Campus Equity Week…#CEW2015 according to @GoogleNews
…as the week opens, what’s the word from the news media ~ not press releases, blog posts, union or organization member notices or PR materials. Google News’ algorithm ranks large market regional press read by the non-academic public over higher ed media. We’ll come back at the end of the week and see how the media line-up compares to Day 1.
Inequality for All in America's Higher Education System
San Diego Free Press - October 26, 2015. Coincidentally, October 26th through the 29th happens to be Campus Equity Week, a twice-a-year [sic] action designed to bring attention to this very problem
Isn't It Time for Campus EQUALITY Week?
CounterPunch - Oct 23, 2015. Campus Equity Week (CEW) will be held across the U.S. October 26-30. CEW started as a grass roots movement in 2001 and has been held every other year, alternating with meetings held by the Coalition on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL).
Equity Week promotes truth about adjuncts
Mesa Press - Oct 22, 2015. Campus Equity Week (CEW), will be discussing the adjunctification of campuses nationwide, focusing on how “Faculty Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions.
SUNY Oneonta adjuncts: We need a raise
The Daily Star - Oct 18, 2015. In conjunction with nationwide Campus Equity Week, the union will meet at the State University College at Oneonta on Wednesday to distribute the petition, discuss adjunct concerns with state UUP officials and raise awareness of issues.
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#studentloandebt: @Campus EquityWk issues in the news #CEW2015‥Got topic suggestions?
…October 26-30. Event and action notices and links are appearing more frequently on social media. “In the News” editions have been the province of our Precarious Faculty Network sister site, Precarity Dispatches. For editorial and technical reasons, we haven’t been featuring “in the news” editions for a while. Until the end of the month they will appear here.
Topics in this special CEW 2015 series could include organizing, academic labor, workplace, fair pay, governance/academic freedom, job security, benefits, poverty, precarity, working conditions, the future of higher education, CEW history and more. Consider the series a Campus Equity Week action: we’ll even submit it to NFM’s CEW 2015 Events page if we can figure out how to log in. Have you submitted yours?
The problem isn't student loans - it's the entire higher education system
Business Insider - Oct 19, 2015 Everyone understands soaring student debt is a problem: burdened with $1.3 trillion in student loans, young people are unable to start businesses, buy homes and start families. The high cost of housing and meeting regulations to launch businesses add ...
Why student loan borrowers should pay attention to these two court cases
MarketWatch- Oct 21, 2015. One of the things that sets student loan debt apart from all other types of debt is that it’s almost impossible to get rid of it. Even those borrowers who end up in such dire financial straits that they file for bankruptcy struggle to get fresh start free of their student loans.
Student debt must be of chief concern for higher education
UConn Daily Campus - Oct 19, 2015. The U.S. Department of Education calculated a 7.7 percent increase in public, 4-year college tuition over the 2011-12 to 2013-14 terms. For private, 4-year institutions, that rate was slightly higher at 7.9 percent. At the same time, schools such as
Building a Better System for Student Loan Debt
The National Interest Online - Oct 19, 2015. The ETC and d401(k) would promote STEM. Also, the plan could lead to more debt outstanding as previously disadvantaged students feel more comfortable and pursue higher education . More debt would show up in the Federal Reserve's report, but for the ...
Hedge Funds Smell Blood in the Student Debt Market
Institutional Investor - Oct 19, 2015. As of 2012, U.S. Department of Education data show that 48 percent of students were taking out loans for their education, up from 33 percent in 2002; more and more members of that group are going into default. Students who are behind on or have
Governing Through Student Loan Debt
Huffington Post - Oct 20, 2015. It's common knowledge that student loan debt is treated differently than other forms of debt. Unlike most forms of consumer debt, student loan debt isn't subject to normal bankruptcy proceedings, meaning that it's virtually impossible to get it discharged.
Students unlikely to get exemption from loan payment
Ball State Daily - Oct 20, 2015 . Instead, their intent was that a student would be able to receive assistance from the state, which would provide debt relief to the student if appropriate. In the event of a loan discharge, the student . could potentially demand the school recompense the ...
The Student Loans Secret Weapon You Didn't Know You Had
Huffington Post - Oct 20, 2015. Many students aren't aware of the federal government's many repayment options, so they stick with the standard repayment plan. The standard plan breaks up your total balance into 120 fixed payments over 10 years, and if you have a lot of debt it can
Supreme Court May Hear Student Loan Debt Case
ACA International - Oct 20, 2015. John K. Delaney (D-Md.) filed legislation to help address Americans struggling with student loan debt. The Discharge Student Loans in Bankruptcy Act (H.R. 449) would make student loans dischargeable under bankruptcy, ACA International reported.
Building a Better System for Student Loan Debt
The National Interest Online - Oct 19, 2015/ Student debt is pervasive. The balance in the U.S. is well over $1 trillion. And everyone seems to have it: in 2014, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that 18 percent of households led by someone aged 45–54 years still had student loan debt.
Obama administration urges no bankruptcy relief for student debt
UPI.com - Oct 21, 2015, BOSTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The Obama administration moved to block a bankruptcy court from erasing federal student loan debt, saying such an allowance would jeopardize the fiscal stability of the loan program. U.S. Department of Education attorneys, ...
Unemployed 65-Year-Old Fighting Government For Debt Relief On College Loans...
Financial Advisor Magazine - Oct 19, 2015. No student debtor should get a break on student loans unless they can show a “certainty of hopelessness,” said the government's lawyers. “[A] debtor must specifically prove a total incapacity in the future to repay the debt for reasons not within his control
Student Debt: Obama Administration Tries To Block Bankruptcy Courts
International Business Times - Oct 19, 2015. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks at the American Job Creation and Infrastructure Forum in Washington Oct. 8, 2015. When he was a senator, Biden backed legislation that made it harder for students to discharge private education student loan debt
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