Comments on: Yavapai College $69.5 Million Bond Projects Near Completion

By: Chandra Tenley

Chandra Tenley — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 21:16:46 +0000

I don’t know if this is something that you would include in your “Eye”. If so, below is the information for a public service announcement:

Registration is now open for the following Yavapai College classes:

Ballroom Dance: Rumba, Cha Cha, and Swing – DAN
136 201, Duration: Aug 19, 2013 – Dec 9, 2013,
Yavapai College Clarkdale Campus – I Building
Aerobic Room

and

Country Western Swing – DAN 198 210, Duration:
Aug 19, 2013 – Sept 21, 2013, Downtown Camp
Verde Parks and Rec. Classrooms 206 & 207

By: Rob, Natalia, Kyle, Aaron & More

Rob, Natalia, Kyle, Aaron & More — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:17:23 +0000

As the July 1st deadline for the doubling of interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford loans draws near, StudentDebtCrisis.org has partnered with a number of organizations such as: Young Invincibles, Youth Build, SparkAction, Our Time, Urban Underground, One Million Degrees, The Student Nation, United Negro College Fund, League of Young Voters, EdTrust, PIRG, Equal Justice Works, Campus Progress, USSA, NCLC, NCAN, Rock the Vote, La Raza Opportunity Nation, Moms Rising and Rebuild the Dream to participate in a national Social Media Day of Action.

Millions of current and former students will be taking to the web to make their voices heard in Washington and I’m writing to ask you to participate as well.

Here’s How You Can Participate:

Tweet Your Representatives:

Click here to access the Student Debt Crisis comprehensive list of all 435 members of the House – find your Representative and click the link next to his or her name to send a pre-loaded tweet demanding #DontDoubleMyRate

Other Sample Tweets:

Video: We believe in #DreamsNotDebt. Check out why we can’t afford for fed student interest rates to 2x 7/1 http://bit.ly/11paUgP
How many burritos worth of #StudentDebt do you have? Check out @YI_Care’s interactive #infographic http://debt.younginvincibles.org/ #DreamsNotDebt
Write to your Representatives:

http://action.edtrust.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=14066
Post on Facebook:

Video Alert! We believe in #DreamsNotDebt. Check out why we can’t afford for federal student interest rates to double on July 1st http://bit.ly/11paUgP
Sign These Petitions:

Tell Congress to Bank on Us!
$51 Billion in Student Loan Profits – Tell Congress This Has to Stop!
Don’t Raise the Interest Rates on Student Loans
Support the Student Loan Fairness Act – HR 1330!
Stand With Me and Tell Congress: Stop Student Loan Interest Rates From Doubling

Participate in #DreamsNotDebt Twitter Town Hall

We’re having an all-day Twitter Town Hall on Thursday, June 13th from 9am to 5pm EDT. Join us to see which special guests will drop in. We’ll be using the hashtag #DreamsNotDebt. You can submit questions to @YI_Care ahead of time or tune in and ask your questions during the chat.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support! Hope you can join us for this monumental day of action!

Sincerely,

Rob, Natalia, Kyle, Aaron & The Student Debt Crisis Team

By: Robert Applebaum

Robert Applebaum — Sun, 26 May 2013 18:26:19 +0000

Now that you’ve signed the petition(s) in favor of Senator Warren’s “Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act,” it’s time to take the next step. I’m writing today to ask you to please contact your Senators today and ask them to co-sponsor this groundbreaking piece of legislation that would allow students to borrow at the same rates as the big banks.

To easily find out who your Senators are and how to get in touch with them simply call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and cooperation!

Sincerely,

Robert Applebaum
StudentDebtCrisis.org

By: Robert Applebaum

Robert Applebaum — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:20:19 +0000

Recent investigations of the for-profit college industry show that they over-charge their students, give them a subpar education that can’t be put to good use, and load them up with significant student loan debt. Even worse, these for-profit diploma mills aggressively target veterans for their hard-earned GI Bill dollars because GI Bill dollars fall outside the federal cap that for-profit schools otherwise face on federal financial aid. That leads the for-profit industry to aggressively target veterans, treating them as “dollar signs in uniform,” as Holly Petraeus has said. And this robs veterans of the promise of the GI Bill – to help them gain a high-quality education as they transition back to normal life.

If you go to or went to a for-profit college and had a bad experience, or if you are a veteran or active duty service member who had a bad experience at a for-profit college, then we’d really like to hear from you. And if you are veteran who was scammed by a for-profit, you may qualify for loan forgiveness (more info below).

Please email us at forprofits@studentdebtcrisis.org and tell us your age, what school you attended, how much debt you have, and how you believe you were taken advantage of. Did you face unrelenting and aggressive recruiters? Was the quality of the education worse than you were promised? Were you promised job help and then got none? Did they promise you a job in a field that their education doesn’t qualify you for? (Some students even find out they aren’t eligible to sit for a licensing exam that’s necessary for some jobs.) Did they trick you into a high-interest loan? We’ll help you submit your story to the US Department of Education, which is just starting public hearings on student abuse at for-profit colleges. Please send us your stories as soon as possible.

Don’t forget to include your full name and phone number – we may want to talk to you directly to find out more and help you share your story with the media and/or decision makers.

Finally, some good news for veterans who feel they’ve been scammed by a for-profit school: The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) has partnered with The Veterans’ Student Loan Relief fund to help active-duty military, veterans, and family members defray the student loan debt they accumulated while attending colleges operated by unscrupulous for-profit education companies.

The IAVA website is the new home for the Fund, which awards grants of as much as $5,000 to student vets who have been taken advantage of by for-profit colleges. To apply, please visit:

http://iava.org/loan-relief?org=403&lvl=100&ite=6803&lea=179087&ctr=0&par=1

Thanks for all your help and support.

Sincerely,
Robert Applebaum, Executive Director
StudentDebtCrisis.org

By: Isabel Pierce, Surprise AZ

Isabel Pierce, Surprise AZ — Sun, 19 May 2013 18:04:11 +0000

I am appalled at the funding being thrown away on this college. I am not in favor of its expansion and do not find any justification for its requests to expand.

We have a disproportionate number of mediocre schools in AZ serving their own bottom lines and not the students.

If a college fails to prove that the government isn’t bankrolling its attending student population and its students “paying to go” are a fraction of its population, there is no need for this school to be more than a feeder school. It should generate revenue and support itself via instructional online courses better than bricks and mortar expansion. The faculty and local government fail again.