DeVos Education Department Blocks Borrower Defense: What Our Partners and Allies Think
14 June 2017
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced steps to change two important higher education regulations—a delay of borrower defense and a renegotiation of the gainful employment rule—and… Read more
Blog, PressSeven Reasons Borrowers Want Sec. DeVos to Fire, Not Hire Navient
25 May 2017
The Department of Education should act in the interest of borrowers and fire Navient. Their multi-million dollar contract deserves to go to servicers that believe they have an obligation to work in the best interest of borrowers.
BlogTrump’s Budget Is a Cynical Attack on College Students and Borrowers
19 May 2017
It’s one thing to claim to “love the poorly educated,” as President Donald Trump once declared. It’s another to re-engineer American society to become much more poorly educated. But that’s exactly what the Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposal attempts to do.
BlogTrump and DeVos Want to Rob Pell, Kill Student Loan Forgiveness Program
18 May 2017
This is an emergency. Donald Trump’s first full budget for the Department of Education was just leaked, and if Congress were to pass it, it would be a disaster for students and loan borrowers.
BlogThe Trump Administration’s Lousy Gifts to Grads
17 May 2017
On Saturday, President Donald Trump delivered a commencement address before thousands of graduates at Liberty University in Virginia. While the speech provided those in caps and gowns with words of encouragement, when it comes to actions during the first 100 days, the only well wishes this administration is sending are to companies and schools that take advantage of students.
Here are six “gifts” the Trump administration has given current, former and future students during its first few months in office.
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