…increase in student loans has been in the private loan sector: loans not originated through federal programs whose (sometimes subsidized) interest rates and repayment schedules are strictly regulated. Private student…
…to all in need; 3) The private provision of loans to students should end and the Federal Government should become the provider of student loans. The American higher education establishment…
…“How can the federal government help?” more than 90 percent of institutions said they wanted the government to help make student loans easier to obtain and repay via guarantees and…
…only $21,000 of their loans’ principal, and the financial stress had led to a divorce (student loans can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, so they can’t be made to go away,…
…economic times, they should be devising ways to help their students do more than just keep their loans. Colleges and universities should also commit to bailing out their students’ educations—to…
…students is ignored. So is the fact that at least three independent surveys of student use of time (by UCLA, the National Survey of Student Engagement and the U.S. Bureau…
…for capital projects as well as increases in student cash grants and loans as well as longer grace periods for repayment. The rub seems to lie in demonstrating that any…
…over 35% of students rely on student loans, and the number is growing.) Not surprisingly, the last twenty years have seen tuition costs rise at over three times the rate…
…force them into the full-time work force or into caring for relatives. While some claim this is an enormous problem, the vast amount of student loans available has reduced the…
…scholarly research that her six years at Trinity, Dublin, had trained her to do. Speaking of which, there are the $46,000 in student loans Tracy racked up while at Trinity,…
“Parents asking, ‘Where’s the trash?’ were promptly corrected by event staff and volunteers, who proudly provided composting crash courses to the thousands of students and family members.” The “event”—described in…
…closed. Many of those who never succeeded were left with huge student loans. Indeed, these days, it is utterly routine for law students to graduate with loans well in excess…
…financial aid to students, a fatal blow to the students, many of whom had been surviving on federal loans and grants, and to New College itself, which had almost no…
…“good sense” and urges as a longer term solution the migration of a much larger percentage of student loans into direct government loans. (Currently 22 percent of the federal loans…
…global audience, and, in this case, student body. Columbia just announced an overhaul of its financial aid policies, of considerable benefit to poor and middle class-students. They did not appear…
…First Marblehead contain a lot of loans of doubtful value. These aren’t the loans that are guaranteed by the Federal government’s Title IV Student Loan program. When students have borrowed…
…California Institute of Technology declared revisions for the benefit of lower and middle-income students. On Monday, the University of Pennsylvania announced the end of student loans for students from families…
…issuing more student loans. As with the housing market, the potential danger is that if investors grow wary of student loan debt, the banks will refrain from issuing new loans….
…to students, and thereby escape the necessity of providing a product that the consumers (students) can afford. Terms such as “accountability” and “transparency” are critically important with respect to public…
…to college students will now be spent to increase the size of Pell Grants, cut the interest rates students pay on federally subsidized loans, and – in principle – reduce…
…drive up the costs borne by the students, in the form of higher fees and interest rates than the students could have obtained elsewhere. This soak-the-student approach, however, is sometimes…
…of the case Those Scandlous Student Loans). This week, George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced a bill to reduce federal subsidies of private loan providers…
…don’t have the time or interest to learn the mechanics of Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, Perkins loans, FFEL consolidation loans, and so on. Neither do most college and…