by Supporting Education | Jun 5, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent tens of thousands of students home from universities around the country, with classes either preemptively ended or changed to an online format. For many students, this will damage the quality of the education they’re receiving, education...
by Supporting Education | Apr 6, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Student loan debt has been a constant battlefield for the U.S. Department of Education under current Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. U.S. courts have had to sue her personally over contradicting their orders about pursuing debt from those defrauded by for-profit...
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...
