Commentary: How the pandemic unfairly saddled low-income California college students with debt
by Charlie Eaton, Jonathan Glater and Laura Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
Mar 31, 2022
3 minutes
As if remote learning, quarantines and sick family members were not enough, hundreds of thousands of California’s most financially vulnerable college students now face an additional challenge: surprise debts owed to their community colleges and public universities.
When growing numbers of low-income students left college in the middle of the school year during the pandemic, their financial aid awards became “institutional debts” owed and due for payment to their schools effective immediately.
Some California community colleges and Cal State universities wisely
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