College Isn’t So Unaffordable
Inside Higher Ed – July 12, 2012 – by Doug Lederman You know all those newspaper headlines and television talking heads saying that college is unaffordable? They’re flawed, a new report argues. Okay,...
View ArticleEducation Department Launches New Online Tool To Help Students Manage Loan Debt
ED.gov – July 11, 2012 Today, the U.S. Department of Education released a new interactive loan counseling tool to provide students with financial management basics, like information about their current...
View ArticleSallie Mae, CFPB to Back Student-Loan Changes at Senate Hearing
Bloomberg BusinessWeek – July 24, 2012 Borrowers struggling with private student-loan debt would benefit from more refinancing options, a U.S. consumer protection official will tell Congress today....
View ArticleAre College Kids Blowing Their Student-Loan Money on Clothes and Beer?
TIME – August 2, 2012 The student-loan-debt crisis is massive. Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student loans, and according to a July report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, $150...
View ArticleCollege Debt Hits Well-Off – Upper-Middle-Income Households See Biggest Jumps...
Wall Street Journal ~ August 9, 2012 ~ Ruth Simon and Rob Barry Rising college costs and a sagging economy are taking the biggest toll on a surprising group: upper-middle-income families. According to...
View ArticleStudent Debt Is Growing but Is Not a National Crisis, Speakers Say
The Chronicle of Higher Education – August 9, 2012 Warnings of an impending student-loan-debt bubble are sensationalized and overblown, said panelists at a national higher education conference here on...
View ArticleUniversity revenues slow as students spend less on college
The Strategic Sourceror – August 28, 2012 Sallie Mae recently released a survey of college students that revealed universities may see a decline in revenue from student tuition. Due to a struggling...
View ArticleStudent-Loan Debt Rises To $914 Billion In 2nd Quarter
Bloomberg – August 29, 2012 Debt from educational loans in the U.S. rose 1.1 percent to $914 billion in the second quarter, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Outstanding student debt...
View ArticleAid for Students and Veterans Gets a Spotlight at Democrats’ Convention
The Chronicle of Higher Education – September 5, 2012 On the first night of their national convention here, several Democrats highlighted the role that federal student aid and veterans’ education...
View ArticleBoom Times for Student Loan Debt Collection Industry
Inside Higher Ed – September 10, 2012 The debt collection industry is benefiting from the large numbers of people in default on their student loans, The New York Times reported. In the last fiscal...
View ArticleIn New Ad for Hispanic Voters, Romney Hits Obama on Soaring Tuition and...
The Chronicle of Higher Education – September 21, 2012 Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign released a Spanish-language ad on Friday that blames President Obama and Democrats for rising tuition and high...
View ArticleFirst Official Three-Year Student Loan Default Rates Published
U.S. Department of Education – September 28, 2012 The U.S. Department of Education today released official FY 2010 two-year and official FY 2009 three-year federal student loan cohort default rates....
View ArticleAPSCU Statement On Department Of Education Loan Default Rates
APSCU – September 28, 2012 Washington, D.C. – Former Congressman Steve Gunderson, the president and chief executive officer of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) today...
View ArticleStudent loans: Even military worries about rising debt
The Christian Science Monitor – October 21, 2012 The U.S. military voiced concern on Thursday over mounting student loan debt owed by American troops, saying loan companies appeared to be taking...
View ArticleAn Underused Lifeline
Inside Higher Ed – October 23, 2012 When her first student loan payments came due last year, Suzanne Sublette might have seemed an ideal candidate for a federal program to base her monthly bill on her...
View ArticleSticker Prices Go Up at Public 4-Year Colleges, but at a Slower Pace
The Chronicle of Higher Education – October 24, 2012 This year’s report from the College Board on college pricing opens with what passes for good news: The annual increase in average published tuition...
View ArticleWith Obama’s Win, Colleges Anticipate 4 More Years of Reform
The Chronicle of Higher Education – November 7, 2012 American voters re-elected Barack Obama as president on Tuesday, extending the White House stay of an administration that has focused on expanding...
View ArticleHow bad is it?
Inside Higher Ed – November 8, 2012 Just how bad has the student loan burden become? Rhetoric of crisis dominates the current popular discourse, while a few voices call for calm, noting that the...
View ArticleFederal Student Lending Swells
Wall Street Journal - November 28, 2012 The federal lending program designed to make college education available to everyone is creating a pile of debt so large it is fanning worries that it has become...
View ArticleNew Scholarship Helps Student-Veterans Who Say For-Profit Colleges Victimized...
The Chronicle of Higher Education – November 30, 2012 A nonprofit foundation has established a scholarship program with an unusually narrow purpose: helping student-veterans who say they were defrauded...
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