Special thanks to Emily Egan, a graduate student at George Washington University and employee of the American Action Forum in Washington, DC for her writing and thoughtful contributions.
This is an extreme case, but I talked to one single mother who went back to school in her mid-30s and who has since watched her unpaid student loans swell to a hundred thousand dollars, thanks to interest and fees.
Thanks to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the university cleared the student of wrongdoing and issued a formal statement yesterday.