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Most popular stories: Here is UB’s top 10 for 2024

University Business

These are the best college presidents of the centuryaccording to one list The American Enterprise Institute ranked over 400 college presidents from 2001-2023 based on their contributions to access, affordability and student success. Special categories highlight the best value, innovation, social mobility and historically Black colleges.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

This lesson is especially important if the US government decides to get out of the student loan business or reduce government oversight of student loans. From 1965 to 2010, the federal government was a backstop for private student loans, Guaranteed Student Loans, also known as the FFEL loans.

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Social Security Offsets and Defaulted Student Loans (CFPB)

Higher Education Inquirer

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education paused collections on defaulted federal student loans. Between 2001 and 2019, the number of Social Security beneficiaries experiencing reduced benefits due to forced collection increased from approximately 6,200 to 192,300. million in 2017 to 2.7 million to $429.7

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The Future of Public Funding in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 6

The Change Leader, Inc.

For instance, states historically have provided significantly more financial assistance than the federal government 65 percent on average from 1987 to 2012 — to postsecondary institutions and students. The streams of governmental support have varied over time as The Pew Charitable Trust s noted. So what does that look like?

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). But we as the Federal Government don’t want to be in the business of telling everybody what to do.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was in 2001 that California AB540 allowed undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, which was a huge win. He says the idea for the bill came “from the failure of the federal government regarding immigration policy, especially when it comes to young people who often come here as infants.”