DeVos abandons plan to award federal student loan servicing to a single company
The Department of Education will still roll out a website through which borrowers can repay their loans, regardless of their provider.
Column: By saddling students with debt, we’re depriving them of self-reliance
The burden of college debt will hang on our current students for years, but depriving them of the sense of pride and dignity they could develop by advancing their own lives could last a lifetime.
When student loan borrowers complain, it’s most often about this company
About 41 million Americans carry more than $1.3 trillion in outstanding student debt. And millions “needlessly fall behind” on this student loan debt,…
Column: What’s making students ‘less resilient’?
The most frequently cited culprits implicated in declining student resilience are "helicopter parenting" and an overly regimented K-12 education system. Yet feedback from parents and students tell a very different story — one in which the economy plays a starring…
A lack of basic financial knowledge and advice is aggravating student debt and defaults. Student financial ambassadors are looking to help.
A Boston startup wants to help you tackle your student loan debt — by having your boss foot part of the bill.
What can be done to effectively aid the two-thirds of graduates who leave school with an average $30,000 in debt?…
You can conquer the student debt beast by saving early and often — if you’re in a position to do so.
The proposed regulations would penalize career training programs that produce graduates without the training needed to find a job with a salary that will allow them to pay off their debt. Schools, for-profit or not, that don't comply would lose…
