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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Unions, policy groups push for more accountability from colleges and universities, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
When the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers recently launched a campaign to hold the nation’s colleges and universities more accountable for how they treat w […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Some say debt forgiveness would lessen the racial wealth gap; others say it would make it worse, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 days, 2 hours ago
Ashley Harrington is among the many people who see canceling student debt as an issue of racial justice.
For many Black Americans, centuries of discrimination have led to white people having much more wealth than […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Kvaal gets higher education position in Education Department, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 days, 2 hours ago
In nominating James Kvaal to be under secretary of education — the nation’s top official on policies affecting colleges and universities — the Biden administration has selected a longtime education policy e […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden rejects plan for $50,000 in loan forgiveness, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 week ago
Top Senate Democrats and progressive groups continued to press President Biden on Wednesday to use his executive powers to wipe away up to $50,000 from the debts of all student borrowers — after Biden said for […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency settles suit brought by Massachusetts, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 2 weeks ago
The loan servicer tasked with handling a federal loan forgiveness program agreed to review and in some cases pay off the loans of more than 200,000 Massachusetts borrowers to settle a lawsuit brought against it by […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden appointees to Education Department include equity expert, Warren and Sanders aides, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 weeks ago
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a slew of appointments to the Education Department, including well-known higher ed advocates, people who have worked on behalf of student loan borrowers and several […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Cardona confirmation hearing marked by lack of fireworks, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 weeks ago
President Biden’s nominee for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, appears to headed for confirmation by the Senate after a hearing Wednesday free of fireworks, save for whether transgender girls should be c […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Democrats and higher education groups oppose Republican COVID-19 plan, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 weeks, 1 day ago
A top Democrat on education issues said the first proposal put out by some Republicans to find a bipartisan proposal to provide more coronavirus relief would not do enough for higher education.
The comments by […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Advocates hope for better data, requirements on colleges and race, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 3 weeks, 3 days ago
For years, researchers and higher education advocates have been frustrated by the lack of good Education Department data on how students of color and those with lower incomes are being let down by the nation’s h […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Large debate looms over canceling parents' debt for student loans, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 4 weeks ago
Growing up in a small town near Trenton, N.J., Ewan Johnson said there were birthdays when his mother couldn't afford to buy presents for him and his sister, but she did her best by baking cookies. There were […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden's free college plan would increase enrollment at public colleges but hurt privates, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
Wells College sits on a picturesque tree-filled campus on the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, with brick buildings dating back to its founding in 1868, a year when a different president, Andrew Johnson, was […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Education Department staff recommends end to ACICS recognition, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
Just three days into the Biden administration, the Education Department moved Friday to strip the controversial Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools of its powers to accredit colleges and […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden's administration brings hopes going to college will become affordable for youth, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
History will recall President Biden at his inauguration urging unity in a deeply divided nation confronting a raging pandemic, growing inequity, systemic racism and a climate crisis.
But sitting at a kitchen […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden extends break on repaying student loans, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month ago
The Education Department said Wednesday night that at President Joe Biden's request, it is continuing to give student loan borrowers a break from making their monthly payments for another nine months, until […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Biden elevates head of science office to Cabinet level, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
President-elect Joe Biden on Friday nominated Eric Lander to be his science adviser and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy — and also elevated the role of science adviser so that it will have […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Private colleges wonder if they are in Biden relief plan, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
Private colleges and universities are dismayed that President-elect Joe Biden might be leaving most of them out of getting additional help in the coronavirus relief package he will be proposing upon taking office […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Education Department releases billions in aid to colleges, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 1 week ago
The Education Department on Thursday made available the $21.2 billion in help to higher education included in the coronavirus relief legislation Congress and President Trump approved in December, but undocumented […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, The Betsy DeVos legacy: not much in higher education, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What’s perhaps most telling about Betsy DeVos’s contentious tenure as education secretary, before her resignation last week, is the legacy she’ll leave behind for colleges.
There likely won’t be one, in a matter […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, Democratic Senate majority raises hopes for increasing affordability, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Democratic capture of the Senate, after sweeping two runoff elections in Georgia on Tuesday, increases the chances that Congress will take up the incoming Biden administration’s proposals to lower the cost o […]
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Kery Murakami wrote a new post, DeVos resigns as education secretary, citing Trump's role in storming of Capitol, on the site SOE Student Leadership Council 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned Thursday night in the wake of President Trump’s role in encouraging the storming of the Capitol by protesters on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
The d […]
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