The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan this month. Anticipation for the ruling is high.
Today, President Biden announced the approval of $1.2 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 153,000 borrowers currently enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan. The Biden-Harris Administration has now approved nearly $138 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 3.9 million borrowers...
Since I'll be back in university soon, as an unusually old student (late 30s) for a BSc program, and also queer, and trans, and a woman, I'm interested in experiences, advice, etc from others who have been in a similar situation too.
Like, will the age-difference with my co-students be an issue for example?
Właśnie się zorientowałem, że na moim koncie brakuje #introduction! Chyba czas je w końcu ogarnąć.
🎓Jestem #student Informatyki w Wyższej Szkole Biznesu – National-Louis University.
😁 Interesuję się grafiką komputerową (głównie wektorową i #3D), grami (głównie #Portal czy #Minecraft, ale też wiele mało znanych tytułów), oglądaniem transmisji z gameplay’ów, sprzętami inteligentnego domu oraz w sumie wszystkim związanym z komputerami (choć bardziej #software niż hardware) i nowoczesnymi technologiami.
🖌️ Tworzę podcasty, wpisy na bloga oraz filmy jak mam wenę - znajdziesz je na https://social.mstankiewi.cz.
👨💻 Znam podstawy C++, #HTML oraz #CSS.
♿️ Warto może też wspomnieć, ale nie jest to priorytet, że jestem niepełnosprawny - choruję na rdzeniowy zanik mięśni (SMA) typu II i od 2020 przyjmuję #Nusinersen (#Spinraza).
To chyba wszystko. Jakbyście chcieli pooglądać moje projekty to zapraszam na https://www.mstankiewi.cz.
Pozdro!
Dude. You had $3,000 in student loans. Some of "these kids" graduated from college $70,000 in debt for the same degree you got, now they're earning half as much as you did for a comparable job and they have no expectation of any retirement benefits, and they've been paying on that loan for fifteen years and owe more on it now than they did when they started paying it. They are being ruthlessly exploited by student loan management companies whose entire business model is based upon gouging people who are struggling to pay off their student loans.
Would it fucking KILL YOU to show a little compassion and understanding?
Today in Labor History October 1, 1964: The Free Speech Movement began on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, when activist Jack Weinberg was arrested for refusing to show his identification to the campus police while standing at an illegal political literature table. Thousands of students spontaneously surrounded the police car, which remained there for 32 hours, with Weinberg inside. Protesters used the car as a speaker's podium. The Free Speech Movement lasted for two years and was the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. Students were fighting for, and won, the right to have public political activities on campus, particularly in support of the Civil Rights and Anti-Vietnam War Movements.
"Sixty-four percent of #Jewish#parents say their #student has eliminated at least one potential #college, 96 percent say they are worried about #antisemitism on #campus and 80 percent say they are focused on campus safety in their college search process."
Hey Fedi friends! It's the end of the month again which means it's time for a new mutual aid request. (This ended up being a little longer than I expected but bare with me! CashApp & PayPal links at the end! :floof_Heart:)
To try and keep this short and since many of the folks who have known me or seen me around the Fediverse know or have an idea of what the current situation is like.
I'm a minor with no source of income outside of coding which does not bring nearly enough in for me to even buy lunch most months so I have to resort to mutual aids or theft (Which got me in a lot of legal trouble, but fuck the corporates.). I need at least enough fundings to support me (Age 16, turning 17 this year) and my younger sibling (age 15).
I am a high school student living in a crappy situation with divorced parents. Where one house, the main house, I am refused basic needs such as, but not limited to, food, water, hygiene, clothing, proper medical care, etc. While the other house, my mothers, is a hoarder mess with little to no food, and when there is non expired food that has not been gotten into by animals, months, mold, maggots, etc, it is often times one of the following: Chocolate, cookies, Twinkies, hostess foods, etc. My mother hoards much more than just garbage but indeed, animals also. (With over 70 animals in the house and dogs who are not potty trained along with more animals, outside of the house).
Neither houses include proper medical care. I have a chronic skin disease that causes me severe pain and if it gets bad enough, it becomes an open wound that tunnels often times on my chest or on my legs. My parents do not supply the proper medications I need for these, and when asked or mentioned needing the medications, I get told "Get a job". (Which I am also not allowed to have.)
I'm constantly at risk of being kicked out of the house at any time without warning, a couple of months ago I was locked out of the house in regards to being trans and using my chosen name tho thankfully this was after a school play and I had a safe place at the time.
