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Download full textBlanchette, Cornelia M. – 1995
This report examines the effectiveness of recent federal government efforts through amendments to the Higher Education Act (1993) to reduce student loan defaults. Key measures to curb defaults had been to make schools with high student loan default rates ineligible for federal student loan programs. However, many institutions have challenged…
Descriptors: Colleges, Compliance (Legal), Educational Legislation, Eligibility
Blanchette, Cornelia M. – 1996
Testimony of the associate director of the Department of Education's Health Education and Human Services Division, Education and Employment Issues, addresses issues concerned with Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 as amended in 1992. Title IV provides grants, loans, and work-study supports to students pursuing post-secondary education…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation
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
Ross, Laurent; And Others – 1990
The report, based on data from the first National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (1986), describes the combinations of student aid awards or student aid "packages" received by federally-aided students to finance their educations in 1986-87. The narrative discussion presents the results in a question-and-answer format, including such…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, National Surveys, Postsecondary Education
Blanchette, Cornelia M. – 1995
This report presents the testimony of the Associate Director of Education and Employment Issues of the Health, Education, and Human Services Division of the General Accounting Office (GAO) concerning the participation of postsecondary institutions in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), which makes direct student loans to students.…
Descriptors: Colleges, Federal Programs, Formative Evaluation, Government School Relationship
Palmer, Stacy E.; Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
Colleges and universities will be held directly responsible for loan repayments by their former students. Most postsecondary institutions with default rates of more than 20% are for-profit trade schools, community colleges, or historically Black colleges. (MLW)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Community Colleges, Federal Aid, Federal Government
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1992
As part of a larger program to identify and analyze federal programs at high risk for waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement, this publication presents an evaluation of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), formerly the Guaranteed Student Loan Program. The analysis argues that the program has not been successful in protecting the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Colleges, Federal Programs, Fraud
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1987
A study to examine the repayment of Guaranteed Student Loans is described. It found that most of the institutions with more than 60 percent of their student loans in default are proprietary schools. The study is aimed at helping state and federal policymakers make decisions on student-aid programs. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Higher Education
Scherschel, Patricia M. – 1998
This report on student indebtedness is based primarily on a current study which is measuring the average Stafford loan balance facing students, as well as indicators of payment stress. The study is based on data on about 325,000 loans from the USA Group's entire loan servicing portfolio, which includes both subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Graduate Study, Loan Default, Loan Repayment
Phibbs, Philip M. – AGB Reports, 1990
Creating separate student-aid programs for the proprietary and nonprofit sectors of higher education will be one of the most bitterly debated issues in the upcoming reauthorization of higher education law. A major point of contention is the matter of hugely disproportionate default rates among students in the different sectors. (MLW)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Government, Grants, Loan Repayment
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
A study was conducted on the number of legal immigrants that received student financial aid for higher education, the amount of aid they received, the states in which they lived, and the types of schools they attended. The study focused on Pell grants and Stafford loans and used data from Department of Education recipient files for academic year…
Descriptors: College Students, Geographic Distribution, Higher Education, Immigrants
Stowe, Peter – 1990
This report, based on the 1987 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, provides information on how different sources and types of student financial aid were combined to produce student aid awards or packages for 34,544 undergraduate students. First, aid awards are examined by the source of aid; second, by the type of aid; and third, by a…
Descriptors: Family Income, Federal Programs, Grants, Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. – 1990
The congressional hearing report scrutinized the role of banks, guarantee agencies, student loan secondary markets, and loan servicers in the operation of federal student aid programs. Program weaknesses which have contributed towards to abuse and fraudulent practices of federally backed student loans were identified. Witnesses included officials…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Federal Aid, Fraud, Higher Education
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
Information is presented on student default rates at 7,800 postsecondary schools. The report builds on previous data and offers a summary analysis of the approximately 1.2 million 1983 borrowers' rates of default by kinds of schools that borrowers and defaulters attended and length in years of their schools' academic programs. Information is…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Loan Repayment, National Surveys
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Policy Analysis. – 1988
Based on data provided by postsecondary institutions, the Higher Education Services Corporation, and units of the State Education Department, this report shows trends in financial aid from state (New York), federal, institutional, and private sources for academic years 1985-86, 1986-87, and 1987-88. The first section provides an overview of all…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Full Time Equivalency, Grants, Higher Education
