A look at student loan forgiveness through one borrower’s story
NPR — Kurt Panton’s laugh, surprising and unguarded, erupts when you expect it — after his baby daughter, Pauline, babbles adorably. But also when you don’t — after he confesses frustration with the federal student loan system.
Read More about A look at student loan forgiveness through one borrower’s storyStanford Law to implement new income-based student loan alternative
REUTERS — Stanford Law School said this week that it will fund a student loan alternative that sets repayment at 10% of graduates’ income, whether they work in private practice, public interest or elsewhere.
Read More about Stanford Law to implement new income-based student loan alternativeWhite House provides $5 billion in student loan forgiveness
USA TODAY — The Education Department has forgiven another $4.8 billion in student loans for roughly 80,000 borrowers.
Read More about White House provides $5 billion in student loan forgivenessA look at the process for discharging student loans via bankruptcy
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Biden administration’s effort to make it easier to discharge federal student loans in bankruptcy hasn’t made the process as accessible as some borrower advocates and attorneys had hoped.
Read More about A look at the process for discharging student loans via bankruptcyUS Department of Education proposes new plan for student debt forgiveness
NBC NEWS — The Biden administration is proposing a new plan to forgive student debt, months after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s sweeping pandemic-era debt relief plan in June.
Read More about US Department of Education proposes new plan for student debt forgivenessUS Department of Education works to negotiate new federal student loan cancellation options
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The first meeting of the Education Department’s student debt relief negotiating committee offered glimpses at what kind of loan forgiveness the Biden administration might propose.
Read More about US Department of Education works to negotiate new federal student loan cancellation optionsUS Department of Education proposes new transparency rules for graduate schools
INSIDE HIGHER ED — As graduate students make up an increasingly larger share of the federal student loan portfolio, the U.S. Education Department is looking to gather more information about the programs receiving federal dollars and how students fare in them—a step that could lead to greater federal and public scrutiny of graduate education.
Read More about US Department of Education proposes new transparency rules for graduate schoolsSome borrowers receive new round of student loan forgiveness from federal government
USA TODAY — Another 125,000 student loan borrowers will have $9 billion in student loan debt erased, the Biden administration said Wednesday.
Read More about Some borrowers receive new round of student loan forgiveness from federal governmentBiden-Harris Administration approves loan relief for some former University of Phoenix students
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION — The Biden-Harris Administration today announced the approval of nearly $37 million in borrower defense to repayment discharges for more than 1,200 students who enrolled at the University of Phoenix (Phoenix) between Sept. 21, 2012, and Dec. 31, 2014, and applied for relief.
Read More about Biden-Harris Administration approves loan relief for some former University of Phoenix studentsA profile on Campbell Law student Sofia Baneth
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — Campbell Law School’s Sofia Baneth ’23 has chosen to begin her practice as an Honors Attorney with the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C.
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