CPS does not listen. The cops do not listen. I cannot speak up about any of these issues even to trusted adults as this causes more issues at home and gets CPS involved.
Cost breakdowns for the month! Any extra fundings will be put towards getting my parrot a new urn (His last one unfortunately broke).
MEDICATIONS: $50 (4x meds for chronic disease (3 prescription + 1 one reg), anxiety/insomnia meds, pain killers)
CAT FOOD: $20
TOTAL: $500
NOT URGENT BUT STILL NEEDED: I will be doing commissions in regards to funding for this stuff, it might take a little bit but I'll do it o7
URN REPLACEMENT: $160 (I know this is expensive but it was the cheapest urn I could find that was made with a decent quality that would work better for traveling with him, as this bird means a lot to me, even in death. If you've known or seen me around within my past year and a half ish on Fedi you'd know how much my beloved Leo was worth to me<3)
(We attempted to fix the urn but it didn't work very well as it proceeded to keep breaking and at this point it's cheaper just to replace it)
LAPTOP FIX: $20
(Keyboard had an incident where one of the keys broke and need to be replaced, this was a rough estimate on the price it should cost from a friend. - The laptop doesn't have a warranty 😹 but I need this for personal use + school + studies)
If you are an #educator, you may have spent recent weeks grappling with your position with respect to #student#NonviolentResistance. You’re not alone, and in this moment, perhaps it is helpful to identify ways #teachers & staff at #schools, #colleges & #universities have supported students engaged in nonviolent #CivilResistance. Below, I will share a range of options, progressing from familiar #faculty roles to those with greater proximity to student #NonviolentAction.
If a black or brown #student got caught planning a mass #shooting at a house of #worship, I guarantee he wouldn't get off with a suspended sentence and a #bookReport. I'm all for restorative #justice, but the double standard this has illuminated is pretty stark.
I’m supporting #student#protest in #Amsterdam remotely - through my “boots on the ground”, belonging to my wonderful rebel Alisa: #Occupation of #UvA still going strong, asking more people to come & to #donate supplies
"Abolish Criminology presents critical scholarship on criminology and criminal justice ideologies and practices, alongside emerging freedom-driven visions and practices for new world formations.
The book introduces readers to a detailed history and analysis of crime as a concept and its colonizing trajectories into existence and enforcement. These significant contexts buried within peculiar academic histories and classroom practices are often overlooked or unknown outside academic and public discussions, causing the impact of racializing-gendering-sexualizing histories to extend and grow through criminology’s creation of crime, extending how the concept is weaponized and enforced through the criminal legal system. It offers written, visual, and poetic teachings from the perspectives of students, professors, imprisoned and formerly imprisoned persons, and artists. This allows readers to engage in multi-sensory, inter-disciplinary, and multi-perspective teachings on criminology’s often discussed but seldom interrogated mythologies on violence and danger, and their wide-reaching enforcements through the criminal legal system’s research, theories, agencies, and dominant cultures.
Abolish Criminology serves the needs of undergraduate and graduate students and educators in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, policy makers, activists, community organizers, social movement builders, and various reading groups in the general public who are grappling with increased critical public discourse on policing and criminal legal reform or abolition."
In the time it took a Texas A& M #professor to drive home from a #lecture on the opioid crisis, a #student complaint wound its way through the bureaucracy to threaten her #academicfreedom & #FreeSpeech#FirstAmendment rights, and her career was put on ice. There’s a reason for this speedy dispatch of her freedoms, and so much more to this story. Read it & despair. #highereducation
Here are key things to know as Supreme Court nears decision on Biden's student loan forgiveness (www.cnbc.com)
The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan this month. Anticipation for the ruling is high.
California Ph.D. student's research trip to Mexico ends in violent death: "He was in the wrong place" (www.cbsnews.com)
Authorities discovered Gabriel Trujillo's body in the state of Sonora, days after his fiancée reported him missing.
FACT SHEET: President Biden Cancels Student Debt for more than 150,000 Student Loan Borrowers Ahead of Schedule | The White House (www.whitehouse.gov)
Today, President Biden announced the approval of $1.2 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 153,000 borrowers currently enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) repayment plan. The Biden-Harris Administration has now approved nearly $138 billion in student debt cancellation for almost 3.9 million borrowers...
Why There Is A Chance That The Supreme Court Could Uphold Student Loan Forgiveness - Above the Law (abovethelaw.com)