Illinois To Sue Predatory Student Debt Settlement Corps
...avings were devastated by the financial crisis, are still struggling to pay off their student loans well into their 50s. For the debt settlement industry, all this means a [...]
A Generation’s Call: Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
...icles in the Crimson and other outlets, and made divestment one of the most prominent issues on campus: the Crimson named divestment one of the top ten issues of 2013. And resistance from [...]
Student Artists, Activists Aim for Fossil-Free Investment At Washington University
...the wherewithal to opt for more sustainable investment alternatives. Students are calling on Chancellor Mark Wrighton to freeze investments in fossil fuel companies. In [...]
Obama Administration Hits Back At Student Debtors Seeking Relief
...out loans later in their work life,” the lawyers added. Murphy took out several loans to send his three children to college, but he lost his job at a manufacturing company in 2002 and [...]
International Actions To Resist Commercialization Of Education
Above photo: Student protest at the University of Warsaw. Photo by Michał Wende. Polish Students are not Alone! The student protests at the [...]
Student Reporters In West Virginia Find Atlantic Coast Pipeline Offers Only Two Dozen Permanent Jobs
...that we might be encouraging students to not build the skills that they might need for our future workforce,” Professor Joshua Hall told SRL. Student [...]
Michigan SU Sent Nine Undercover Cops To Richard Spencer Protest
...ech by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who popularized the term ‘alt-right’, on March 5, 2018 in East Lansing, Michigan. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images MSU has atroubled [...]
Olders Pushed Into Poverty As Feds Garnish Social Security For Student Debt
...undreds of thousands of American seniors living in poverty due to garnished Social Security benefits if this trend continues,” she said, “and we shouldn’t allow that to [...]
For-Profit College Scam These Students Are Still Paying For
...their chances in an increasingly precarious job market. And yes, Social Security can be garnished to pay down student debt. For someone like Stevens, living on that payment, [...]
How The CIA Infiltrated The National Students Association
...udents on campus were returned veterans, so that made it a very unique student population. What was it about this organization that also drew the CIA’s attention? The [...]
The ‘Corinthian 15′ Take A Stand By Calling A Student Loan Strike
...t a group of former students today is taking matters into their own hands. With the help of Rolling Jubilee, a campaign that purchases student loan debt and [...]
Student Threatened Over ‘Blood Bucket’ Video
...campus. So it took about a day for anything significant to happen. But quickly, the Zionist presence on campus began writing emails to the student senate, expressing distaste, [...]
Band-aids On The Gaping Wound Of Student Debt
...helped kill free higher education in the United States. Today, in the face of the student debt crisis, the best fight the Democrats are mustering is to try and lessen the pain [...]
Pack The Court For Two Suspended CUNY Student Leaders
...tion severely restricting free speech on campus. The deployment of massive numbers of cops and barricades against demonstrations. Now, the CUNY administration is overtly collaborating with the [...]
The Emergent Academic Proletariat And Shortchanged Students
...oards of trustees are largely comprised of representatives of the banking and financial industries. In the United States, student debt now totals over one billion dollars, [...]