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ITT Loan Servicer Agrees to Forgive $330 Million
PEAKS Trust, which owned and managed loans for now-defunct ITT Educational Services, has agreed to forgive $330 million in student...
Academic Minute: Thinking Sociologically
Today on the Academic Minute, Katrina Hoop, associate professor of sociology at St. Joseph’s College, discusses teaching her students to...
Huntington Cancels Mostly White Conference
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens canceled an upcoming virtual conference called "Landscapes of Exploitation in the Atlantic World" following criticism that nearly all speakers were white and that the framing of the conference itself was problematic, conflating exploitation with slavery and colonization.
Academic Minute: Community Responses After Disasters
Today on the Academic Minute, Ricia Anne Chansky, professor of literature at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, explores...
U of Michigan Seeks Court Order to End Strike
After the graduate students' union at the University of Michigan voted on Sunday to continue its strike until Sept. 18...
Leasing Drops Faster Among First-Year Students, Developer Says
One of the country’s largest private student housing companies reported leasing rates falling by about seven percentage points between this...
Report: Wide Racial Disparities in Georgia Scholarships
A new study found racial inequities in what students receive scholarships that cover the most tuition costs for college in...
Student Debt Collector Settles With N.Y. Attorney General
Transworld Systems Inc., the principal debt collector for National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts , agreed to pay $600,000 in penalties...