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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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Wesleyan University Student-Pioneered Endowment First of Its Kind
05 May 08 10:25 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The student government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, has established an endowment that it hopes will eventually eliminate the $270 activity fee required of all students, writes Charles Proctor of The Hartford Courant (“ Wesleyan Students Read More...

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Bush Urges Congress to Act Quickly on Student Lending Law
02 May 08 04:06 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

“A slowdown in the economy shouldn't mean a downturn in educational opportunities,” said President Bush in his most recent radio address. “Members of Congress now have a chance to preserve this opportunity, and they should take it.” His remarks were the Read More...

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Pennsylvania Student Loan Agency to Cut Grant Aid, Offer Employee Buyouts
30 April 08 05:06 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Pennsylvania’s student-loan agency will cut college grant amounts for the 2008–09 academic year by up to $750 and will offer voluntary buyouts to some of its nonunion employees in an effort to keep the company afloat. The Pennsylvania Higher Education 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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The New Financial Aid Landscape
26 April 08 12:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Even as the media has been drawn in recent months to the looming student loan availability crisis, many of the country’s top colleges and universities have been revamping their financial aid programs to better assist parents and students in covering their college costs. 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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Financial Aid Administrators Oppose New Preferred-Lender List Rule
23 April 08 06:01 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has asked the Department of Education to reconsider its interpretation of a new rule that requires colleges to have at least three student loan lenders that are not affiliated with each Read More...

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Kennedy to Colleges: Have Back-Up Plan for Students
21 April 08 05:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a letter sent to the American Council on Education on April 15, Sen. Edward Kennedy , D-Mass., the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, urged colleges to sign up for the Department of Education’s Federal Direct Loan Program as a preventive measure Read More...

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