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State Student Aid, Before the Fall
You're familiar with the pattern by now: Groups release reports with data and analysis about various aspects of higher education...
Feeling Like a Fait Accompli
As House Democrats embrace Obama loan proposal, many at financial aid meeting (often grudgingly) see shift to government-based lending as inevitable, though lenders vow continued fight.
Lenders' Last-Ditch Gambit
For all their talk about how damaging and risky the Obama administration's student loan proposal could be for students and...
In Sickness and in Health
Provosts and chief financial officers may have different jobs, but they have to work together like a married couple, presenters at NACUBO say.
Simplification Is ... Complicated
Gathering of policy makers and researchers reveals widespread agreement that financial aid system should be streamlined -- but offers little confidence that it will be.
Opinion
Counterpoint: Why We Choose Direct Lending
In response to an essay last week, four financial aid directors explain their reasons for supporting President Obama's student loan proposal.
Opinion
Why I'm Sticking With FFELP
President Obama’s proposal to end the Federal Family Education Loan Program and make all federal student loans through the Direct...
Opinion
To Lend or Not to Lend?
The "no loans" policies adopted by wealthy colleges may have fostered the dangerous belief that borrowing for college is somehow wrong, writes Brian Rosenberg.