January 13, 2025

Education Department Cancels Debts for Students Who Attended Disgraced CEHE Schools

At the start of President Biden’s last week in office, U.S. Department of Education Miguel Cardona this morning announced a new student debt relief package that includes automatic debt cancellation for 73,600 borrowers who attended any school owned by the Utah-based Center for Excellence in Higher Education between 2006 and the school chain’s collapse in
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December 11, 2024

Owners of Shuttered For-Profit Hussian College Sue ex-CEO, Charging Embezzlement

The owners of shuttered for-profit Hussian College have sued the school’s former president and CEO, Jeremiah Staropoli, seeking $162 million in damages and penalties and claiming that Staropoli and close associates in the company embezzled funds and then conspired to cover up the alleged misdeeds. On September 5, father-and-son Hussian owners David and Joshua Figuli
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December 5, 2024

Idaho High Court Rejects Secret Meetings on U of Phoenix Deal

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The Idaho Supreme Court today ruled, in a 4-1 decision, that a lower court erred when it ratified the University of Idaho’s sneaky concealment of its deal to buy the predatory for-profit University of Phoenix. The ruling is one more indicator that this deal is a mistake, and Idahoans should reject it. Here’s more, from
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December 4, 2024

Trump Wants Musk to Cut Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Start With Taxpayer-Funded Scam Colleges.

I spoke today at a Capitol Hill press event organized by the Debt Collective. Other speakers, who included senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Ashley Pizzuti and Valerie Scott, two of the student borrowers who organized the event, properly focused on the urgency of the Biden administration cancelling
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November 25, 2024

FTC and California AG Have Been Investigating Online College Provider 2U

Struggling online program management operation 2U has this year been under investigation by both the Federal Trade Commission and California’s attorney general, filings in federal bankruptcy court reveal. Maryland-based 2U, which has faced scrutiny and lawsuits over alleged deceptive practices and has struggled with heavy debt, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in federal court in
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November 22, 2024

AG Pick Bondi Dropped Trump University Probe, But Pursued Keiser University

Donald Trump’s second-choice pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, in 2013 received from Trump a $25,000 donation for a political action committee supporting her campaign to be re-elected as Florida’s attorney general — just days after a Bondi spokesperson told the media that her office was reviewing a lawsuit brought by New York’s attorney general
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November 21, 2024

Accreditor ACCSC Again Grants Maximum Renewal To Troubled For-Profit Colleges

College accreditor ACCSC has renewed approval of four for-profit colleges owned by California-based International Education Corp. (IEC), a company that was forced to shut down many of its campuses in the past year after a U.S. Department of Education investigation revealed the schools were rigging student entrance exams and engaging in other fraudulent conduct. By
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November 16, 2024

8 Ideas for Thriving and Winning During Trump 2

If you, like me, consider Donald J. Trump to be one of the most vile people on earth, and you consider his ugly, revenge-fueled MAGA agenda to be a dangerous assault on democracy, justice, human rights, and the American economy, then of course you have been smacked hard in the face. The rapid-fire announcements by
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