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Students Could Wave Goodbye to Merit–Based Federal Aid
25 June 09 09:41 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

In another move to restructure the federal financial aid system, President Obama has proposed ending the government’s five-year foray into merit-based student aid and redirecting those financial aid funds to the need-based Pell Grant program, reports Read More...

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Student Loan Lending Still Going Strong
12 January 09 04:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Despite being hampered last year by a lack of investors and a lack of access to credit, federal student loan lenders are surviving the economic crisis — making the student loan market one of the few lending industries still able to thrive this year, The Read More...

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Justice Department Should Weigh In On Student-Loan Loophole Scandal, Senator Says
08 October 08 04:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Rep. Thomas Petri , R-Wis., wrote to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings this week asking whether she plans to involve the Justice Department in the investigation of a federal subsidy loophole that benefited nonprofit student loan providers and Read More...

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Government’s Direct Lending Program Sees 43-Percent Increase in Volume
02 September 08 05:36 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As cash-strapped lenders continue to drop out of the Federal Family Education Loan Program , the number of student loans originated for the 2008–09 school year through the government’s Direct Loan Program has increased by 43 percent, reports The Chronicle Read More...

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Education Department at Fault for Low Participation in Grant Programs, Audit Shows
04 August 08 05:58 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an audit of the Department of Education , the department’s own inspector general blames the lack of participation in the government’s Academic Competitiveness and National Smart Grant programs on his department’s failure to effectively promote the Read More...

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Proposed Bill Combines House, Senate Versions of the Higher Education Act
14 May 08 04:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Congressional aides hope to finalize a renewal of the Higher Education Act by Memorial Day that merges different versions of the proposed bill passed separately by the House of Representatives and the Senate last year, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

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President Bush Signs Legislation That Boosts Availability of Student Loans
08 May 08 09:15 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

On May 7, President George Bush signed into law legislation intended to help stabilize the $85-billion student loan industry and to avert a predicted shortage in student loans. The law will allow the U.S. Department of Education to buy bundled student Read More...

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Department of Education Planning Emergency Financial Aid Survey
18 April 08 04:45 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an effort to better gauge the availability of federal student loans, the U.S. Department of Education is planning to issue an emergency survey to the 4,500 colleges that participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program. With almost 50 FFELP Read More...

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