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Download full textKing, Tracey; Frishberg, Ivan – 2001
Students frequently experience "sticker shock" when at graduation they find their college debt is much larger than they planned or expected. If they do not understand loan repayment and loan costs, they may borrow more than they can afford and experience difficulty in paying their loans. This study explored debt from the students' perspective to…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Higher Education, Loan Repayment
Office of Inspector General (ED), Washington, DC. – 1998
During the 6-month period ending March 31, 1998, the Office of Inspector General assisted the Department of Education in ensuring that taxpayer-funded federal education programs and operations are implemented efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and accountability. In the executive summary, under "Goal 1: Programs and Operations…
Descriptors: Accountability, Audits (Verification), Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Accounting and Information Management Div. – 2000
This checklist reflects the requirements of the revised Direct Loan System of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program to assist agencies in implementing and monitoring their direct loan system and to help managers and auditors review their direct loan systems to determine if they comply with the Federal Financial Management Improvement…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Government Role, Higher Education, Loan Repayment
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 2003
This participant workbook instructs financial aid personnel in the use of the EDExpress System as it relates to direct student loans. The first session discusses common origination and disbursement of direct loans. The second session considers new loans, and session 3 covers disbursements. Session 4 discusses exporting and importing data, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Student Financial Aid Officers, Student Loan Programs
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This participant guide is an update to basic training in the Direct Loan (DL) portion of the EDExpress system designed for financial aid professionals who have already participated in the basic training. The first session considers new aspects of DL processing, focusing on DL process changes and EDExpress DL changes. Session 2 contains three…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Student Financial Aid Officers, Student Loan Programs
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This participant guide instructs college financial aid personnel in the use of the EDExpress system as it relates to direct student loans. The first chapter contains a welcome and introduction to the training sessions, and the second session contains an overview of the six-step data process, a discussion of key players in direct loans (DL), a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Student Financial Aid Officers, Student Loan Programs
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Student Financial Assistance. – 2000
This 6-page pamphlet shares what the Student Financial Assistance (SFA) Office of the Ombudsman has learned from cases it has handled. An initial section offers information on the case management process, noting that the ombudsman process depends on the case's complexity and that many are revolved quickly. Next, it examines customer-reported case…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Higher Education, Loan Repayment, Ombudsmen
Willemssen, Joel C. – 1998
This testimony discusses the risks faced by the U.S. Department of Education due to the year 2000 (Y2K) computing crisis, focusing on student financial aid systems, the actions the Department has taken in recent months to address these risks, and the key issues the Department must deal with if its computer systems are to be ready for the century…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computers, Contingency Management, Higher Education
Student Financial Aid in the UW System: 1996-97 Update. Occasional Research Brief, Volume 98, No. 1.
Wisconsin Univ. System, Madison. – 1998
Financial aid provided to students in the University of Wisconsin (UW) system is described. In 1996-1997, 75,666 UW system undergraduate and graduate students received $404.9 million in a combination of need based and non-need based financial aid. This represented an increase of 1,319 students and $16.2 million above 1995-1996 levels. Over half of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Grants, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid
US General Accounting Office, 2004
This statement focuses on issues related to consolidation loans and their cost implications for taxpayers and borrowers. Consolidation loans, available under the Department of Education?s (Education's) two major student loan programs?the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program (FDLP)?help borrowers…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Federal Programs, Administration
Ashby, Cornelia M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2004
This study investigated: (1) differences between the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) consolidation loans and borrowers; (2) the extent to which borrowers with student loans under one program obtain consolidation loans under the other; and (3) how FFELP and FDLP borrower and loan…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, Federal Programs, Costs
Anderson, Jack F.; And Others – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1973
This study attempts to discover what 664 prospective students who were accepted for admission, but who did not enroll in the fall of 1971, decided to do instead and what influenced their decisions. (Author)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, College Students, Financial Problems
Peer reviewedRenner, Richard R. – Higher Education, 1974
Credit facilities for students in Latin America universities have grown rapidly in recent years. The implications of this development are critically examined with particular attention to the inhibiting influence of loan-based education on the freedom of the student as an individual. (Editor)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Problems, Higher Education, International Education
Johnstone, D. Bruce – College Board Review, 1973
The author examines some criterion that will be used in the future to determine financial need. (PG)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Needs, Financial Support, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHartline, Jessie C. – College and University, 1972
Descriptors: Financial Needs, Financial Support, Higher Education, Scholarships
