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  • 2 million student borrowers could see wages garnished to pay back loans starting in July

    06/25/2025 11:00:53 AM PDT · by Twotone · 37 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | June 24, 2025 | Thomas Stevenson
    Around 6 million student borrowers are 90 days or more past due on their student loan payments, and around a third of them, or 2 million, could start having a portion of their wages garnished by the federal government starting in July to pay back their loans. According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of borrowers at risk of wage garnishments is higher than the 1.2 million that was estimated by TransUnion. Wage garnishments—a legal procedure allowing a portion of wages to be withheld by the government to pay down a debt—could spell lower pay for the student borrowers...
  • American Students Are Dumber Than Ever, Thanks To ‘Equity’

    06/21/2025 7:32:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 86 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | Jun 21, 2025 | Sarah Parshall Perry
    200 California bar exam takers have had their failing scores adjusted to “pass.” ... In 2025, American students from kindergarten through law school are dumber than they’ve ever been, and we needn’t look beyond the nation’s abysmal math and English literacy NAEP scores to prove it. In 2025, American students from kindergarten through law school are dumber than they’ve ever been, and we needn’t look beyond the nation’s abysmal math and English literacy NAEP scores to prove it. Now, more than 200 California bar exam takers have had their failing scores adjusted to “pass,” indicating that the newest crop of...
  • Trump effort to keep Harvard from hosting foreign students blocked by federal judge

    06/20/2025 10:11:13 PM PDT · by Libloather · 42 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/20/25 | Victor Nava
    A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to stop Harvard University from hosting foreign nationals on student visas. US District Judge Allison Burroughs’s preliminary injunction extends a temporary block she issued last month, which prevented the Trump administration from revoking the Ivy League school’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. The certification allows Harvard to host roughly 7,000 international students – about 27% of the school’s total enrollment. The injunction will remain in effect until the underlying case is decided, the Obama-appointed judge ruled. The ruling marks another legal victory for the Cambridge, Massachusetts school as...
  • US says foreign students seeking visas must unlock social media accounts

    06/19/2025 8:05:16 AM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 14 replies
    AP ^ | 06/19/2025 | Associated Press
    The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials. Consular officers will be looking for activity, posts and messages showing “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States,” the department said. The announcement is the latest step in the Trump administration’s crackdown on international students, and the U.S. said applicants who refuse may have their applications rejected.
  • Oregon middle school hosts 'Drag Day' encouraging students to cross-dress during Pride Week

    06/06/2025 8:37:43 AM PDT · by Libloather · 81 replies
    Fox News ^ | 6/06/25 | Kristine Parks
    An Oregon middle school encouraged students to dress up as "drag queens" and their favorite "queer hero" this week in celebration of Pride Month, but one parent said families weren't notified ahead of time. At the Arts & Technology Academy in the Eugene School District 4J, students celebrated "Pride Spirit Week" with a different theme each day intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, according to a memo obtained by Fox News Digital. On Monday, students were encouraged to "wear as many colors as they could" for "Rainbow-Out" day. On Tuesday, they were told to wear all black "in remembrance of...
  • Trump ban on entry of international Harvard students blocked by US judge

    06/06/2025 4:14:34 AM PDT · by Libloather · 92 replies
    BOSTON – A federal judge in Boston on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump from barring US entry of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programs at Harvard University. Under a two-page temporary restraining order granted to Harvard, US District Judge Allison Burroughs enjoined Trump’s proclamation from taking effect pending further litigation of the matter amid an escalating dispute between the Ivy League school and Republican president. The judge ruled that Trump’s directive prohibiting foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard for the next six months would cause “immediate and irreparable injury”...
  • State Department now probing all visa holders at Harvard — not just foreign students

    05/29/2025 7:21:04 AM PDT · by Libloather · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/29/25 | Josh Christenson
    WASHINGTON — The State Department is broadening its review of visa holders at Harvard University beyond the foreign student population, a senior official told The Post on Thursday. The comprehensive investigation will consider F-1 visas for foreign students, B-1 visas for business-related visitors and B-2 visas for tourism, the State Department official confirmed. The probe will also focus on possible threats to security or abuses of the visa system. The wider review was first reported by Fox News after Secretary of State Marco Rubio had announced visa revocations for foreign officials or persons censoring Americans and some Chinese students. Foreign...
  • Shoe, Dropped: Trump 'Pauses' Student Visas Across the Board

