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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
The Supplemental Loans for Students (SLS) program provides market-rate loans to postsecondary students. This report presents information on SLS loan volume and default data for the 10 largest SLS lenders from nine guaranty agencies, for fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989. Data for both proprietary and nonproprietary schools and for both freshmen…
Descriptors: Banking, Federal Programs, Financial Services, Higher Education
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Researchers, economists, and campus administrators who have followed federal student aid programs worry that businesses have turned the Guaranteed Student Loan Program into a lucrative industry that doesn't always have the students' interest in mind, and a congressional study group is also concerned about aspects of the program. (MSE)
Descriptors: Banking, Costs, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. – 1990
This hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, addresses the implications of the anticipated failure of the Higher Education Assistance Foundation (HEAF), the largest guarantor of student loans. HEAF's difficulties have affected Sallie Mae (Student Loan Marketing Association), and have raised general questions about the…
Descriptors: Banking, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Hearings
National Commission on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1983
Proposals for the amendment or elimination of the in-school interest subsidy for the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program were evaluated. The proposals were assessed in terms of their effects on the administrative and operational aspects of the GSL program, the availability of loan capital, and their impact on borrowers' ability to meet their…
Descriptors: Banking, Capital, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Shay, Robert P. – 1982
Four aspects of the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) Program are compared with credit policies on other loans made by consumer installment lenders. The four aspects are: (1) the planning, screening, monitoring, collecting, and write-off policies on GSLs versus uninsured loans; (2) the importance of the Student Loan Marketing Association in providing…
Descriptors: Banking, Credit (Finance), Federal Programs, Financial Services
National Commission on Student Financial Assistance, Washington, DC. – 1983
The special allowance component of the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program was evaluated through research and hearings. Attention was directed to: the experiences of students and eligible lenders; the administrative costs of various types of eligible lenders; financial indicators that accurately reflect the costs of capital; and administrative…
Descriptors: Banking, Capital, Educational Finance, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedEglin, Joseph J. – Society, 1993
Reviews problems with the Stafford Student Loan Program (Federal Family Educational Loan Program), including high-risk borrowers, dishonest school officials, negligent lenders, and guaranty agencies. Critiques recent reform measures designed to simplify the program. Suggests alternative policies, particularly direct loans from the federal…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Problems, Banking, College Students
New York State Higher Education Services Corp., Albany. – 1981
Responses to a questionnaire circulated in March 1981 are summarized. Data were gathered from all states regarding the federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) and the state guarantee agencies on: guarantee agency organizational types; dates of GSL agreements with the Department of Education; states that guaranteed loans before GSL;…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Banking, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Burd, Stephen – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
The Clinton Administration's proposed overhaul of the guaranteed student loan program would pay banks the amount of unpaid federal student loans, making the government the sole insurer of the loans. Guarantee agencies feel this action would strip them of their primary tasks of reimbursing lenders for unpaid loans. The initiative is intended to…
Descriptors: Banking, Budgets, Federal Government, Federal Programs
New York State Higher Education Services Corp., Albany. – 1980
Responses to a questionnaire circulated to all state guarantee agencies for the federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) are reported. Information is reported, in charts and tables, on: dates the states signed GSL agreements with the Office of Education; states that guaranteed loans before GSL began in 1966; agency organizational types;…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Banking, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on the Budget. – 1986
In the seventh of a series of field hearings held in different regions of the country, the House Committee on the Budget met in Helena, Montana, and Worthington, Minnesota, on March 14, 1986, to hear comments from a broad range of witnesses on the 1987 federal budget. At the Helena meeting statements were made by Montana Governor Ted Schwinden, by…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Banking, Budgeting, Economic Factors
Cross, Cynthia Sahagian – 1979
A study of loan availability in Michigan through the federal Guaranteed Student Loan Program outlines the evolution of federal lending programs for college students and describes program characteristics, funds, costs, defaults, and funding systems. The situation for borrowers and lenders in the state and its regions is examined, including…
Descriptors: Banking, College Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
