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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963). While this public-mindedness feels inevitable in the spirit of post-war optimism, at the time it was not uncontested.

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Here are 2 strategies for successful pushback against policy changes

University Business

Focus on fighting local Campus leaders must tell their local representatives how the Trump administration’s policy overhauls are impacting higher education, Fansmith said. The administration has been relatively clever so far trying to hide cuts that go to individual benefits, but it’s beginning to resonate.