On June 30, 2017, NCLC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking communications from senior department employees concerning potential or current litigation over
the Borrower Defense Regulations, including communications with representatives of CAPPS and Career Education Colleges and Universities, both of which represent the for - profit college sector.
Coalition letter to Dept. of Education re: proposed student loan
borrower defense regulations, March 11, 2016
In accordance with his fellow state Senator, Jack Reed, Whitehouse supports student
borrower defense regulations and transparent student lending practices.
This scenario just happened at USDE in the student loan arena on
borrower defense regulations in the wake of the for - profit Corinthian Colleges» collapse.
On May 11, 2017, we succeeded in discouraging any attempt to repeal
the borrower defense regulation using the Congressional Review Act in part due to opposition letters from 20 state attorneys general, 16 veterans» organizations, and more than 50 organizations representing students, consumers, veterans, servicemembers, faculty, and staff, civil rights, and college access.
Not exact matches
The execution of the
regulation will be brought about by an expansion of the department's «
Borrower Defense to Repayment» program.
Also this week, the Department of Education (ED) started the process of renegotiating the
borrower defense to repayment (DTR)
regulations it
Also this week, the Department of Education (ED) started the process of renegotiating the
borrower defense to repayment (DTR)
regulations it delayed earlier this year.
Repeal any
regulations on
borrower defense to repayment that were implemented during the Obama Administration.
Late last week, we learned that no applications for loan forgiveness have been processed under
borrower defense to repayment
regulations since the new administration took over in late January.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced steps to change two important higher education
regulations — a delay of
borrower defense and a renegotiation of the gainful employment rule — and to conduct a new regulatory process to rewrite these rules.
«If the Administration were serious about helping harmed students and protecting students from predatory practices, it would be implementing the
borrower defense and gainful employment
regulations without delay and acting on the tens of thousands of pending loan discharge applications, not dismantling current protections and committing to follow through only on the 16,000 applications approved by the Obama Administration.
Joint comments submitted by more than 50 organizations in response to the Department of Education's plan to conduct negotiated rulemaking on the gainful employment
regulations finalized in October 2014 and the
borrower defense to repayment and college accountability
regulations finalized in November 2016.
The Administration released final
borrower defense and college accountability
regulations on October 28, 2016.