State Attorney General Bill McCollum sent a questionnaire to all Florida public colleges and universities.
The questionnaire asks if preferred lenders have offered them any incentives and to disclose their relationships with lenders. The attorney general says these types of practices keep schools from objectively providing students with fair choices and some students agree.
“It puts them […]
Wading into a roaring national controversy, Attorney General Martha Coakley is investigating whether Massachusetts colleges have improper relationships with loan companies, her office said yesterday.
“Every prospective student deserves a fair chance of financing a college education,” she said in a statement.
Several other attorneys general, most notably Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, as well as […]
The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh is switching to a new Web site that lists the top financial institutions that have loaned students money in the past after severing its relationship with a company as a “preferred lender,” college officials said.
Last month, UWO scrapped its preferred lender list for students seeking financial aid following local and national […]
Though much news recently has focused on the problems in selecting a student-loan provider — thanks to allegations that some lenders and financial-aid offices have been in cahoots — for many students graduating this spring, the larger issue is how to pay back all that debt.
It’s no small matter. The median debt load for graduates […]
Investigations by U.S. lawmakers into the student loan industry expanded as Reps George Miller, D-Calif., and chairman of the House education committee, sent a letter to the inspector general of the Education Department asking for a review of the department’s policies against conflicts of interest and the financial disclosure forms of employees overseeing the federal […]
The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s education committee said on Thursday he has written to the heads of two major student lenders over concerns about loan collection tactics, opening a new line of inquiry in a fast-expanding scandal in the student loan business.
“I am concerned that several private lenders may be engaging in harsh and […]
ScholarshipPoints.com, a free service from the Student Loan Network, has announced its first quarter scholarship winners. Chris Wendorf, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, received the first-place scholarship of $1000; Jonald Allan Gonzalez, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, received the second-place $500 scholarship; and Helen Hawkey, University of Pittsburgh, took the third-place $250 scholarship. All three […]
New York state is offering colleges settlements in its investigation into student loan kickbacks if the schools promise to follow a code of conduct, according to published reports.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent settlement agreements to colleges around the country, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday. If the colleges didn’t sign, Cuomo threatened to serve […]
HARRISBURG - The state’s student loan agency, already the focus of negative publicity for its travel expenses, has a new critic.
The governor.
“It has to have a total housecleaning,” Gov. Rendell said of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. “When the cost of college is more and more challenging to Pennsylvanians and their families, we can’t […]
Learn.com®, the leader in on-demand workforce development and productivity, announced today that American Student Assistance (ASA), the nation’s original student loan guarantor, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, has selected the LearnCenter® talent management suite to develop, deliver, and track interactive on-demand training and development for employees of all levels throughout their organization.
“After reviewing the talent management […]
Everyone knows that getting an education is expensive. Student loans are available to most students for tuition, but what about the other expenses? You need books and supplies, a lap top as well as funds for room and board. To make matters even more challenging; should you decide to take on a full load of […]
A CREATIVE architecture scholarship worth £1,500 will be up for grabs at the Flintshire and District Eisteddfod in Mold, in August.
The event’s visual arts officer, Robyn Toms, said: ‘The Eisteddfod is keen to further an everyday art form that is relevant to each and everyone of us - architecture.
‘One of the architecture scholarship’s aims is […]