In its first hundred days, the Obama administration demonstrated a strong commitment to expanding access to higher education. The economic stimulus package, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), increased funding for the Pell Grant program and over the next two years, the maximum award will grow to $5,550 in 2010-2011--the…

Beginning your college education means you'll be exploring a new place, making new friends, learning new things and setting your own priorities. You are going to face a lot of big changes in a short time. That's exciting--and challenging. The more prepared you are for college when you get there, the more ready you'll be to address these new…

This project studied four career college and school campuses in Texas that had higher than average graduation rates and lower than average student loan default rates to determine what they did to achieve these positive outcomes. The visits to the campuses found that a conscious, concerted effort to integrate students into the academic and social…

This report highlights the findings of case study visits to 15 postsecondary institutions participating, or planning to participate in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Student Loan Program. Schools were asked to describe the implementation and administration processes of the program, to describe the school's workload under the Direct Loan…

An independent audit was done of the principal financial statements of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program of the Department of Education for the year ending September 30, 1994. In planning and performing the review the auditors considered the internal control structure of the program in order to determine auditing procedures. The…

This guide is intended for students leaving school and therefore needing to plan for repayment of loans received through the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The guide offers students guidelines for choosing a repayment plan, information about rights and responsibilities as a borrower under both subsidized and unsubsidized direct loan…

This directory lists changes to the list of the low-income schools at which teachers with loans from the Federal Perkins Loan and national Direct Student Loan programs can have a portion of their loans canceled for each year of teaching service. A list of state agency contact persons precedes the main body of the directory. Listings are…

A study was done to determine the extent of and reasons for the Department of Education's delayed receipt of origination fees for Stafford Student Loans, and actions needed to facilitate the prompt receipt of the fees. The fees help offset the federal governments' multibillion-dollar cost of subsidizing the Stafford Student Loan Programs. There…

Discusses the collection department established at Arizona State University three years ago as a test unit for collection of delinquent National Defense Loans. (Author/PG)

This paper focuses on a system of recurrent education in which individuals would have the opportunities to undertake educational and training activities in alternation with periods of work. Underlying the paper is the assumption that the financing approach to such a system would have to encompass most forms of postcompulsory education and…

Under the present system of financing higher education, only slightly more than 25 per cent of American families can meet the cost of tuition, even when it is as low as $200 a year. In view of this fact, the author proposes a revolving federal loan fund to cover the operating costs for public and private institutions of higher education. Students…

Approximately 50% of higher education support comes from taxes; 40% from tuition and fees; 8% from endowments and gifts; and 2% from business. Presented here is a proposal for a revolving federal fund to cover operating costs for public and private institutions of higher education. An agency (the Higher Education Finance Corporation) would be set…

This document comments on the major points of the June 1973 Carnegie Commission Report "Higher Education: Who Benefits? Who Pays". It is suggested that an outstanding characteristic of the report is that it is full of contradictions. Many of its observations, generalized recommendations, and stated goals, are such as would command a general…

The quality of American higher education is being seriously threatened by economic pressures that are unlikely to be relieved in the near future. As undesirable as it may be, it appears that more and more of the costs of education will have to be borne by the college and university students. The Yale University Tuition Postponement Option Plan was…

The federal government provides student loans for college and graduate school in two ways: by: (1) guaranteeing bank loans; and (2) by lending directly to students. Approximately three-quarters of federal student loans are guaranteed and one-quarter are direct. In the guaranteed loan program, a 40-year-old system, banks lend students money and…