Higher Education Leaders Celebrate the Resignation of Betsy DeVos
In The News Piece in Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Department of Education
Jan. 8, 2021
Wesley Whistle was quoted in Diverse Issues in Higher Education about Besty DeVos' controversial tenure as Secretary of Education.
Some higher education scholars pointed to her repeal of gainful employment, an Obama-era rule that penalized low-quality, for-profit colleges with high numbers of students unable to pay off their debts. Policy experts also emphasized her borrower defense to repayment rule, which enforced stricter criteria for federal student loan borrowers to have their debts forgiven in cases where they took out loans to pay for fraudulent schools.
DeVos spent her tenure “helping her friends in the for-profit sector,” said Wesley Whistle, senior advisor for policy and strategy for higher education at the think tank New America. “… It’s going to have a long-term effect on students who will be loaded up with debt they can’t afford. It’s placing a burden on them for the rest of their lives.”
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