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Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Education Department on Tuesday levied a $37.7 million fine against Grand Canyon University after an investigation found it misled more than 7,500 former and current students [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Biden wants to widen paths to student loan forgiveness. But a proposal his administration released Monday will probably reach fewer people than would have been helped [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel More than 830,000 people missed their first student loan payment in three years after one servicer, Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, commonly known as MOHELA, failed to [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Colleges and universities are reporting an increase in people pursuing degrees this semester for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic disrupted higher education. But the number [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Education Department on Tuesday finalized a package of regulations to safeguard vulnerable college students. It will heighten oversight of colleges on the brink of closure and [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Omer Balva, a 22-year-old native of Rockville, Md., was back from his home in Israel. Then, during his U.S. vacation earlier this month, Hamas stormed southern Israel, [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Mary Ansell thought it was strange when she received two student loan payment statements on the same day last month. One statement said Ansell's monthly payment had [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Biden on Wednesday touted progress his administration has made in delivering student loan forgiveness to tens of thousands of borrowers, vowing to forge ahead despite Republican [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Biden said Wednesday his administration has approved $9 billion more in student loan forgiveness as he pledged to continue to look for ways to deliver debt [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Members of Maryland's congressional delegation are asking the Internal Revenue Service to spare families invested in the state's prepaid college savings plan from a hefty tax penalty [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Fort Lewis College President Tom Stritikus knew his students had trouble finding affordable housing in Durango, one of the most expensive cities in the state of Colorado. [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel It's finally here. October marks the resumption of federal student loan payments for tens of millions of people who have benefited from a pandemic-induced pause for more [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel A federal government shutdown will interrupt an array of services, but not the collection of student loans, the Education Department said Friday. 'Congress mandated a return to [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel There is a lot of variation in the financial aid letters colleges use to inform students of the cost of attending and the grants and loans that [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The secretaries of education and agriculture on Monday sent joint letters to the governors of 16 states, urging them to rectify decades of underfunding to historically Black [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Installment plans that let college students spread out tuition payments may also put them at risk of accumulating high fees and debt, according to a new report [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Weeks away from the resumption of federal student loan payments, 4 million people have enrolled in President Biden's new income-driven repayment plan that promises a lower monthly [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel - - - Correction: A previous version of this article said faculty at Wilberforce University passed a vote of no confidence in 2022 of then-President Elfred Anthony [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel If you are among the more than 40 million Americans whose federal student loan payments are coming due this fall, first, take a breath. Second, know that [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Five female professors at Vassar College are suing the elite institution in Upstate New York - one of the country's first colleges to educate women - alleging [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel - - - Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly said a new law directed the state treasurer to set a new earnings rate for Maryland [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Corinne Dorsey WASHINGTON - With a mix of grief, disappointment and anger, student loan borrowers absorbed the impact of Friday's Supreme Court decision striking [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Biden said he would take 'a new path' to provide relief for borrowers after the Supreme Court struck down his student loan forgiveness [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Supreme Court on Friday overturned President Biden's far-reaching plan to forgive student loan debt, a ruling that deals a blow to more than 40 million Americans [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday said President Biden does not have authority for his roughly $400 billion program to forgive student loan [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Weeks after Maryland Treasurer Dereck Davis assumed control of the state's troubled college savings agency, parents are accusing his office of a lack of transparency and urgency [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel After more than three years and eight extensions, the pause on federal student loan payments is coming to an end. A deal to suspend the debt ceiling, [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Senate on Thursday approved a Republican-led resolution to strike down President Biden's plan to forgive more than $400 billion in student loans. The 52-46 vote, arriving [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel As the Supreme Court deliberates the future of President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, the House voted Wednesday to overturn the plan to cancel more than $400 [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel - - - A previous version of this article misstated the last name of a University of Phoenix official. He is John Woods. The article has been [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel After Congress refused to give more money to the federal student aid office last year, higher education experts warned of potential disruption to efforts by the Biden [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Biden will deliver the commencement address for the Class of 2023 at Howard University and the Air Force Academy, the White House announced Saturday. Biden will [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Maryland is closer to overhauling its troubled college savings agency after Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed legislation Monday to transfer control to the state's treasurer. Under the [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The University of Arkansas System board of trustees on Monday narrowly voted against a resolution that would have endorsed a potential affiliation with the University of Phoenix, [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday refused a request by a group of colleges to block a $6 billion settlement that will cancel the student loans [...]

Byline: Niha Masih and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Academic workers at Rutgers University, including faculty and postdoctoral associates, went on strike Monday, with their unions calling it a first in the school's [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Maryland-based 2U, one of the largest providers of online higher education, is suing the Education Department over heightened regulation of its contracts with colleges and universities. The [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The University of Arkansas system is drawing closer to an affiliation deal with the University of Phoenix, a for-profit giant that had been tangled in a legal [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - The Education Department said Tuesday it will launch the redesign of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in December, missing the annual Oct. 1 [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Teaching and research assistants at Temple University have approved a four-year contract following more than a year of negotiations with the administration and a six-week strike. The [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Private lender SoFi is suing to overturn the Biden administration's last extension of the pause on federal student loan payments, arguing the move is unlawful and harms [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar did not mention race in Tuesday's appearance at the Supreme Court, but her impassioned defense of President [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Education Department has begun discharging the student loans of hundreds of thousands of borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges after a federal judge [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Ann E. Marimow WASHINGTON - Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed highly skeptical that President Biden has authority from Congress to provide more [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The nation's highest court is to hear two cases Tuesday challenging the legality of President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, four months after an appellate court halted [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel WASHINGTON - President Biden's far-reaching initiative to forgive student loan debt will be debated this week before a Supreme Court that is skeptical of [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel When C.W. Hamilton took out his first student loan in 1977, the Education Department wasn't even a federal agency. The $5,250 he borrowed to complete an associate's [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel After years of tepid enrollment spurred by the pandemic, colleges and universities in Maryland are trying to stabilize and grow their student populations with varying degrees of [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Temple University has withdrawn tuition assistance for more than a hundred of its graduate students who have been on strike for a week, an unprecedented move in [...]

Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The Education Department may miss the Oct. 1 deadline for launching its redesigned Free Application for Federal Student Aid, raising the ire of advocates who say a [...]