Tuesday, 6 March 2012

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A Looming Pell Shortfall and Simplification of Regulations Spotlighted at NASFAA's First Legislative Symposium

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

At NASFAA's 2012 Legislative Symposium Monday in the Washington, DC area, government officials highlighted the lack of any solid plan or proposal to maintain the Pell Grant program in the 2014 fiscal...

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Problem With a Private Student Loan? Federal Agency Will Take Your Complaint

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

March 5, 2012 - In an article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's effort to begin collecting complaints regarding private student loans, the Chronicle of Higher Education references the...

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03-05: FY 2009 3-Year Draft Cohort Default Rates Distributed March 5, 2012

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

On the morning of Monday, March 5, 2012, the Department of Education (ED) distributed the FY 2009 Draft Cohort Default Rate notification packages to all eligible domestic and foreign schools. In this...

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Completing High School

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

NASFAA has seen a recent uptick in inquiries from members asking for determinations of when students are considered to have completed high school and received diplomas, general educational...

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The Rise and Fall of the Graduation Rate

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"A college's graduation rate is such a basic consumer fact for would-be students these days that it's difficult to imagine that the federal government didn't even collect the information as recently...

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For-Profit Colleges Compute Their Own Graduation Rates

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"For-profit colleges are some of the biggest critics of the federal graduation rate, arguing that it gives an inaccurate image of their institutions," Goldie Blumenstyk writes for the Chronicle of...

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NASFAA Urges Action on Student Health Insurance Coverage Regulations

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

NASFAA joined the American Council on Education (ACE) and six other associations to urge the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to immediately issue the final version of student health...

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It's FAFSA Break!

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Rest and enjoyment, has gone out the window and, in its stead, thanks to the Feds, spring break might as well be dubbed 'FAFSA Break,'" Monica Medina writes in the Huffington Post Parents blog. "For...

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Even Senior Citizens Have Student Debt

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"It's not just young people who are saddled with student debt," Suzy Khimm writes in the Washington Post WonkBlog. "A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that one-third of all...

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To Raise Completion Rates, States Dig Deeper for Data

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system allows students to apply for enrollment until the Friday before classes began," Eric Kelderman writes for the Chronicle of Higher Education's...

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