A look at the HBCU Pre-Law Summit & Law Expo

October 1, 2019

DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Six years ago, attorney Evangeline M. Mitchell founded the National HBCU-Pre-Law Summit & Law Expo. It has become the nation’s largest gathering of HBCU undergraduate students looking to enter the legal profession. This year’s Summit at Georgia State University College of Law provided students with a rare opportunity to hear

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A look at the transition to the digital LSAT

October 1, 2019

FLORIDA  ALLIGATOR — The Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, became fully digital, according to the Law School Admissions Council, or LSAC. Students switched from taking the exam on paper to on a tablet, said Jeff Thomas, the executive director of admissions programs at Kaplan Test Prep, which is a test prep company that provides services

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Digital LSAT includes new features

October 1, 2019

REVEILLE — The Law School Admission Test, better known as the LSAT, made one of its largest changes in history on Sept. 21, shifting from a paper and pencil test to an all-digital, technology-based format. The previous format of the LSAT, had been in place since the early 1990s with few changes and updates to

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U.S. Department of Education official testifies on Public Service Loan Forgiveness rejections

October 1, 2019

MARKETWATCH — The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is meant to wipe away student-loan debt for people who work in public-service jobs including law enforcement, teaching and the military. As of 2018, just 1% of borrowers who applied for the program had been accepted. The low approval rate was because of the program’s complexity — not

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A look at the Public Service Loan Forgiveness appeals process

October 1, 2019

FORBES — Public Service Loan Forgiveness, also known as PSLF, was created to help cash-strapped professionals who want to work for the public good. Unfortunately, this program has turned out to be nothing short of disastrous for those left dealing with red tape and no forgiveness in sight. It’s possible that you have met all the requirements

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Opinion: Reddit is influencing students’ higher education decisions

October 1, 2019

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Reddit is an open community and discussion forum. Users can ask, answer and debate a wide variety of topics through focused communities called subreddits. Posts on Reddit aren’t subjected to algorithms like many social platforms; rather, comments and posts are curated by peer users through the use of up or down

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Study: Connection between student debt and racial wealth gap

October 1, 2019

INSIDE HIGHER ED — The burden of student loans on young black people is a crisis that requires immediate policy action argues the report released from the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University. The report finds that 20 years after entering repayment, the median white student borrower has paid back 94 percent of their student

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Student loan default rate falls again

October 1, 2019

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Data released by the Education Department Wednesday showed that the share of borrowers defaulting on their student loans has declined for the sixth straight year. Of borrowers who entered repayment in 2016, 10.1 percent had defaulted on their loans by 2018 — down from 10.8 percent from the previous year.

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Senate Republicans eye smaller Higher Education Act reauthorization bill

September 23, 2019

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Senate GOP leader, Lamar Alexander, mulls piecemeal update to Higher Education Act tied to HBCU funding, which could include short-term Pell, student data, FAFSA simplification and lifting prison Pell ban. But plan might be tough sell for Democrats.

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New project to develop best practices for communicating the cost of college

September 23, 2019

EDUCATION DIVE — A new project from the Hope Center aims to help colleges better communicate with students about cost while equipping them to be their own advocates.

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