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Student loan debt may be tougher to pay off after passage of Trump’s big bill | The Boston Globe
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Student loan debt may be tougher to pay off after passage of Trump’s big bill | The Boston Globe

The Trump administration’s stricter lending limits mean ”fewer people who are not already rich will be able to go to college, and the people who still need to get education and training that are not already rich are going to be targeted for predatory private loan projects,” said Eileen Connor, executive director of the Project on Predatory Student Lending.

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CFPB Pullback Shrinks Bankrupt Student Loan Borrowers’ Options | Bloomberg Law
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CFPB Pullback Shrinks Bankrupt Student Loan Borrowers’ Options | Bloomberg Law

The CFPB played a key role in forcing student loan servicer Navient Corp. to change how it handled certain private loan discharges, according to Eileen Connor, president of the Project on Predatory Student Lending. Lenders such as Navient often include arbitration clauses in their contracts, making it harder for borrowers to seek legal help, she said.

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‘This isn’t a real school’: Online university UMass Global could be a financial liability for the state | The Boston Globe
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‘This isn’t a real school’: Online university UMass Global could be a financial liability for the state | The Boston Globe

“I think that there is something that doesn’t feel right about labeling something ‘UMass’ that is not, as far as I can tell, accountable in any way to the people of Massachusetts,” says Eileen Connor, president and executive director of the Boston-based Project on Predatory Student Lending.

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Cyber School by College Uncovered | GBH News & The Hechinger Report
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Cyber School by College Uncovered | GBH News & The Hechinger Report

Online higher education has come a long way since its predecessor, the correspondence school. The universal shift to remote learning during the pandemic only accelerated that momentum. It has also allowed more comprehensive research into whether online teaching works as well as the in-person kind.

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