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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

William McKinley – 25th President of the United States NOTABLE ALUMNI of AUGSBURG COLLEGE, Minneapolis, MN Dr. Peter Agre, 2003 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Rev. Clausen, former President of the World Bank NOTABLE ALUMNI of CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE, Claremont, CA Henry Kravis ’67 and George R. Former U.S.

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Letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona Regarding Borrower Defense to Repayment and Gainful Employment Regulation (Michael DiGiacomo)

Higher Education Inquirer

I have been fighting this industry since 2003-2006, when I realized I had been played badly by these deceptive debt factories. Why should the same corporate banks that helped the scamster schools be allowed to keep the funding? I am a former student and victim of 2 closed for-profit scam colleges and the student loan industry.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

The fact remains that no university went bankrupt as a result of the 1981 cuts even with one being cut by 47% while, in direct contradiction of Lambert’s views on the effectiveness of academic committees, the senate at another university voted down a proposal by its vice-chancellor to open a campus in Singapore.

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that the HEROES Act of 2003 gives clear authority for debt cancellation by authorizing the Secretary of Education to “waive or modify” provisions relating to Title IV of the Higher Education Act, which authorizes student loans.

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How debt relief could win at the Supreme Court

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The government also argues that accepting this standing theory would allow ‘banks [to] sue anyone who causes financial harm to their borrowers.’ “By hindering MOHELA’s contributions to the state, the program risks financial injury to Missouri,” the states’ brief says.

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Private Student Loan Lender Sues to Restart Payments

Confessions of a Community College Dean

SoFi Bank, a private student loan lender, says it has lost $300 to $400 million in total revenues because of the three-year pause on federal student loan payments, and it wants that pause to end. SoFi Bank CEO Anthony Noto has criticized the pause and broad-based debt relief.

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