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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. — This year’s recipients of the J. Fletcher and Anne Elliott Educational Scholarship awarded last month at Kelseyville High School are seniors Fermin Mendoza and Victor Sepulveda.
This year’s award is $10,000 to each recipient.
Mendoza and Sepulveda both have outstanding academic and athletic high school careers.
Both ranked high in their class. And both had exemplary athletic success through their high school years with Mendoza being a soccer fanatic, and Sepulveda playing soccer, football and tennis.
Mendoza is going to Mendocino Community College and then to Sonoma State with a goal to receive a B.S. in biochemistry while pursuing a professional soccer career.
Sepulveda is going to California Polytechnic State University, majoring in biology and pursuing a career in the medical field.
“This scholarship will help my family financially and relieve the stress of working and studying at the same time,” Mendoza said.
“This takes a big burden off my shoulders, and hopefully I will be able to study more,” Sepulveda said.
This scholarship foundation was originally established by the late Anne Elliott with the help of Rian Sommerfield at Nestegg Investment Consulting and is expected to fund future scholarships for many years to come in memory of her husband J. Fletcher.
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- Written by: University of Utah
The Class of 2022 includes students who graduated in summer 2021, fall 2021 and spring 2022.
Leyone earned a Doctor of Occupational Therapy degree in Spring 2022.
"The Class of 2022 is filled with so many amazing students, with unique and remarkable stories. Among our recent graduates we have a decorated student veteran of the year, an Olympic skier and a Rhodes Scholar-the first at the U in 20 years," said Taylor Randall, president of the University of Utah. "All of our graduates helped create a rich, diverse and vibrant environment during their time at the U. We appreciate their dedication as scholars and their enthusiasm for building a better future."
Students in the Class of 2022 ranged in age from 21 to 73 and earned 8,702 degrees.
Graduates represented 55 U.S. states and territories, and 65 foreign countries.
Learn more about the 153rd general commencement here.
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- Written by: Central Methodist University
Graduates were recognized for academic honors at the ceremony and were treated to a commencement address by former Missouri judge and lawmaker Ted House.
Vanessa Lynette Hughes of Clearlake Oaks, Calif., majored in biology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude.
Since its founding in 1854, CMU has evolved into a university that confers master's, bachelor's and associate's degrees through programming on its main campus in Fayette, Mo., and through extension sites and online.
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- Written by: California Attorney General’s Office
The decision is the culmination of a decade-long legal battle by the California Department of Justice to hold Corinthian Colleges accountable for its predatory conduct and to compel the Department of Education to process debt relief claims submitted by students who took out federal student loans to attend Corinthian Colleges.
“Today’s announcement is life changing for the tens of thousands of borrowers who have long paid the price for Corinthian Colleges' lies and deception,” said Attorney General Bonta on Wednesday. “For these borrowers, whose only mistake was trusting Corinthian Colleges with their higher education dreams, debt relief has been hard fought and long overdue. Today's announcement is the final chapter in a legal battle that has spanned nearly a decade and three attorneys general. I applaud the Department of Education for finally making good on its promise to provide debt relief to these defrauded borrowers.”
The California Attorney General’s Office led the charge against for-profit Corinthian Colleges and its subsidiaries, which operated schools under the Heald, Everest and Wyotech brand names, nearly a decade ago, seeking to put an end to abusive practices that left students under a mountain of debt and far too often without the jobs Corinthian had falsely promised its degrees would provide.
Corinthian specifically targeted low-income, vulnerable students through false advertisements that misrepresented job placement rates and the value of its educational programs. Corinthian illegally used the seals of the armed forces in its advertisements to recruit veterans. It also engaged in illegal debt collection practices.
The California Attorney General's Office ultimately obtained a $1.1 billion judgment against Corinthian for its misconduct.
Following this judgment, the California Attorney General's Office was instrumental in moving the Department of Education to implement a borrower-defense process to grant widespread, expedited loan relief to defrauded Corinthian borrowers.
Based on a joint investigation with the California Attorney General's Office, the Department of Education under President Obama announced that tens of thousands of former Corinthian students were entitled to federal student loan relief. However, immediately following the change in presidential administration, the Department of Education halted processing these claims, leaving more than 50,000 applications pending.
The announcement addresses ongoing litigation filed by the California Attorney General’s Office against the Department of Education in 2017 for withholding promised loan relief to defrauded Corinthian students.
That lawsuit was supported by the California Community Colleges, which lent critical assistance in establishing the concrete harm that the Department of Education’s misconduct caused California’s students and public institutions.
The lawsuit also received crucial support from the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, the East Bay Community Law Center, and the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School.
The announcement will provide nearly 93,000 Californians with an estimated $960 million in federal student loan debt relief. Eligible borrowers will receive relief regardless of whether they have filed a borrower defense application.