain the Build Back Better Exclusion of For-Profit Schools from Proposed Pell Increase
Coalition letter from 26 organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, and researchers urging...
Coalition Letter Response to ED’s Request for Public Comments on 90/10 Loophole
Coalition letter from 13 organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, faculty and staff, civil rights advocates, researchers, and other...
Searching for Common Ground: Week One of Negotiated Rulemaking
By: Kyle Southern, TICAS and Sarah Sattelmeyer, New America Last Monday, negotiators for this fall’s Affordability and Student Loans...
TICAS Recommendations for Negotiated Rulemaking Topics
Recommendations in response to the May 24, 2021 Federal Register notice soliciting input on topics to be included in the U.S. Department of...
37 Groups Share Priorities for Negotiated Rulemaking
Coalition letter from 37 groups to the Department of Education sharing its negotiated rulemaking priorities including substantial student and...
Dreams Dashed: California Colleges Where Many Borrow But Few Repay
Over two million undergraduates each year enroll in a college based in California. While many students find that student loans are an investment in...
Coalition Letter to Education Secretary Cardona
Twelve organizations working on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, faculty and staff, researchers, civil rights advocates, and others...
Coalition Letter from 22 Groups Urging Secretary Cardona to Immediately Address Borrower Defense Claims
Twenty-two organizations that work on higher education accountability, and advocate for students, military service members and veterans, low-income...
No More Corinthians: Why Students Need a Strong Borrower Defense Rule
Most colleges and universities help millions of Americans earn a degree or diploma to lead to economic security and a better life. In the wake of...
Why Students Need a Strong Gainful Employment Rule
Most colleges and universities help millions of Americans earn a degree or diploma to lead to economic security and a better life. In the wake of...
Coalition letter from 53 organizations to the 117th Congress
Fifty-three organizations working on behalf of students, consumers, veterans, service members, faculty and staff, civil rights, and college access...
19 Organizations Write to Secretary DeVos regarding findings of fraud against College America and other schools owned by Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE)
The letter asks the Department of Education to take immediate steps to stop federal student aid from flowing to colleges owned by the Center for...
Protect Students and Taxpayers Coalition Two-Pager
Protect Students and Taxpayers is a coalition of organizations working on behalf of students, veterans, facultyand staff, civil rights advocates,...
Infographic – What Is The 90/10 Loophole?
Veterans Education Success View the infographic
Memo on Senate Vote on Student Loan Borrower Defense Rules
The Institute for College Access & Success Memo to interested parties on the borrower defense rules in advance of the vote in the U.S. Senate on...
Reducing Harm from Sudden College Closures
Cross-posted from Yan Cao, The Century Foundation When colleges shut down in orderly ways and with adequate advance public notice, the closures do...
AFT v. DeVos
Student Defense Student Defense filed a landmark federal lawsuit on behalf the American Federation of Teachers, the California Federation of...
House slaps down DeVos policy on student debt
Cross-posted from American Federation of Teachers In a significant win in the battle to protect student loan borrowers, the House of Representatives...
Student Advocates Announce Closed School Discharges for Over 30,000 Student Borrowers
The Project on Predatory Student Lending, Student Defense, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates WASHINGTON, DC – Student Defense and the...
The Evolution of the For-Profit College Industry: New Challenges for Oversight
Cross-posted from the Institute for College Access & Success In recent years, enrollment at for-profit colleges has fallen steeply due to...
Students Seek More Sanctions Against Secretary DeVos Following Disclosure of Tripled Illegal Loan Collections
The Project on Predatory Student Lending BOSTON– Former Corinthian Colleges students are asking a court to increase the monetary...
Betsy DeVos’ Cruel Math Denies Relief to Defrauded Borrowers
Cross-posted from Ben Miller, Center for American Progress Thousands of borrowers from the long-defunct Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical...
Coalition Letter in Support of Repealing the 2019 Borrower Defense Rule
In September, the Department of Education released a new version of the “Borrower Defense to Repayment” rule that would make it virtually impossible...
Letter from 42 Organizations Urging Senator Alexander to Protect Consumers and Taxpayers
42 organizations urge Senator Lamar Alexander to include robust consumer protection of students and taxpayers in any reauthorization of the Higher...
Top 10 Ways the New Borrower Defense Rule is Worse for Borrowers
Federal law allows students whose schools have defrauded or cheated them to have their loans discharged. Prior to 2016, there were few details in...
Dear Colleges: Take Control of Your Online Courses
Cross-posted from Stephanie Hall and Taela Dudley, The Century Foundation As public and nonprofit colleges have sought to expand their online course...
Defrauded Students Left Holding the Bag Under Final “Borrower Defense” Rule
Cross-posted from the Institute for College Access & Success Claiming to protect students and hold colleges accountable, on Friday the...
Should Colleges Spend the GI Bill on Veterans’ Education or Late Night TV Ads? And Which Colleges Offer the Best Instructional Bang for the GI Bill Buck?
Cross-posted from Veterans Education Success Every year, around 700,000 Post-9/11 GI Bill students enroll in an institution of postsecondary...
Coalition Letter to Senators Hassan and Durbin in Support of the PROTECT Students Act
Coalition letter from 56 organizations representing and advocating for students, families, taxpayers, veterans and service members, faculty and...
What to Know About the Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule
Fact sheet on the Borrower Defense to Repayment (BD) rule. The Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule offers students relief from federal loans borrowed...
What to Know About the Gainful Employment Rule
Fact sheet on the Gainful Employment (GE) rule. The Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that all career education programs receiving federal student...
What to Know About the Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule
Fact sheet on the Borrower Defense to Repayment (BD) rule. The Borrower Defense to Repayment Rule offers students relief from federal loans...
What to Know About the Gainful Employment Rule
Fact sheet on the Gainful Employment (GE) rule. The Higher Education Act (HEA) requires that all career education programs receiving federal student...
How Much Education Are Students Getting for Their Tuition Dollar?
Cross-posted from Stephanie Hall, The Century Foundation With frequent media reports about highly paid presidents and expensive college sports...
Student Voices
The Department of Education Announces Public Hearings on Higher Education Rulemaking
@usedgov will hold public hearings Apr 11-13. https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/department-education-announces-public-hearings-higher-education-rulemaking #highered #negreg #edpollicy #onlinelerning #thirdpartyservicers #distanceeducation
@JStein_WaPo I would like to see him work as hard personally to either #CancelAllStudentDebt or push 4 restoration of the bankruptcy protections he was instrumental n having removed.They need some common sense. #negreg isn’t that.Lets all the wrong ppl n2 the process who don’t want it to end
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“The findings of this study are deeply alarming," said @nataliaabrams @DebtCrisisOrg. “We call on policymakers to take every step necessary to #ProtectBorrowers, including extending the payment pause and canceling debt.” #CancelStudentDebt #DefendStudents
RELEASE: #BeyondStudentDebt Report Reveals Student Loan Borrowers Struggling to Meet Basic Needs
https://studentdebtcrisis.org/release-beyond-student-debt/
“Default is a financial disaster for student loan borrowers...The Court should reject efforts to interfere with this critical relief; relief that Congress authorized and @SecCardona deemed necessary.” @KyraTaylor2022 #DefendStudents 2/2 https://www.nclc.org/defending-student-loan-cancellation/
Debt-free futures! @Dreamdefenders #DefendStudents #CancelStudentDebt #ProtectBorrowers
People's Rally for Student Debt Cancellation #CancelStudentDebt https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAVojvVMGb