by Supporting Education | Mar 6, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The University of Southern California (USC), located to the southwest of downtown Los Angeles, is one of the oldest private universities in California. It’s nearly 140 years old. As of the 2018-19 school year, it had just shy of 50,000 students, about 20,000 of those...
by Supporting Education | Feb 28, 2020 | News, Student Issues
One of the differences between high school and college that takes some getting used to is that in college, you have real standing to talk your teachers into giving you a better grade. In fact, according to a survey by two professors of economics, Cher Li and Basit...
by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2019 | News, Student Issues
At the center of the scandals involving for-profit colleges has been dishonesty about the value of their education. The schools under the Corinthian Colleges umbrella, which were all closed abruptly in 2015, lost their accreditation over their written promises that...
by Supporting Education | Nov 29, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Most universities require their students to carry some kind of health coverage, meeting whatever standard the university requires. They’re allowed to set adequate (which they’re allowed to define) coverage as a condition of enrollment, and they are allowed to sell...
by Supporting Education | Oct 11, 2019 | News
In 1995, the Department of Education started the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. It was built to allow students deceived by dishonest academic institutions to be forgiven their student loans. In 2016, the Obama administration finalized rules for the program,...
