By Meredtith Kolodner, Photo: Malik Rainey/The New York Times, The Hechinger Report, February 18, 2022
After years of inflexible debt-collection practices that have burdened SUNY students with punitive payment schedules, high interest and crippling collection fees, New York State officials are promising change.
The board of trustees of the State University of New York system voted last month to review the way it collects student debt at all 64 SUNY campuses, and the interim chancellor, Deborah Stanley, pledged to make additional significant changes.
“Campus debt-collection practices that prevent students in good academic standing from registering for classes,” Ms. Stanley said in an email, “are an unfair means of pursuing payment and should be prohibited in the future.”
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