Stephanie Hall, PhD

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IRS wouldn’t move an inch to make it easier for student loan borrowers to repay their loans until Congress expressly authorized it, but now we are cool with using tax info to target undocumented immigrants??

@millennial_debt @AissaRCanchola 🫶🫶

Joining @AissaRCanchola in the @stephmhall fan club-- this is a must read. The stakes couldn't be higher for working people with student debt.

Eye-opening piece from the phenomenal @stephmhall on abolishing the Department of Education and the direct harm that would result for students, borrowers and families. teenvogue.com/story/what-wil…

Want to know what will happen to your student loans if Trump guts the Department of Education? @stephmhall explains for @TeenVogue: teenvogue.com/story/what-wil…

Higher ed labor is coming together nationally to fight back against cuts to research and funding. Join us on Feb 13, 19, and 25: loom.ly/G1Az4i8

It is apparently unconstitutional for the president to instruct the Department of Education to restructure and forgive some student loan debt but it is ok for DOGE chair Elon Musk to just get rid of the whole department. Anywho.

In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB: - ordered Equifax to pay $15M - ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers - ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers - sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments This week it's closed.

Trump's latest attempt to cut back on NIH funding has set off alarms in higher ed. If the slash goes unchallenged, colleges will have to cut budgets, raise tuition or reduce research to make up the difference, Kathryn Palmer + @Knott_Katherine report. insidehighered.com/news/governmen…

Watching the GOP attempt to justify their blatant illegal/authoritarian efforts to defy the courts to Biden's efforts on student debt relief is GASLIGHTING 101. FACTS matter. PERIOD.

If you work at the Education Department and are alarmed by what you’re seeing right now, this is my perennial reminder that I’m always reachable by email (zschermele@usatoday.com) or phone/Signal at (406) 836-2246.

I thought Trump and Musk destroyed woke????

[BREAKING] The Trump Administration just made public that DC lobbyist James Bergeron is serving as the government's top higher ed official. Bergeron ran @ncher_us-- a student loan industry trade chaired by @MOHELA's CEO. Just in case you wondered which side Trump is on.

NEW report from @CAPHigherEd: 🚨 7 ways a new House Republican bill would drastically alter the higher ed system, harming students, veterans, borrowers, and colleges: americanprogress.org/article/propos…

There’s no way to describe Elon Musk taking control of the the US Treasury and locking authorized officials out of it except a coup. The one who holds the purse holds the power.

🚨 NEW: How can students and the public know whether a college provides them with a good deal? A new report from @stephmhall and @madisonweiss94 argues how much a college spends on instruction & student support services should be a key metric americanprogress.org/article/reorie…

Of course we know what they mean by Hamas-sympathizers. Question is: will the higher ed lobby speak up? Given how much $ colleges rely on from internat'l students (itself a problematic practice), this seems like a v high-stakes rattle of the saber reuters.com/world/us/tru...

3 Executive Orders solely about trans people in 8 days. It’s scary, it’s exhausting. It won’t stop us. We will continue to advocate for the rights and care of trans people - including trans youth - today, tomorrow, and for however long it takes. Some notes about these EOs 👇🏻

Trump has absolutely no mandate for any of these actions. Pausing funds for critical public services is a dangerous threat to even the most basic functions of our country. @BBKogan weighs in: americanprogress.org/article/trumps…

Shorter @PressSec, please don't ask me what programs are paused bc we haphazardly shut down the government overnight and I am unable to explain why.