    05/27/2025 5:56:41 PM PDT · by Bobbyvotes · 48 replies
    Hot Air ^ | 6:50 PM | May 27, 2025 | Ed Morrissey
    Universities and colleges across the country can thank Harvard for this latest development. If federal courts won't allow the Department of Homeland Security to deal directly with Harvard on compliance for the Student Education Visa Program (SEVP), the administration can simply make it more difficult for everyone instead. That seems to be the case today, although this may have accelerated a project that would have started soon anyway. After a federal court issued a stay that allows Harvard to continue enrolling foreign students, the Trump administration paused the entire program. Embassies and consulates have been ordered to stop conducting necessary...
  • ‘Nobody told us that!’ Trump erupts on Harvard’s foreign secrecy

    05/26/2025 3:49:40 AM PDT · by george76 · 33 replies
    WND News Center ^ | May 25, 2025 | Joe Kovacs
    President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted Harvard’s secrecy when it comes to the university’s large number of students from foreign countries. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to. Nobody told us that! “We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming. We want those names...
  • Universities should stop basing decisions on race, majority of parents say in new poll

    05/24/2025 8:05:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    College Fix ^ | May 22, 2025 | Micaiah Bilger
    3 in 4 parents of college-age students also oppose men in women’s spaces A majority of parents with college-age students want universities to stop prioritizing race in hiring and scholarship decisions ... The results showed a majority of parents “are at odds with our country’s higher education institutions on several contentious issues that are consistently in today’s political dialogue,” according to a news release. Defending Education works to rid education of ideological agendas. In the poll, which involved parents of 15- to 21-year-old students, 54 percent said universities should not prioritize a student’s race when awarding scholarships, and 57 percent...
  • NEW: Trump Administration Moves to Kick Out Thousands of International Students at Harvard and Prevent Further Enrollment of Foreign Students at School

    05/22/2025 3:15:00 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 11 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 22, 2025 | Cullen Linebargar
    The Trump Administration has delivered a significant blow to Harvard’s wallet with a move that will likely get challenged in court. As The New York Post reported, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem moved to kick out thousands of foreign students enrolled at Harvard University by terminating Harvard’s international student program. She explained this was the administration’s way of holding the Ivy League school accountable for its violent, Anti-Semitic, and pro-China activities. “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Noem wrote on X. “It is a privilege, not a...
  • NEW: Judge Blocks Trump From Revoking Legal Status of International Students Nationwide

    05/22/2025 2:25:03 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 55 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | May 22, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump Administration from revoking the legal status of international students nationwide while their legal challenges are going through the court system. According to the AP, California-based US District Judge Jeffrey White, a George W. Bush appointee, said Trump’s immigration actions “wreaked havoc not only on the lives of Plaintiffs here but on similarly situated F-1 nonimmigrants across the United States and continues do so.”
  • Northeastern College Student Demanded Her Tuition Fees Back After Catching Her Professor Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT

    05/15/2025 11:08:47 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 23 replies
    Fortune ^ | May 15, 2025 | Beatrice Nolan
    A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes. The professor later admitted to using several AI platforms and acknowledged the need for transparency. The incident highlights growing student concerns over professors using AI, a reversal of earlier concerns from professors worried that students would use the technology to cheat. Some students are not happy about their professor’s use of AI. One college senior was so shocked to learn her teacher was using AI to help him create notes that she lodged a...
  • Seven students — some as young as 5 — hit with battery charges for alleged school bus beatdown on 7-year-old classmate (Georgia)

    05/03/2025 8:27:22 PM PDT · by Libloather · 81 replies
    NY Post ^ | 5/03/25 | Anna Young
    Seven Georgia students — some as young as 5 — were arrested for allegedly attacking their 7-year-old classmate during an early morning bus ride to school, according to police. The alleged attackers, who range in age from 5 to 14, were slapped with battery charges for the vicious beatdown that erupted while their bus was en route to Mattie Lively Elementary School in Statesboro on April 18, the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday. Police said they were notified of the heinous assault roughly a week later and identified the troubled students after reviewing the transport’s security footage, which captured...
  • College students don't spend much time studying

