The move bolsters state efforts to supervise student loan servicers that are responsible for collecting federal education debt payments on behalf of the Education Department.
The Education Department is set to extend the pause on a majority of federal student loans for a fourth time, as the delta variant ravages the country.
There is a wide gulf among colleges and universities as to whether to mandate vaccinations or not. Some schools are avoiding vaccination metrics and mandates. Others are keeping close tabs on vaccine jabs.
The law professor argues the public university's coronavirus vaccine requirement for students and employees is unconstitutional and unneccessary.
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In fact, a University of California professor argues, it will increase student diversity.
Guidance from the Biden administration is allowing colleges to use their pandemic relief funds to wipe away outstanding balances preventing students from enrolling.
Public historically Black colleges and universities are benefitting from record government and philanthropic support amid deeper respect for the work they do with limited resources, but the legacy of inequity can complicate the reach of those dollars.
The College of William & Mary is accelerating its mandate for students, faculty and staff amid the changing conditions of the pandemic nationally and a lower-than-expected rate of voluntary vaccination.
The plotline running through all those episodes — and still more unfolding — is control of a prestigious public university in a state with intense partisan divisions.
The speaker of the House is breaking from members of her party, including Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who are urging President Biden to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loans through executive action.
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is slated to hold a hearing on reforming the standards for borrowers to discharge their student loans in bankruptcy.
The decision by California State University, the nation's largest four-year system, comes as many universities around the country are worrying about the threat of the delta variant.
Twelve women sued Liberty University Tuesday, claiming they were victims of sexual assault or other sexual misconduct and that the university not only failed to help them, but made the campus more dangerous through its policies.
The ruling could be influential as colleges across the country are preparing to reopen and deciding how to protect campuses from the ongoing public health threat of the virus.
While pausing student loan payments and wage garnishment amid economic hardships caused by the pandemic, the Education Department is fighting borrowers in court seeking relief from their debt through bankruptcy.
The Education Department has agreed to comply with a court order granting 7,200 former students of the defunct for-profit chain, Corinthian Colleges, a full discharge of their federal student loans.
Fewer students from lower-income households will be asked for additional verification of their financial information this year, as the Education Department worries about the impact of the pandemic on that vulnerable population.
UNC-Chapel Hill delayed the journalist's tenure offer, then she went elsewhere. Students say they wanted the representation she would've brought.
About 40 students had been evacuated Tuesday "out of an abundance of caution."
The Education Department is cancelling the loans of more than 1,800 people defrauded by defunct for-profit chains Westwood College, Marinello Schools of Beauty and the Court Reporting Institute.
