After temporarily relaxing its audit of students applying for federal grants and loans this academic year, the Education Department is fully resuming the widely criticized process, known as verification, for the 2022-2023 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, cycle.
The delta variant’s summer surge, driving viral infections and covid-19 hospitalizations higher from coast to coast, raises the stakes in the divide between schools that mandate vaccination against the virus and those that do not.
The Biden administration is expanding the period of eligibility for former ITT Tech students to have their debts canceled through the department’s closed-school discharge program.
Higher education experts worry design flaws in the experiment will undermine the need for federal financial aid to support dual-enrollment programs.
Some professors are protesting, signing petitions and even resigning amid the surge in coronavirus cases.
The Covid Campus Coalition uses social media to try to spread science-backed information about the importance of vaccines to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The inability of the Education Department to track down 10,868 people owed refunds reveals deep flaws in the federal government's debt collection apparatus.
The Education Department will grant borrowers who are severely disabled automatic federal student loan forgiveness, rather than requiring them to fill out paperwork for a benefit provided by law.
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.
