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Federal debt relief access for Colorado adjunct professors passes
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Many of the 10,500 adjunct professors working in Colorado could receive federal student debt relief – thanks to a bill passed by the Colorado legislature on Wednesday. If signed into law, Senate Bill 84 would make adjunct professors eligible for the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program by multiplying the hours they work by 4.35 to meet the program’s…
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Colorado advances proposal to qualify adjunct professors for federal loan relief
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Adjunct professor Andrea Troncoso has over $130,000 in student debt, and, despite faithfully making payments for over a decade, the balance is only going up. Though Troncoso works more than full-time hours at the Community College of Denver and Metropolitan State University, she is not considered a full-time professor because adjuncts are contract workers only…
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Federal judge lets professor’s disability discrimination claim proceed against CU
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A federal judge denied the University of Colorado’s request to dismiss a medical professor’s disability discrimination lawsuit, which alleged that the school suspended her because it perceived she was cognitively impaired. Robin Slover, a professor of clinical practice in anesthesiology at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus who has worked for the university on-and-off since 1975,…
