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More Schools Offering Direct Student Loans
13 March 09 02:25 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The direct student loan program — which President Obama wants to establish as the sole provider of federal student loans by 2010 — is swiftly gaining ground on the Federal Family Education Loan Program. Read More...

Filed under: Barry Feierstein, college, college financial aid, college loans, Department of Education, Direct Loan Program, direct student loan program, Federal Family Education Loan Program, federal student loans, FFEL program, financial aid, NextStudent, originator of federal student loans, paying for college, poor customer service, President Obama, private student loan lenders, private third party lenders, Sallie Mae, Sandra Block, student loan default, student loan industry, student loans, surge in loan volume, tuition, USA Today

Auditors Accuse Bank of Illegally Getting Student Loans
09 January 09 02:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A recently completed audit of Fifth Third Bank — the 20th largest lender of federal student loans in the country according to college financial aid site FinAid — found that the bank violated federal law by illegally paying three companies for loan applications Read More...

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Student Loan Providers Get More Help From the Government
13 November 08 03:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a move intended to avoid a shortfall in student loans next year, Congress has expanded the government program to buy federally guaranteed student loans from private lenders. Under the updated loan-purchase plan, the Education Department can now buy Read More...

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Changes to Student Loan Repayment Programs Not Enough, Advocates Say
30 October 08 11:34 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Despite 1,500 individuals and a dozen national organizations pushing for further changes to legislative provisions that help low-income college students repay their student loans, the Education Department recently issued the provisions’ final regulations Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college financial aid, college loans, Department of Education, double-counting penalty, Education Department, financial aid, income-based repayment plan, low income student borrowers, NextStudent, paying for college, Robert Shireman, Samara Yudof, Student Loan Repayment, student loans, The Project on Student Debt, tuition

FBI Investigates California College That Overpaid Financial Aid to Some Students, Underpaid Others
13 October 08 06:32 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

A California community college is being investigated by the FBI and the Department of Education for overpaying students more than $327,000 in financial aid during the 2005–06 school year, reports the Contra Costa Times (“ Berkeley City College Overpaid Read More...

Filed under: Berkeley City College, college loans, community college, Contra Costa Times, Department of Education, FBI, financial aid, financial aid directors, NextStudent, Pell Grant recipients, Pell Grants, Robert Vergas, student loans

Technical College May Lose Ability to Offer Federal Financial Aid For Violating Newly-Relaxed Aid Rule
20 August 08 01:05 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Star Technical Institute , a technical college in New Jersey, may not be able to offer federal financial aid to students at two of its seven campuses for allegedly violating a federal law that requires colleges to obtain 10 percent or more of their revenues Read More...

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New Law May Simplify College Financial Aid Form
05 August 08 05:55 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students and parents could spend less time filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid under a new provision of The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 , according to an article in The Austin American-Statesman , (“ New Law to Trim College 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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Unfinished Business: Congress May Break Before Higher-Ed Bills Reviewed
03 July 08 04:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

While Congress is heading home for its annual Fourth of July recess, there are still many higher-education bills and pieces of legislation that need to be addressed before they break, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Higher- Read More...

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In Fight to Lower Tuition, Small Universities May Be Harmed
25 June 08 03:43 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some small U.S. colleges and universities are concerned that they may be the target of a new bill that would force schools with multi -billion dollar endowments, like Harvard , to reduce their tuition costs, and place other high-tuition institutions without Read More...

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Word to the Wise on New Loan Forgiveness Programs: You May Not Qualify
10 June 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

College students looking to relieve their federal student loan debt “will be sorely disappointed” with the government’s new loan forgiveness programs that will begin in 2009, according to an article in U.S. News & World Report (“ The Problem with Read More...

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Availability of Federal Perkins Student Loans Is Dwindling
13 April 08 10:28 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A growing shortage of funds in the federal Perkins student loan program could affect as many as 50,000 students in the upcoming academic year, according to a recent article in U.S. News & World Report . Students who would have been eligible to receive Read More...

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Pell Grant Gets Welcome Boost in 2007-2008 Budget Plans
06 February 07 10:14 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In previous blogs, I addressed that college education is becoming more and more unobtainable for low-income students. Many are opting out of the system, choosing to attend community colleges or not to attend at all, since the debt load required for attendance Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, Department of Education, financial aid, higher education, Next Student, NextStudent, Pell Grant, student loan consolidation, student loans, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program

Education and the Budget Proposal for FY08
05 February 07 09:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Good news for the Department of Education, as it looks like the White House is set to increase the Pell Grant even more than the $260 proposed by the Democrat’s “Joint Funding Resolution” that I reported on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. According to a briefing Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, Department of Education, financial aid, Next Student, NextStudent, Pell Grants, student loan consolidation, student loans

Grant Process Closed on Strengthening Institutions Program
31 January 07 09:55 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Grants are an important source of funding for any institution and organization in need of money. Not only do grants help students defray the cost of attendance, they also help colleges keep their tuition costs in check because awarded funds can help strengthen Read More...

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