Three months ago, the Biden administration rolled out a plan for canceling some student debt. But in the past week, after 26 million borrowers had submitted applications for relief, two court rulings brought it to a halt.

For financial aid offices, many of which are understaffed, the court actions have created waves of questions and concerns from current students and alumni. The constant stop-and-go of the program is making many borrowers feel like “a political Ping-Pong ball,” one official says.

California has the most Hispanic Serving Institutions among its colleges of any state—174, including 21 California State University campuses and five University of California campuses. 

But how well are HSIs—which enroll almost 90 percent of the state’s Latino undergraduates—actually serving Latino students? It’s a mixed bag, students and advocates say.

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The University of California, Berkeley School of Law is withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report's annual law-school ranking. The announcement comes one day after Yale Law School and Harvard Law School pulled out of the high-profile publication.

Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says the magazine’s formula penalizes institutions that help students pursue careers in public-service law and motivates schools to enroll more high-income students who don’t need to borrow to earn their degrees.