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Federal Student Loan Lenders Fight for Survival
30 March 09 04:52 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In what is being viewed as a direct hit to private third-party lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program who are fighting to keep the program alive, the U.S. Department of Education’s preliminary data paints the FFEL program as a costly and Read More...

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Nonprofit Lenders Hurt by Legislation Intended to Help Them
01 August 08 06:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As lenders continue to scale back or suspend their student loan programs amid a troubled economy and now-unprofitable federal education loans, newer legislation designed to help struggling lenders — nonprofit student loan providers in particular — may be doing more harm than good. Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, College Cost Reduction and Access Act, college loans, credit crisis, Department of Educaiton, Education Finance Council, EFC, Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, federal student loans, financial aid, Interest Rates, National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs, NCHELP, NextStudent, Paul Basken, Peter Warren, Shelly Repp, Stafford Loans, student loan availability, student loans, subprime mortgage crisis

With Government’s Help, Lenders Returning to Federal Student Loan Market
05 June 08 02:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A number of lenders who abandoned the federal student loan market in recent months may be returning, in light of a new law designed to keep struggling lenders afloat, according to a Dow Jones Newswires article. Many of the 102 companies that scaled back Read More...

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New York Probe on the Student Loan Industry
20 March 07 05:14 PM | Student Loan Girl | 4 Comments   

On Nov. 7, 2006 Andrew Cuomo was elected the 64th attorney general of the state of New York, and shortly thereafter launched a nationwide investigation into student loan practices at more than 400 universities across the nation, including some of the Read More...

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