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Howard U. Students and Union Workers Protest Over Aid Delays, Labor Practices

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Student advocacy director Corey Briscoe, in white T-shirt, addresses some of the 350 protesters. (By Gerald Martineau — The Washington Post)

Washington Post: Howard U. Students and Union Workers Protest Over Aid Delays, Labor Practices

About 350 students and union workers crowded the plaza outside Howard University’s administration building Friday morning, protesting a long list of grievances — including problems with on-campus housing, delays in financial aid payments and labor practices — and at one point threatening a sit-in before they were turned away from the building’s doors.

Anatomy of a Flawed Hire

Inside Higher Ed: Anatomy of a Flawed Hire

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was in a vulnerable state as it hired a new president late in 2007.

The group had been through the grinder of New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo’s inquiry into student loan malfeasance, partly because of NASFAA leaders’ own missteps and partly because of the politician’s opportunism. Questions about the association’s own practices had led it to agree to a settlement in which it adopted a new code of conduct, a decision that divided the association’s members.