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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Nomination seen as pushing Supreme Court to the right, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 days, 14 hours ago
Before her nomination to the Supreme Court Saturday by President Donald Trump, and her time as a federal appeals court judge, Amy Coney Barrett was a popular law professor for 15 years at the University of Notre […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, On the campaign trail, key Democratic Senate candidates shy away from debt cancellation and free college, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week, 1 day ago
When they proposed last week that the next president knock $50,000 off all student loan borrowers’ debts, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Elizabeth Warren pitched the idea as a political w […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, As Alexander prepares to leave, a final push to simplify FAFSA, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week, 5 days ago
As he nears retirement, Senator Lamar Alexander, the chair of the Senate education committee, is making a final push to bring about what he’s been trying to do for at least seven years — simplifying the form s […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Free college idea divides Trump and Biden, but poll finds Republican support, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks ago
Campaigning at Florida Memorial University last week, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris emphasized the importance of going to college, including historically Black colleges and universities like […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Free college idea divides Trump and Biden, but poll finds Republican support, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks ago
Campaigning at Florida Memorial University last week, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris emphasized the importance of going to college, including historically Black colleges and universities like […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Higher education workers gave five times as much to Biden as to Trump, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Though the nation finds itself deeply divided, it’s clear whom employees at the nation’s higher education institutions are supporting financially in the presidential race.
According to federal elections rec […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Experts warn against closing residence halls, but some say it's not that simple, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks, 6 days ago
In interviews and in a call with several governors last week, three of the nation’s top medical leaders dealing with the coronavirus outbreak urged colleges not to close residence halls and send potentially i […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, For-profits see a lot riding on the elections, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 weeks, 1 day ago
If Scott Gunderson didn’t know what awaits for-profit colleges should Democrats capture the White House, he thought it became clear when he heard vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris at the Democratic N […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Some HBCUs bristle at being held up as sign of Trump's concern for race, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
During a Republican National Convention that seemed in part intended to try to convince voters that President Trump is not a racist, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said that impression “could […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Why was DeVos left out of speaking at Republican convention?, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
As speakers appear at the virtual Republican National Convention over four nights this week, one prominent but polarizing face will apparently be missing — that of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
DeVos wasn’t i […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, HBCUs hail Harris as 'one of our own.', on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
When Kamala Harris stood before Howard University's graduating class last year to give the commencement address, she told the students she'd been where they sat when she graduated from the university three […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Trump's executive orders could dim prospects of more federal aid for colleges, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Executive orders President Donald Trump signed this weekend may bring a little help to Americans, including continuing to excuse many student loan borrowers from making payments through the rest of the year.
But […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Trump may use executive powers to help student loan borrowers, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
President Trump said in a tweet Thursday that he is looking into using his executive powers to continue providing help for those with student loans during the pandemic. It’s unclear if he has the authority or if i […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, House Republican lawmakers examining foreign gifts to Harvard, Yale and others, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 3 weeks ago
The top Republicans on three House committees, including one that has been investigating foreign influence on U.S. higher education, asked Harvard and Yale Universities and four other institutions that have […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Congress aid discriminates against colleges serving minorities, groups warn, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 4 weeks ago
It’s a wonky difference. But colleges that disproportionately educate students of color could be shortchanged billions of dollars if Congress divvies up money between institutions in the next coronavirus relief p […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, As college professors worry about campus reopenings, Congress debates need for workplace protections, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months ago
With hundreds of thousands of students returning in a couple of weeks to campuses in the University of North Carolina system, amid record high coronavirus hospitalizations, about 150 North Carolina State […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Aid for DACA students becomes a sticking point in relief package debate, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months ago
The proposal for the next coronavirus relief package unveiled by Senate Republicans Monday would continue to exclude college students who are undocumented immigrants from receiving emergency aid during the […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Student loan repayments emerging as division in coronavirus package debate, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 1 week ago
A key sticking point emerged between key Democrats and Republicans Thursday over what to do about 43 million Americans who have been excused from making student loan payments during the pandemic, even as […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Alexander proposes student loan relief and FAFSA simplification, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 1 week ago
Nearing the end of his tenure in Congress, Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee, proposed excusing those with no income from making student loan payments, as well as enacting one […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Amid concerns about college affordability, a call to increase Pell, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 months, 1 week ago
When researchers at the National College Attainment Network this month looked at data showing how many people with student loans were reapplying to get money to return for another year of college, they were […]
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