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What PPSL Fought For in 2025 – And What Comes Next
As 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on a year of fierce advocacy, strategic litigation, and commitment to student borrowers. In a rapidly shifting federal policy landscape, PPSL has stood with borrowers to defend their rights and call for accountability from servicers, private lenders, and the federal government.
Student Borrower Town Hall: Navigating Relief, Repayment, & Your Rights
The 2025 Community Action Council hosted a Student Borrower Town Hall alongside PPSL and hundreds of borrowers from across the country to surface the real challenges facing student borrowers—covering repayment, relief, and financial impact.
CAC in Action: Standing Up for Higher Ed Reform at the Department of Education Hearing
Members of PPSL’s Community Action Council, which launched earlier this spring, are already stepping into action—and up to the microphone.
Campus Files Podcast Spotlights For-Profit Colleges and Borrower Stories
This spring, the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) joined forces with Audacy Podcasts to spotlight the real stories behind for-profit colleges on the hit show Campus Files.
Celebrating Giving Tuesday: "I am more free today because of your work"
At PPSL, nothing inspires us more than hearing from people whose fraudulent student loans have been cancelled because of our litigation. Our team is incredibly moved when people reach out to share the impact in their own words – and this Giving Tuesday, we wanted to share a few stories that remind us why we do this work.
Fighting for Borrowers: A Post-Election Update from PPSL
PPSL’s President and Executive Director, Eileen Connor shares words of encouragement and resolve in this video, addressing a critical moment for borrowers.
Calling for For-Profit College Accountability at NJ Senate Higher Education Hearing
At a New Jersey Senate Higher Education Committee hearing recently, student loan borrowers testified alongside the Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL), calling for stronger oversight and transparency around proprietary institutions of higher education.
The Latest From PPSL: New cases, holding servicers accountable, and protecting borrower defense
Summer has been a busy season for us at PPSL, and as we dive into fall, there’s a lot to share. From filing new cases to increased advocacy efforts, we’re mobilizing borrowers and working together to hold the student loan system accountable to borrowers and the law.
Advocating for Proper Accreditor Oversight in Higher Education
Recently, the PPSL team and our clients had an opportunity to highlight the importance of this issue at the Department of Education’s NACIQI Summer 2024 meeting, and to call for more stringent oversight of a particular accreditor, ACCET.
The latest news from the Project on Predatory Student Lending
There hasn't been a dull moment yet in 2024. Read more on what we have been up to below.