by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues
On the afternoon of April 13, 2021, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren held a hearing on the topic of debt cancellation for student loans. “America is facing a student loan time bomb that, when it explodes, could throw millions of families over a financial cliff,”...
by Supporting Education | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In December 2018, Education Corporation of America abruptly closed all of its 70-odd affiliated campuses, leaving almost 20,000 full-time students in the cold. The closure happened immediately after the for-profit program lost its Department of Education...
by Supporting Education | Nov 30, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, is an international award to bring postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford, and it is one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world. Each year, it’s awarded to around 100 students, to cover their...
by Supporting Education | Aug 31, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the beginning of July, Princeton University laid out plans for a revolving return to on-campus classes, focused around keeping the student body small enough to remain safely socially distanced all the way through the 2020-2021 school year. Freshmen and juniors were...
by Supporting Education | Aug 10, 2020 | News, Student Issues
As the COVID-19 crisis gathered momentum in the spring, colleges and universities around the United States moved to remote learning. The measure was absolutely necessary to protect the public, but it left most students disappointed with the quality of the online-only...