"In 2016, Jeff Selingo and EY published a report stating that more than 800 schools were facing major downsizing, mergers, and closures. But their report did not list the schools most likely to fail. It would appear that higher education and business... read more

In 2019, DeVry University continues to deceive consumers through its DeVry website and online recruiting. As a subsidiary of Cogswell Education and Palm Ventures, a shoe-string operation in comparison to its previous parent company, matters could get... read more

"Student loan debt continues to rise. In 2018, there was a significant number of news articles disclosing the negative effects of student loan debt on the lives of Millenials and their families."... read more

"KSF’s investigation is focusing on whether Navient’s officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to Navient’s shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws. If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation... read more

How low can it go? https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/NAVI

Are you prepared? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/new-watchdog-group-aims-to-spur-action-on-student-debt/2018/11/27/8d07afa6-f288-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.b85cec1e5cc6 https://www.npr.org/sections/money/

Student Loan Justice, Strike Debt, Debt Collective, ITT Tech Warriors, I Am Ai, Higher Ed Not Debt are just a few groups looking for debt relief. https://collegemeltdown.blogspot.com/

"One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. That’s the finding of a Department of Education audit of practices at Navient... read more

Read all the other BS here... https://seekingalpha.com/article/4213955-navient-corp-navi-ceo-jack-remondi-q3-2018-results-earnings-call-transcript?part=single

"The next generation of graduates will include more borrowers who may never be able to repay." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/the-student-loan-debt-crisis-is-about-to-get-worse

California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/business/navient-student-loans-california.html

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC (“KSF”), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into Navient Corporation (NasdaqGS: NAVI)... read more

From a Navient surrogate at Seeking Alpha: Navient is the largest private servicer of student loans, and that business will continue to expand. The company consistently provides value to shareholders, and will continue to do so through its corporate... read more

Navient is buying back up to 15% of its stock to inflate their share price. A sign of desperation?

More dissatisfaction about college. This is resulting in more enrollment declines each year. https://www.aarp.org/money/credit-loans-debt/info-2018/student-loan-debt-across-generations.html... read more

Worth sharing around the office... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=007Jp_ljxH0

"Members of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States, announced on Wednesday a lawsuit against student loan servicer Navient, alleging the company deceived borrowers and prevented them from accessing... read more

More enrollment losses in several states. More losses in the for-profit and community college sectors. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-enrollments-continue-decline-several-states-dahn-shaulis/?published=t

Navient losing bid for NEXTGEN Financial Services? https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=18d38106a0616cc4841d62f15c0917f9&tab=core&_cview=1

More bad news for student debtors. A website that provided information about student loan debt will now be a hook for Lending Tree. https://www.thelayoff.com/lendingtree

"When it comes to your student loans, the ball is in your court" https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2018/07/09/student-loans-navient-lawsuit/#2f1830b72777

A message from the CEO. Don't blame us. A typical technique of neutralization. https://seekingalpha.com/pr/17205502-navient-ceo-california-attorney-general-lawsuit-instead-filing-lawsuits-states-address-real

According to National Center for Education Statistics charts, public higher education institutions overall saw increased revenues in recent years, but private colleges saw a $46 Billion loss in revenues from 2013 to 2015. In 2016, EY suggested that... read more

"Students are targeted and lied to by subprime colleges and they are often treated with indifference by public education." "Rational choice" in US education, however, must be examined in a society affected by deindustrialization and deskilling of... read more

The National Center for Education Statistics is moderating its perspective on higher education enrollment. Earlier NCES reports projected enrollment to grow to more than 22 million students by 2023. In the Department of Education's The Condition of... read more

"New data released last fall by the Trump Department of Education paints an even bleaker portrait of the lives of student loan borrowers. Education researcher Erin Dunlop Velez has just published a thoughtful study that analyzes the new student loan... read more

"The interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a reorganization Wednesday that will eliminate the separate arm that focused on the interests of students and other young Americans."... read more

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/04/26/colleges-are-using-consultants-to-manipulate-student-loan-default-rates-gao-says/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7d3bcf2d9af4

I am writing an article for College Meltdown to counter the "commonsense" idea that college debt is always "good debt." It's part of a series of articles I am doing about behavioral economics and college choice... read more

Vulture capital firm Canyon Capital making a big move into NAVI. Oh, this should be interesting. https://seekingalpha.com/pr/17121042-navient-statement-schedule-13d-filing-canyon-capital-advisors

Looks like Navient Foundation does a lot to create goodwill. Does it do enough to make them forget that NAVI is evil? "The participants in the program, which provides college readiness and career awareness to African-American teens, will journey... read more

The House Bill would reduce government-subsidized loans by $26B over 10 years. Part of the Trump/DeVos plan to defund, deregulate, and privatize higher education... read more

Navient had a negative quarter. Now what? It looks like lots of "restructuring." https://seekingalpha.com/article/4139750-navients-navi-ceo-jack-remondi-q4-2017-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=5

"The looming student loan crisis is worse than previously thought, according to a new analysis of federal data on student loan default, which the U.S. Department of Education released in October."... read more

"The bill eliminates an Obama administration rule designed to weed out career education programs that graduate too many students with debt they can’t repay. Another provision, meanwhile, adds new graduation benchmarks for minority-serving... read more

Sounds like a class war about to erupt... In 19 states, government agencies can seize state-issued professional licenses from residents who default on their educational debts. Another state, South Dakota, suspends driver's licenses, making it... read more

So what will Navient do, now that Robert Cordray is gone? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/business/cordray-consumer-protection.html

What is NASDAC going to do about this company who has faurdulently and unfairly collected without a paper trail on whom they have sold student loans. They owe millions or more to 44,000,000 people and they will not give accountings of whom they have... read more

"The company's subprime products included high interest rates and origination fees, according to the suit, in some cases as high as the equivalent of a 15.75 percent interest rate. One of the company's emails on a subprime lending workshop described... read more

Navient has the highest number of complaints of any student loan servicer, more than 8200. It also has the highest rate of complaints, by far. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/what-the-lawsuit-against-navient-means-for-your-student-loans.html... read more