Loan programs

National advocacy group asks U.S. trade panel to examine Loan to Learn's advertising practices .

Education Department’s inspector general says Nelnet inappropriately “recycled” loans at 9.5% interest rate.

It says something about the climate for financial aid and student loans these days that in many of his recent speeches, A. Dallas Martin has taken to reading his audience -- usually financial aid officers, lenders and others -- the ethics statement promulgated by his group, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Decline in key program for poor is among worrisome aid trends in annual survey on college costs, which again outpace inflation.

Student loan company cancels Caribbean conference to which it had invited financial aid officers and guests, all expenses paid.

A partisan pollster said that young voters think Democrats can better confront the college affordability crunch.

With Democratic takeover in Congress, those in the student loan industry might have reason for concern. 

At loan industry meeting, president of upstart lender confronts head of financial aid officials' group on gifts policy at its conference.

Incoming chair of House education committee addresses -- quite generally -- higher ed issues for the year ahead.

Study's finding that 20 percent of students with alternative loans do not borrow from federal government raises troubling questions.