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    Trump’s PSLF Rule Faces Legal Challenges: Public Service Loan Forgiveness

    Trump’s PSLF Rule Faces Legal Challenges: Public Service Loan Forgiveness

    The Trump administration's new PSLF rule, restricting Public Service Loan Forgiveness based on employers' activities, faces legal challenges over alleged executive overreach and ideological bias. Critics cite potential harm to nonprofits and public service workers.

    Occidental College settles OCR complaint

    Occidental College settles OCR complaint

    Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.