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NY Attorney General To Sue Student Loan Lender For Deceptive Marketing
08 September 08 02:18 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue student loan provider Goal Financial, LLC for using deceptive marketing practices to attract new business, according to a CNNMoney.com article (“ Student Lenders Under Scrutiny ,” Sept. 5, 2008). Eight 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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Number of Students Applying for Federal Financial Aid Goes Up Almost 20%
12 August 08 04:21 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

While college enrollment is only expected to grow by 300,000 students this year, some 1.3 million additional college students have already applied for federal financial aid — an increase of 17 percent, according to an article in U.S. News World Report Read More...

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Montana Senator: Give Tax Break to Companies That Pay Off Employees’ Student Loans
08 August 08 05:59 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As an incentive for Montana students to remain in state, Roy Brown, a Montana state senator and candidate for governor, announced he would like to reward companies that repay their employees’ student loans with a tax break. Read More...

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Governor Asks Pension Board, State’s Colleges to Help Keep Massachusetts Student Loan Provider Afloat
07 August 08 01:46 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A week after the cash-strapped Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority announced that its 40,000 borrowers would have to find a new private student loan provider , Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked the Massachusetts pension fund to invest Read More...

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Governor Launches Website to Help Massachusetts Families Find Student Loans
07 August 08 04:32 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has set up a financial assistance website to help the 40,000 families who were previously served by the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority to find a new student loan provider for the 2008–09 academic year, following Read More...

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Wachovia Suspends Its Undergraduate Private Student Loan Program
06 August 08 05:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

After posting an $8.9 billion second-quarter loss in July, Wachovia Corp. announced on Tuesday that, effective August 5, it would stop accepting applications for undergraduate private student loans. Read More...

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NextStudent to Be Spotlighted at Largest Virtual College Fair
10 July 08 09:06 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Don Fenstermaker, the founder and CEO of NextStudent, will join noted names Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, and Kim Clark, senior writer for U.S. World & News Report, as one of only a few financial aid experts to give a live streaming video keynote presentation on college financing at today’s CollegeWeekLive event. Read More...

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Davidson College Sees Positive Results After Eliminating Student Loans
09 July 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Princeton was the first university to completely eliminate student loans from its financial aid packages in 2001, and Harvard’s announcement to follow in Princeton’s footsteps this fall garnered national media attention as no-loan financial aid policies began to turn up across the Ivy League and at other elite schools nationwide. But it’s small, selective, liberal arts Davidson College in North Carolina that’s already seeing results after getting a head start over the rest of the Ivies by doing away with student loans last year. 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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Sen. Hillary Clinton Unveils Plan to Tackle the Student Loan Crisis
29 April 08 10:56 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced the details of a sweeping plan to help ensure students have continued access to federal student loans amid a flurry of private lenders leaving the federal student loan program. “Hundreds of thousands of students Read More...

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Arkansas Offers State Student Loan Agency $80M Line of Credit
24 April 08 04:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The Arkansas state student loan authority has been tentatively approved for an $80 million loan after an announcement that it may not be able to continue issuing student loans without financial assistance. The state board of finance, the investment arm Read More...

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Tufts University to Help Graduates in Public-Service Repay Student Loans
24 April 08 10:31 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Under a new student loan repayment program offered by Tufts University , graduates and undergraduates from the school who pursue jobs in public service could have a portion of their student loans forgiven. Tufts alumni from any graduating class who choose Read More...

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Bank of America Backs Out of Private Student Loan Business
19 April 08 02:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

On April 17, Bank of America Corp. notified student-loan packager First Marblehead Corp. that it would no longer offer private student loans, focusing instead on providing federal student loans. Bank of America’s announcement comes amid increasing unsteadiness Read More...

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