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Download full textOffice of Federal Student Aid (ED), Washington, DC. – 2002
This guide explains available repayment options for federal student loans so that students can repay their debts successfully. It also tells the steps students should take so that they will not get behind in payments or go into default. It is emphasized that federal student loans are real loans, just like car loans or mortgages, that must be…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Federal Aid, Higher Education, Loan Default
Bovbjerg, Barbara D. – 2000
This report presents data on default rates within two major federal student loan programs, the Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP) and the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). Data from the National Student Loan Data System for 1997 and 1998 indicate that, overall, direct and guaranteed student loan programs had similar default rates--6.6…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Higher Education, Loan Default
Fossey, Richard, Ed.; Bateman, Mark, Ed. – 1998
The 10 chapters of this book on the effects of the federal student loan program focus on five major issues: first, that expanding access to postsecondary education is in the national interest; second, the inconsistency in student loan policy; third, increasing federal regulation of higher education; fourth, the fact that rising costs are making…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Higher Education, Loan Default, Public Policy
Dervarics, Charles – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1997
A recent Education Department report reveals the nation's student loan default rate was the lowest ever in 1994, at less than half the rate of 1990. New enforcement power, improved collections, and an improving economy are credited with the change. However, high default rates threaten the right of over 300 colleges and universities to participate…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Loan Default, Loan Repayment
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
This report looks at information on federally guaranteed student loans and loan defaults for students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and how the application of federal default rate thresholds to HBCUs beginning in July 1994 might affect their participation in federal student aid programs. The July 1994 thresholds…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Federal Programs
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Default Management Div. – 1997
This guide, which is sent to postsecondary schools, provides them with draft cohort default rates for student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The guide is intended to assist schools in understanding how a cohort default rate is calculated, reviewing loan record…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Data Collection, Eligibility, Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1990
Provisions in the Higher Education Amendments of 1986 (Public Law 99-498), which require guaranty agencies and lenders to report information on Stafford student loan program borrowers to credit bureaus, are examined. The purpose of these provisions is to promote greater borrower responsibility and repayment of student loans. The report addresses…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Ashby, Cornelia M. – 2002
Certain state or not-for-profit agencies guarantee payment to banks and other lending institutions if students fail to repay loans obtained through the Federal Family Education Loan Program. The 1998 amendments to the Higher Education Act authorize the Secretary of Education to enter into voluntary flexible agreements (VFAs) with individual…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Higher Education
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Default Management Div. – 2000
This publication is intended to help postsecondary schools understand draft cohort default rate data. It explains how the Department of Education calculates cohort default rates, the effect of cohort default rates, and how to read cohort default rate loan record detail reports. Also, it reviews electronic reports available from the Department of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants, Higher Education
Peer reviewedChuta, E. J. – Higher Education, 1992
This article describes the operation of the student loan program in Nigeria, including its past problems and current attempts of the Nigerian Students Loans Board to improve efficiency of loan collection. It proposes the establishment of a new Education Bank to finance student loans and other forms of investment in higher education. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Finance, Finance Reform, Foreign Countries
Greiner, Keith – 1995
This state-mandated study examined the needs of Iowa chiropractic students and the Iowa demand for chiropractic health care in order to determine the feasibility of establishing a chiropractic forgivable loan program. The project used financial aid data and repayment rate data to evaluate the need for financial aid for chiropractic students;…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Demands, Labor Needs, Loan Default
California Student Aid Commission, Sacramento. – 1993
This brief pamphlet is a financial planning and repayment guide designed to help college students make informed decisions about participating in Federal Family Educational Loan Programs as administered in California through the California Student Aid Commission. Following an introduction the guide begins by suggesting that students map out a…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Federal Programs, Financial Aid Applicants, Higher Education
Frazier, Franklin – 1990
This statement of the Director of Education and Employment Issues of the General Accounting Office's Human Resources Division discusses how the Stafford Student Loan program works, the growth in loans guaranteed and defaulted, and the concerns surrounding the financial problems being experienced by the Higher Education Assistance Foundation…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Federal Programs, Financial Problems, Higher Education
Department of Education, Washington, DC. Default Management Div. – 1998
This guide provides information to help postsecondary schools and guaranty agencies (GAs) understand how a cohort default rate is calculated, review backup data, submit challenges to GAs and/or Direct Loan Servicing Centers (DLSC), and understand the response from the GA and/or DLSC. A cohort default rate includes Federal Family Education Loan…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Compliance (Legal), Databases, Financial Problems
Hembra, Richard L. – 1999
This report examines how the Department of Education calculates the default rate for two federal student loan programs--the Federal Family Education Loan program (FFELP) and the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (FDLP). The report focuses on three questions regarding these programs: (1) whether there has been an increase in the number of…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Higher Education, Loan Default
