Student Loan debt
Senator Chuck Schumer Wants to Extend Moratorium on Student-Loan Payments: Is that a Good Idea?
Quite a few country songs are about guys who made a big mistake when they were young and went to...
LSU Football Coach Brian Kelly: Can a Guy from Notre Dame Sell Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers?
Brian Kelly hasn't even started work yet as LSU's new football coach, and people are already making fun of him...
LSU signs $95 million contact for a new football coach: "We must have been our of our minds"
John Prine and Melba Montgomery recorded a great country song a few years ago: We Must Have Been Out of...
How to Choose A College: Advice Originally Posted on WalletHub
Jacob Sanders, a journalist with WalletHub, kindly asked me to share my advice on the various roles of college towns...
After a Long Pause, 30 Million Student Borrowers Will Begin Repaying Their Student Loans in February. Most Say They're Not Ready to Pay
Last year, in response to the COVID pandemic, the Department of Education pressed the pause button on the federal student-loan...
International Student Financial Aid UK
Studying in the UK doesn’t have to be expensive. While tuition fees are on the rise, international students can apply...
Marchus v. Student Loans of North Dakota: Another Victory for Student-Loan Debtors in the Eighth Circuit
In 2020, Debra Jean Marchus filed an adversary proceeding in a North Dakota bankruptcy court, seeking to discharge about $38,000...
Ashline v. Department of Education: Dental Assistant with Master's Degree from Kaplan U. discharges $230,000 in student loan debt
Diane Ashline, a 47-year old single mother, worked for 20 years as a dental assistant. Hoping to increase her income,...
Detour: Don't Choose a College Major That Won't Help You Get a Good Job
As Junior Brown reminded us in Detour, a class Country song, we can avoid a lot of trouble if we...
Private Student-Loan Debt at an All-Time High: TICAS Releases Snoozer Report
According to a recent report by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), the 2020 class of college graduates...
The College Bookstore: Where Are the Friggin' Books?
An LSU student, Kathryn Craddock, wrote a scathing critique of LSU's book store--operated, of course, by Barnes & Noble. "The...
Luxury Student Housing and the Slumification of American College Towns
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cotton production was a staple of America's Southern economy. Even today, the United...
