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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Photo Credit: Macaulay Honors College Finding a lack of diversity Access to higher education has been an important theme in Byrne’s life in academia. Students meet with Macaulay Honors College Dean Dara N.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

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By Michael Shattock Editor’s note: Michael Shattock is the guru of governance studies in HE; SRHE Blog is delighted to bring you his invitation to researchers in HE to expand their work in governance – a definitive statement about the many contributions that governance research can make to our understanding of higher education.

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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

Dear Secretary Cardona, Department of Education Staff, and Regulating officials, My name is Michael DiGiacomo. I have been fighting this industry since 2003-2006, when I realized I had been played badly by these deceptive debt factories. And why does the class not cover federal loans held by Salliemae or other pre-Obamacare lenders?

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Fight Over Student Debt Cancellation Hits Supreme Court

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The state of Missouri argued that it would be damaged by the debt forgiveness through loss of revenue to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a quasi-state loan servicer. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson expressed doubt that that would ever happen, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the position “so totally illogical.”

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How debt relief could win at the Supreme Court

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The States Much of the states’ standing argument focused on how Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA), a state-created entity and federal loan servicer, would be affected by the debt-relief program.

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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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