Tag: student loans

The U.S. Supreme Court will determine the outcome of President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for millions of...

Debt is prevalent among the higher education workforce, according to a new report by the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) Institute. The...

A lawyer working for a libertarian legal group has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over President Biden’s policies to...

With the recent announcement by the Biden administration that federal student loan borrowers will see a cancellation of $10,000 of student debt for low-...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced a series of proposed changes that would make student debt relief more attainable for public service...

Dartmouth College will eliminate student loans from undergraduate financial aid packages and replace them with extended scholarship awards and grants to help students from...

A recent report on equity trends in higher education has found that student debt is growing at a higher rate for low-income and underrepresented...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday that it will extend the student loan payment moratorium through August 31. The payment pause has, to this...

The U.S. Department of Education introduced an overhaul Wednesday to the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program in an effort to grant debt...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is actively stalling the confirmation of James Kvaal, President Joe Biden's nominee to oversee higher-education policy, in an effort to...

Personal finance company NerdWallet recently released an analysis showing that students currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree could graduate with approximately $37,200 in debt. An...

The U.S. Department of Education announced during a Thursday press call that it is undoing a Trump-era formula that limited loan forgiveness for students...

Washington, D.C. has the highest balance of student loan debt in the country, according to a Tuesday report from business insurance research company, AdvisorSmith. The...

President-elect Joe Biden is planning to provide student loan relief by asking Congress to forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower. Biden will also...

In fall 2021, junior and senior STEM college majors at select historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) will be eligible for a new student...

The 2019 graduating class of Morehouse College reacted with joy and tears of gratitude last week when commencement speaker Robert Smith announced he would...

Veterinary medicine scholars are uniquely affected by the student debt crisis, largely due to a higher debt-to-income ratio for veterinarians compared with that of...

African American college graduates are significantly more likely than their white and Hispanic peers to default on their student loans, according to a report...

A federal student loan program used by many low-income African American families to finance their children’s postsecondary education is exacerbating wealth inequality in the...

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed a $3.1 trillion federal spending bill that covers the remaining 2018 fiscal year. It includes several provisions that...

The new GOP tax plan proposes several cuts to higher education that amount to approximately $65 billion worth of tax benefits for individuals and...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released a report earlier this month showing that African Americans and students from low-income families struggle the...

The words “elimination” and “reduction” dominate President Donald Trump’s proposal for the U.S. Department of Education’s budget in fiscal year 2018. These cuts are...

Women made up 56 percent of higher education enrollment in the United States in fall 2016 but hold nearly two-thirds of the country’s $1.3...

Many of the nation’s wealthiest private colleges and universities leave their poorest students with heavy debt loads, a ProPublica analysis of new data from...

The U.S. Department of Education announced on Wednesday that the official three-year federal student loan cohort default rate has declined to 11.8 percent for...

In its second annual survey of college graduates, the Gallup-Purdue Index finds that only half of respondents “strongly agree” that their college education was...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a $350 billion plan on Monday to make college more affordable in order to ease the financial burden...