Loans ‘Designed to Fail’: States Say Navient Preyed on Students

by | Apr 9, 2017 | Arbitration, Conciliation and Mediation, Attorneys General, Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Banking and Financial Institutions, Business Lending, Business Loans, California Culinary Academy Incorporated, Capital, Career Education Corporation, Colleges and Universities, Economics, Education Department (US), Finance, Le Cordon Bleu, Navient Corporation, Non-Bank Loans, SLM Corporation, Student Loans, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Working Capital

By STACY COWLEY and JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG April 9, 2017 Ashley Hardin dreamed of being a professional photographer — glamorous shoots, perhaps some exotic travel. So in 2006, she enrolled in the Brooks Institute of Photography and borrowed...

Higher Education: A Fumble on a Key Fafsa Tool, and a Failure to Communicate

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Higher Education By SUSAN DYNARSKI March 13, 2017 Applying for financial aid for college got a lot harder this month, in the thick of application season, but it took federal agencies nearly a week to explain what was happening. To get aid for college from...