    05/02/2025 2:38:26 PM PDT · by george76 · 44 replies
    Joanne Jacobs, Manhattan Institute. ^ | 5/2/2025 | Joanne Jacobs, Rick Hess and Greg Fournier
    College students don't work very hard these days, write Rick Hess and Greg Fournier of the Manhattan Institute. Full-time students say they average 20 to 25 hours of class time and studying each week, and some estimates are even lower. Thirty-five hours a week would be a reasonable amount of time, according to traditional measures. They're not more likely to have paying jobs than earlier generations, research shows. In 2024, the average first-year student reported spending 5.3 hours per week in campus activities and clubs, 9.3 hours working for pay and 11.9 hours relaxing and socializing. Yet most think they're...
  • New York lawmakers agree on plan for ‘bell-to-bell’ school cellphone ban

    04/28/2025 7:54:08 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 7:45 PM CDT, April 28, 2025 | Associated Press
    ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state would ban cellphones in public schools “bell to bell” beginning with the next school year under an agreement announced late Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul.“We’ve protected our kids before from cigarettes, alcohol, and drunk driving, and now we’re protecting them from addictive technology designed to hijack their attention,” Hochul said in announcing the plan as part of a tentative budget agreement with state lawmakers.Hochul, a Democrat, did not immediately detail plans for the ban. Her office has previously said that schools would have some flexibility over how to implement it, with districts deciding...
  • ACLU SUES TRUMP ADMIN. FOR TARGETING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

    04/19/2025 11:02:28 PM PDT · by RandFan · 54 replies
    thehill ^ | 04/19/25 4:10 PM ET | by Filip Timotija
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing President Trump’s administration in federal court for targeting international students who had their legal status revoked. “The consequences of Defendants’ unilateral and unlawful termination are dire. The termination puts students out of lawful student status. Plaintiffs and the class face immigration detention and deportation. Plaintiffs and the class face severe financial and academic hardship. Further, Plaintiffs and the class are not able to obtain their degrees and work pursuant to the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program after graduation,” ACLU’s lawyers wrote in the class action lawsuit filed in New Hampshire. “Indeed, Defendants’...
  • Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked

    04/19/2025 2:30:44 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 31 replies
    BBC News ^ | April 19, 2025 | by Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-King
    For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. The combination of targeted detentions and reports of wide-scale visa revocations have left campuses on edge, from the biggest public universities to elite Ivy League institutions. "I could be next," said one student visa-holder attending Georgetown University, who has written articles about Israel and the war in Gaza. Another student in Texas said he's afraid to leave his apartment,...
  • America faces pro-Hamas intifada on its soil - opinion

    04/14/2025 6:56:15 AM PDT · by Twotone · 18 replies
    The Jerusalem Post ^ | April 9, 2025 | Ryan Mauro
    America’s non-profit sector is at the root of the post-October 7 tidal wave of domestic terrorism, antisemitism, and destructive anti-Israel protests plaguing the United States. A series of large-scale investigations by Capital Research Center (CRC) revealed that the leadership of the so-called “pro-Palestinian” movement is, at its core, anti-American and anti-Western. It views the US exactly the same way it views Israel: as an illegitimate, genocidal entity that must be destroyed. The cumulative conclusion of these reports serves as a warning about what is to come unless the corrective measures CRC identified are implemented: a burgeoning nationwide insurgency in the...
  • 3 dozen more international students and alumni of California universities lose visas: report

    04/07/2025 2:40:25 AM PDT · by Libloather · 13 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/06/25 | David Propper
    At least three dozen more international students and recent alumni of pristine California universities have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration as it continues to zero in on anti-Israel protesters. Stanford University and several colleges part of the University of California system all confirmed to NBC News members of their school communities were caught up in the ongoing crackdown that began last month with the high-profile detainment of Columbia University alum and activist Mahmoud Khalil. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month he’s pulled back 300 visas from foreign students, claiming they should be kicked out of...