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Whether or not you think she did a good job she does make several valid points -
“DeVos also asserted that it would be “fundamentally unfair to ask two-thirds of Americans who don’t go to college to pay the bills for the mere one-third who do. And it’s even more unfair to those who have held up their end of the bargain and paid back their student loans themselves to subsidize those who don’t save, plan, and pay.”
The comments were swift in coming, and this one was interesting -
“It was a deeply inappropriate speech to be given at an apolitical training conference,” Eddy Conroy, associate director of institutional transformation at Temple University’s Hope Center College, Community, and Justice, told Yahoo Finance. “It was a nakedly political speech which is very on brand for Betsy DeVos…. [and] it also frankly feels very anti-higher education.”
Look at the person giving it. An “associate director of institutional transformation” in one of Temple’s centers.
What does this job do? And if there’s an associate director, is there also a director? Looked it up - there are 8 members of the leadership team of this function.
There are too many of these social justice make work roles in colleges that bloat up costs and tuition without directly being tied to learning. Not only that, but they’re making a political statement. Any universities and colleges making partisan political statements should lose federal funding. This isn’t a party thing, it’s that colleges need to remain totally non-partisan.
So no surprise that Eddy Conroy felt it was inappropriate when the center he works for issued a statement praising Biden’s win...
“Institutions must also take a long look in the mirror,” DeVos said. “The higher education industry needs to deliver products that are worth the price tag.”
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Who cares what she says, this is what the 3rd time in 4 years we have heard her name, Like the rest of them she's out the door next month. I really don't care what her view on Public Education at any level is because we already know she doesn't believe in it.
Who cares what she says, this is what the 3rd time in 4 years we have heard her name, Like the rest of them she's out the door next month. I really don't care what her view on Public Education at any level is because we already know she doesn't believe in it.
So if the new person comes in and promotes “free college for all” you’re ok with paying for that?
I have 2 kids, one of whom will be starting college in Biden’s final year of office, and I don’t support free college or loan forgiveness despite being able to benefit from it.
Who cares what she says, this is what the 3rd time in 4 years we have heard her name, Like the rest of them she's out the door next month. I really don't care what her view on Public Education at any level is because we already know she doesn't believe in it.
Her comments are disingenuous. She works for a president who declared bankruptcy not once, not twice, not three times, leaving taxpayers, creditors and suppliers on the hook.
Herein lies part of the problem with student loan debt: it is not governed in the manner of other debt, in language which - having read my niece's loan which she just paid off - is about as clear as Klingon.
Whether or not you think she did a good job she does make several valid points -
“DeVos also asserted that it would be “fundamentally unfair to ask two-thirds of Americans who don’t go to college to pay the bills for the mere one-third who do. And it’s even more unfair to those who have held up their end of the bargain and paid back their student loans themselves to subsidize those who don’t save, plan, and pay.”
The comments were swift in coming, and this one was interesting -
“It was a deeply inappropriate speech to be given at an apolitical training conference,” Eddy Conroy, associate director of institutional transformation at Temple University’s Hope Center College, Community, and Justice, told Yahoo Finance. “It was a nakedly political speech which is very on brand for Betsy DeVos…. [and] it also frankly feels very anti-higher education.”
Look at the person giving it. An “associate director of institutional transformation” in one of Temple’s centers.
What does this job do? And if there’s an associate director, is there also a director? Looked it up - there are 8 members of the leadership team of this function.
There are too many of these social justice make work roles in colleges that bloat up costs and tuition without directly being tied to learning. Not only that, but they’re making a political statement. Any universities and colleges making partisan political statements should lose federal funding. This isn’t a party thing, it’s that colleges need to remain totally non-partisan.
So no surprise that Eddy Conroy felt it was inappropriate when the center he works for issued a statement praising Biden’s win...
“Institutions must also take a long look in the mirror,” DeVos said. “The higher education industry needs to deliver products that are worth the price tag.”
Some of those comments are hilarious considering the BILLIONS her rat family has made off of funneling PUBLIC money to her companies. The very definition of a rat.
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Overall, DeVos’ paperwork showcases an extensive web of investments, several of which raise eyebrows. She has investments in companies that hound students to pay their federal loan debts, as well as in psychiatric hospitals under federal investigation for Medicare fraud. She also has more than $1 million in an undisclosed venture related to education. And although her filings do not show any direct ownership stake in a private for-profit college, she has chosen to put some of her money into firms that are invested in that industry.
DeVos profits Millions from student loan misery
Before Devos’ confirmation hearing, The Washington Postreported suspicions that she had a financial stake in a company that, until recently, held a lucrative contract from the U.S. Department of Education to pursue the loans of defaulted student borrowers. Page 70 of the ethics paperwork confirmed that suspicion as fact. Located within a fund labeled “MCF CLO IV, LLC” is an investment in Performant Recovery Inc., which previously operated as Diversified Collection Services Inc. According to a Department of Education spreadsheet for the end of the 2016 federal fiscal year, Performant had more than $458 million in federal student loans in collections. It is not currently receiving any new loans because it lost out on a new contract last year—a decision it is currently challenging.
Bye Felicia. Drain the swamp. Even private schools see her for the RAT she is.
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