Nearly half of law school students enroll with undergraduate debt
THE NATIONAL JURIST — The average debt among law students enrolled in 2019-20 averaged $27,000, according to AccessLex Institute’s newest update to the Legal Education Data Deck.
Read More about Nearly half of law school students enroll with undergraduate debtAccessLex report: Law students report anxiety over career outcomes, loans, and debt
ABA JOURNAL — Almost half of all law school students have debt from their undergraduate education, more fund their legal education with loans and less than half say it was worth it, according to the AccessLex Institute’s Legal Education Data Deck.
Read More about AccessLex report: Law students report anxiety over career outcomes, loans, and debtUC Irvine Law professor Dalié Jiménez receives funding to study student loan interventions and debt collection
UCI LAW — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) is pleased to announce that Professor Dalié Jiménez is the lead principal investigator on a project that was awarded $200,000 by the California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research (CPR3) to study the effects of pandemic-related interventions on California student loan borrowers.
Read More about UC Irvine Law professor Dalié Jiménez receives funding to study student loan interventions and debt collectionConsumer Financial Protection Bureau Report details student loan servicing errors
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Student loan borrowers have experienced billing errors and long waits to get hold of the companies managing their loans since payments restarted in October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said in a new report released Friday.
Read More about Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Report details student loan servicing errorsA look at student loan forgiveness through one borrower’s story
NPR — Kurt Panton’s laugh, surprising and unguarded, erupts when you expect it — after his baby daughter, Pauline, babbles adorably. But also when you don’t — after he confesses frustration with the federal student loan system.
Read More about A look at student loan forgiveness through one borrower’s storyStanford Law to implement new income-based student loan alternative
REUTERS — Stanford Law School said this week that it will fund a student loan alternative that sets repayment at 10% of graduates’ income, whether they work in private practice, public interest or elsewhere.
Read More about Stanford Law to implement new income-based student loan alternativeWhite House provides $5 billion in student loan forgiveness
USA TODAY — The Education Department has forgiven another $4.8 billion in student loans for roughly 80,000 borrowers.
Read More about White House provides $5 billion in student loan forgivenessA look at the process for discharging student loans via bankruptcy
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Biden administration’s effort to make it easier to discharge federal student loans in bankruptcy hasn’t made the process as accessible as some borrower advocates and attorneys had hoped.
Read More about A look at the process for discharging student loans via bankruptcyUS Department of Education proposes new plan for student debt forgiveness
NBC NEWS — The Biden administration is proposing a new plan to forgive student debt, months after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s sweeping pandemic-era debt relief plan in June.
Read More about US Department of Education proposes new plan for student debt forgivenessUS Department of Education works to negotiate new federal student loan cancellation options
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The first meeting of the Education Department’s student debt relief negotiating committee offered glimpses at what kind of loan forgiveness the Biden administration might propose.
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