Publications by Program
The Project on Student Debt (40)
Economic Diversity (1)
College Access Marketing (1)
Student Loan Watch (2)
Keeping California's Promise (2)
Simplifying the FAFSA (3)
The Project on Student Debt (40)
Letter to Secretary Spellings about Cohort Default Rates
Project on Student Debt, August 2008This letter requests that the Department of Education flag two-year institutions with exceptionally low federal loan participation rates in their annual Cohort Default Rate report. This practice...
Official Comment on Proposed Rules for IBR and Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Project on Student Debt, July 2008On July 15, 2008, the Project on Student Debt submitted its official comment on the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rules for the Income-Based Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness...
A Borrower's Guide to July 1, 2008
The Project on Student Debt, June 2008This is a guide to what college students, their parents, and people already repaying their student loans need to know about the helpful changes taking place on July 1, 2008.
Economic Diversity (1)
Time to Reexamine Institutional Cooperation on Financial Aid
The Institute for College Access & Success, June 2008Over the past two decades, colleges and universities have increasingly engaged in financial aid "bidding wars" for students with high test scores or grades but little or no financial need. A new...
College Access Marketing (1)
Financial Aid Awareness and College Attainment
The Institute for College Access & Success, October 2004This is a pdf of a powerpoint presentation given at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute on college access marketing, with specific examples of marketing campaigns from across the country.
Student Loan Watch (2)
Conversion of Non-Profit Student Loan Companies
Student Loan Watch, May 2005This report examines the process by which non-profit guaranty agencies can be converted to for-profit enterprises, and some of the conflicts of interest and inefficiencies that can result from such...
Money For Nothing
Student Loan Watch, August 2004The Institute's first major publication, Money For Nothing, brought national attention to the practice of "recycling" student loans with a guaranteed 9.5 percent interest subsidy. Until public...
Keeping California's Promise (2)
Proposed Cal Grant Cuts Would Hit Community College Students Hardest
The Institute for College Access & Success, March 2008Many more community college students than students at California’s four-year colleges would lose financial aid under Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed budget for 2009. This issue brief finds that...
Green Lights & Red Tape
The Institute for College Access & Success, December 2007This report finds wide variations in financial aid policies and practices at the state’s community colleges, which can have a major impact on students’ access to available aid. We hope that our...
Simplifying the FAFSA (3)
Going to the Source: A Practical Way to Simplify the FAFSA
The Institute for College Access & Success, March 2007This report outlines a plan for simplifying the financial aid application process by letting financial aid applicants ask the IRS to automatically answer many of the most difficult and important...
Opinion on Legal Requirements for Disclosure of Tax Transcript Data
Holland + Knight LLP, March 2007This legal opinion concludes that the IRS may legally release tax transcript information to the Department of Education with a financial aid applicant's written request. This procedure could be...
Testimony of Lauren Asher before Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
Project on Student Debt, September 2006The Associate Director of the Project on Student Debt addressed the ACSFA about ways of simplifying the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) by using information the government already...
