ITT Educational Services, Inc. (NYSE: ESI – News), a leading provider of technology-oriented postsecondary degree programs, announced today that it has arranged for Bank of America, Chase Education Finance and Citibank, The Student Loan Corporation to provide federal and private education loans to qualified ITT Technical Institute students and their parents for the remainder of [...]

Good news for student loan borrowers across the nation — Congress has repealed the “Single Holder Rule”, allowing any student loan borrower to consolidate their student loans with American Education Services (AES). Under the Single Holder Rule, borrowers whose federal student loans were held by one lender were only able to consolidate their loans with [...]

Firstmark Services, a leading national servicer of private student loans, announced that it has achieved two milestones: $1 billion in total student loan assets managed and 250,000 student loan accounts serviced for its clients.
Firstmark, based in Woodbury, Minn., works with lenders to provide private loan services to their borrowers and colleges. The company offers loan [...]

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Johns Hopkins University has agreed to pay $1.125 million to settle a probe of its student loan practices, the New York attorney general said Thursday.
The settlement is the latest in a nationwide probe of conflicts of interest in the $85 billion student loan industry. Twenty-six schools and seven lenders, including Sallie Mae , JPMorgan Chase [...]

OneSimpleLoan® http://www.OneSimpleLoan.com, a student loan finance and consulting firm specializing in student loan consolidation, today announced that President & CEO Paul J. Simino is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2007 Award in the Florida region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs [...]

University of Wisconsin campuses would be barred from accepting payments from student loan companies in exchange for recommending them to borrowers under a proposal that will be considered for approval this week.
The policy aims to reassure the UW System’s students, who took out a record $592.7 million in loans last year, that campus administrators are [...]

Columbia University will pay $1.1 million into an education fund and a national financial aid organization will crack down on gifts from lenders as part of state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s effort to reform the student loan industry, Cuomo said Thursday.
Under the agreement, both Columbia and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators will [...]

Chattanooga State Technical College dental hygiene student, Lina E. Mills, has been awarded a scholarship from the Thomas P. Hinman Dental Society. The award was presented at a luncheon held at the 95th Hinman Dental Meeting in Atlanta.
This year the Society provided scholarships and gifts totaling more than $250,000 to 89 dental, dental hygiene, laboratory [...]

As college graduation season comes to a close, the newly anointed degree holders finally have to face a new reality — life with hefty education debt.
There is plenty to be done before the debt starts to come due — in about six months for most — but graduates will need to act fast and think [...]