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New Federal Repayment Option May Help College Graduates Who Face First Student Loan Payments this Month
The Project on Student Debt - November 19, 2009This month, students who graduated from college in May are facing their first monthly student loan payments. Federal student loans have a grace period that gives most borrowers six months to get a...
New Web Site Provides Comparative Data on College and University Costs, Diversity and Graduation Rates
The Institute for College Access & Success - November 5, 2009This media alert introduces College InSight, an important new higher education data and research web site.
California Foster Youth Missing Out on Financial Aid
The Institute for College Access & Success - October 26, 2009In California and nationally, very few former foster youth make it to or through college, and cost is a major obstacle. A new report shows that despite federal and state programs and policies...
Statement on House Committee Vote on Consumer Financial Protection Agency
The Institute for College Access & Success - October 22, 2009Our statement on the House Financial Services Committee's passage of a bill to create the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, which would protect consumers from private student loans and other...
Statement on College Board Trends Report
The Institute for College Access & Success - October 20, 2009The College Board's "Trends in Student Aid" and "Trends in College Pricing" shed important light on how students pay for college and the role of student loans. Lauren Asher comments on the expected...
900,000 Students Blocked from Federal Student Loans
October 7, 2009Today we released a new report, Getting with the Program: Community College Students Need Access to Federal Loans, which finds that nearly one in 10 community college students in the U.S. can't get...
Borrowers with Private Student Loans Blocked from Bankruptcy Relief
The Project on Student Debt - September 21, 2009On September 23, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law held the first ever hearing on private student loans and bankruptcy. Lauren Asher testified as an...
Statement on House Passage of Landmark Higher Education Bill
The Institute for College Access & Success - September 17, 2009Statement of Lauren Asher on passage of H.R. 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009.
As Student Debt Rises, More Undergraduates Go Straight to Most Dangerous Loans
The Project on Student Debt - August 25, 2009New analysis of federal data from 2007-08 reveals that two-thirds of private loan borrowers did not take out all they could in safer, more affordable federal loans. This press release outlines this...
Statement of Lauren Asher on House Education Bill
The Institute for College Access & Success - July 15, 2009Lauren Asher, president of the Institute and the Project on Student Debt, praises landmark legislation for federal student aid and highlights important facts.
