How It Feels When Students Stand Up to the Department of Education and Win
Meaghan Bauer knew something was wrong, so she stood up and fought back. As a result, she’s helping protect thousands of other students’ rights to borrower defense. Meaghan Bauer and Stephen Del Rose, former students ...
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Judge Rules for Project’s Clients; Strikes Down Department of Education Illegal Delay of 2016 Borrower Defense Rule
In another major rebuke to DeVos, the Project wins Bauer v. DeVos case Judge rules that the Department of Education’s delays in implementing 2016 borrower defense rule were illegal and caused serious harm to borrowers ...
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LSC Engages in Legal Outreach to Homeless Veterans at Stand Down 2018
A team of volunteer students and staff from LSC partnered with Veterans Legal Services to provide legal advice to over 120 veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness at Greater Boston Veterans Stand ...
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Comments on Borrower Defense Call Out Betsy DeVos’ Lies
Public comments from leaders across the country cite the Project’s revelation that the proposed borrower defense rule is based on fundamental lies The public comment period for the Department of Education’s proposed new Borrower Defense ...
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LSC Hiring a Veterans Intake & Pro Bono Coordinator (part-time)
The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School (LSC) seeks to hire a part-time Veterans Intake & Pro Bono Coordinator to work in the Veterans Legal Clinic. The Clinic—through which Harvard Law students receive hands-on ...
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Resignation of Seth Frotman Reinforces The Trump Administration’s Failure To Protect Student Borrowers And Taxpayers
Today, Seth Frotman, the student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced his resignation in a letter stating that the bureau has “abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting.” ...
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Estate Planning Project Hiring a Clinical Instructor
The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School has an immediate opening for a Clinical Instructor. The position, which is available either as a full-time position or a part-time position, is within the Estate Planning ...
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Delay. Delay. Delay. The Department of Education Appeals Preliminary Injunction Order and Moves to Stay Litigation Pending Appeal: What it Means and What Happens Next?
On May 25, 2018, a federal court in San Francisco granted former Corinthian borrowers’ motion for a preliminary injunction in Calvillo Manriquez v. DeVos, ordering the Department of Education to stop using its “average rulings rule” immediately, and to stop ...
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Project on Predatory Student Lending Partners with Lawyers’ Committee on Harvard Law Review Blog Post
Project attorneys Toby Merrill, Eileen Connor, and Josh Rovenger, along with Brenda Shum and Genevieve Bonadies of the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, recently published an article on the ...
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Department of Education’s Proposed New Borrower Defense Rule Enables Predatory For-Profit Colleges and Harms Students
Yesterday, the Department of Education proposed a new borrower defense rule that strips away borrower rights, encourages the predatory behaviors of bad actors in higher education, and once again, benefits the for-profit college industry instead ...
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Information About Art Institutes Closures and Bankruptcies
Posted July 4, updated July 13, 2018 The Project on Predatory Student Lending is monitoring Dream Center’s recently-announced closure of 30 of the Art Institutes, Argosy University, and South University campuses that it owns and ...
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LSC releases report on LGBTQ Veterans Issues
In collaboration with community partners OUTVETS, and Veterans Legal Services, LSC’s Veterans Legal Clinic recently released a report on how to fully honor the service of LGBTQ veterans, especially those who received less-than-fully honorable discharges ...
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