Professor and Department Chairperson for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Alan A. Aja was invited as an expert to contribute to an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court calling to vacate current injunctions (Biden v. Nebraska https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/biden-v-nebraska/) blocking student loan cancellation. Aja joined a group of economists, sociologists, and higher education scholars in providing academic expertise on pandemic-situated rationale for the Biden administration’s plan for student loan debt relief for low income borrowers. The amicus brief, filed on November 23rd, is available here: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/biden-v-nebraska/ Prof. Aja had previously joined a co-author of the brief, scholar Louise Seamster (University of Iowa), in a Brookings Institute piece on the regressive structure of the student loan system: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2022/01/24/a-regressive-student-loan-system-results-in-costly-racial-disparities
