Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Community Colleges are an Essential Piece of "Building Back Better"

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Fifty years of growing inequality, "savage inequalities" in the K-12 pipeline, college enrollment down for a decade, millions of...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Navient and the Zombie SLABS Meltdown (Bill Harrington*)

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I look forward to reviewing the quarterly and annual Student Loan Portfolio reports, courtesy of Dahn Shaulis and the College Meltdown . Th...
Friday, November 6, 2020

A Letter to the US Department of Education and Student Loan Servicers on Behalf of Student X (Heidi Weber)

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[Editors Note: Whistleblowers like this author, Heidi Weber, are an essential part of a democracy, shedding light when there is little t...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

The College Dream is Over (Gary Roth*)

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For the last decade already, access to a college education has been shrinking. This is unprecedented for the United States, in which expandi...
Friday, October 9, 2020

"Edugrift": Observations of a Subprime College Lead Generator (by J.D. Suenram*)

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First a little about my background. I came to work at a company called Edsoup in 2010. I worked there for four years. Previously I worked f...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Student Loan Volumes Show College Meltdown Has Accelerated

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US Student loan volumes decreased dramatically in the third quarter (March 31-June 30) of 2020.   According to Ken Miller at The Century Fou...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point Empire Takes Advantage of Failing Federal Agencies As Right-Wing Assault on Division I College Campuses Continues

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As CEO of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) , Turning Point Endowment, Turning Point Action (TPA), and Students for Trump (SFT) , 26-year old Charli...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The US Working-Class Depression: "Let's all pretend we couldn't see it coming."

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How is the working-class Depression of 2020 similar to the other 47 financial downturns in US history?  Downturns are frequently precipi...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

Revising Indicators of the College Meltdown during the Panic of 2020

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Insiders in higher education and at bond rating agencies know how bad the College Meltdown has become. They have been tracking it for ye...