Debt To Society
...benefit to white households, but a policy that forgives debt among families making below $50,000 would narrow the racial wealth gap. While students of color borrow more often [...]
Who Got Rich Off The Student Debt Crisis
...at many students dropped out before earning a diploma and were left with debts they couldn’t repay. Brewer had no idea that Career Education’s schools already were [...]
To March For Science, DC And Satellite Marches Across The Nation And The World
...Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation 942. Amelia AM Marchand, MELP (Okanogan, Moses-Columbia, Arrow Lakes, Palus and Chief Joseph Band of Nez Perce), Water Regulatory [...]
Building Power, Student-Style
...tion when department unions put forward proposals to the rest of the campus. University unions are where students coordinate on things that affect all [...]
Vermont Students & Workers Oppose Poverty Wages
...d out.” Skerry said the dean and president cornered her while she was working. “The intention was to bully me and bully others,” identifying her as a “ringleader” [...]
Portland Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win
...ure on the administration to force it to give PSU faculty a fair deal, but one aspect of how the union built up enough pressure to win the new contract has been underreported – the [...]
11 Percent Of Student Borrowers Are In Default
...loan borrower would blame someone else for their problems. And why not? There’s plenty of ire about for-profit colleges defrauding college students, and many are [...]
North Carolina Resistance Grows, Students Launch #DebtFreeUNC Campaign
Students from across the University of North Carolina system have taken to the streets in recent months to demand an education system that they can graduate from without taking [...]
Student Income Loans Transfer Wealth To Investors, Risk To Students
...rtgage securities served as collateral to the mortgage debt. If a homeowner defaults on a mortgage, the bank claims the property in its stead. Student loan debt has [...]
Criminalizing Student Organizing On-Campus
...me a full-fledged organization on our campus—fighting every hurdle on the way, of course. Finally we were told that it was an outside complaint, something we did not know before. It was [...]
For The University, For The Society
...iversity declared: “The Movement is not here to take hostage the protest; it is here to not let the protest go away. We are neither the head, nor the tail – we are the middle of [...]
These For-Profit Schools Are ‘Like A Prison’
...e to advocate effectively, because they didn’t speak English, for instance. School leaders condoned the abuse and in some cases even encouraged it, according to Jandy Rivera and others. [...]
The Only Way To Solve Student Debt Crisis: Strategic Resistance
...businesses, and be confident that their indebtedness will not be recycled to past generations or to the next one. (In 2012, roughly 119,000 social security recipients had part of their [...]
This Is US: Student Debt Devours Young And Old
...ts. It is apparent she had no idea what kind of indenture she’d “agreed to.” This can be said for the majority of student loan borrowers. Financial education [...]
The Student Debt Crisis Is Exploding
...loan debt has grown to overwhelm all other categories of non-housing consumer debt in this nation. Underneath this crisis are rising tuition costs, a predatory student loan [...]