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News Articles (1)
Reducing the Dangers of Debt
National Crosstalk, August 2005This article examines the costs and risks of relying on personal debt to finance higher education, and suggests practical alternatives to increase college access for all students.
Fact Sheets (25)
Risky Private Student Lending On the Rise Again
The Institute for College Access & Success, December 2011One-page fact sheet on the recent signs of renewed growth in the private student loan market.
Tips for Using “Net Price Calculators”
The Institute for College Access & Success, November 2011Starting October 29, 2011, almost all U.S. colleges and universities are required to have “net price calculators” on their websites. These calculators can make it much easier to start figuring out...
House FY12 Appropriations Bill Increases Uncertainty and Complexity in the Financial Aid Process for Students with Family Income
, October 2011Under current law, students with family incomes below $32,000 who also meet additional requirements may receive an automatic-zero expected family contribution (EFC), making them eligible for the...
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Reports (22)
Student Debt and the Class of 2010
The Institute for College Access & Success, November 2011Two-thirds of college seniors graduated with loans in 2010, and they carried an average of $25,250 in debt. They also faced the highest unemployment rate for young college graduates in recent...
Critical Choices
The Project on Student Debt, July 2011Our new report Critical Choices: How Colleges Can Help Students and Families Make Better Decisions about Private Loans documents promising practices that a variety of financial aid offices are...
Student Debt and the Class of 2009
The Project on Student Debt, October 2010College seniors who graduated in 2009 carried an average of $24,000 in student loan debt. Meanwhile, unemployment for recent college graduates climbed from 5.8% in 2008 to 8.7% in 2009 – the...
Letters/Petitions (37)
Coalition Letter to Secretary Duncan On Urgent Need to Correct the On-Time Completion Rate Disclosure Calculation
The Institute for College Access & Success, October 2011Coalition letter to Secretary Duncan on the urgent need for a technical correction to the recent regulation requiring disclosure of the “on-time completion rate” for all career education programs.
Letter to the Senate Urging the Confirmation of Richard Cordray as Director of the CFPB
The Institute for College Access & Success, September 2011Letter from the Institute's president Lauren Asher, urging the Senate to confirm Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Coalition Letter Urging the President to Protect Pell Grants
The Institute for College Access & Success, July 2011Sixty-two education, student, civil rights and public policy organizations sent the President a letter urging him to protect Pell Grant awards and eligibility in negotiations over the debt ceiling.
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Testimonies (11)
Testimony of Pauline Abernathy, Vice President The Institute for College Access & Success
The Institute for College Access & Success, June 2011Testimony of Pauline Abernathy, Vice President of The Institute for College Access & Success, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for the hearing “Drowning in...
Testimony of Lauren Asher Before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
The Institute for College Access & Success, September 2010Lauren Asher was invited to testify at the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing "The Federal Investment in For-Profit Education: Are Students Succeeding?"
Testimony of Lauren Asher on Private Loans and Bankruptcy
The Project on Student Debt, September 2009Lauren Asher was invited to testify at the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law's hearing, "An Undue Hardship? Discharging Educational Debt in Bankruptcy."
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Miscellaneous (22)
TICAS Comments on Private Student Loans
The Institute for College Access & Success, January 2012Official comments in response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s “Request for Information Regarding Private Education Loans and Private Educational Lenders” (FR Doc. 2011–29737, Docket...
TICAS Comments on Draft Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
The Institute for College Access & Success, December 2011Comments on the “Know Before You Owe” draft financial aid shopping sheet, developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the U.S. Department of Education.
Our comments...
TICAS Comments on Student Success Task Force Recommendations
The Institute for College Access & Success, December 2011TICAS comments on the California Community Colleges Student Success Task Force’s draft recommendations, “Refocusing California Community Colleges Toward Student Success.”
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Internal Press Releases (2)
New Default Rate Data for Federal Student Loans
The Institute for College Access & Success, December 2009The U.S. Department of Education has released a preview of new draft default rates yesterday. The new data show nearly 400,000 students who entered repayment in 2007 had defaulted by 2009,...
National Expert on Student Debt Applauds Senate Passage of Higher Education Access Act
Project on Student Debt, July 2007Shireman comments on passage of landmark legislation to increase grant aid and make student loan repayment more fair and manageable.
Polls (3)
Poll: Young Adults Say Higher Education is More Important but Less Affordable
The Institute for College Access & Success, November 2011A national bi-partisan survey of adults ages 18-34 reveals that young adults today believe a college education is more important than it was for their parents' generation, that it has become less...
National Survey on the Burdens of Student Debt
Project on Student Debt, May 2006This national survey found that Americans see paying off student loans as a serious problem for both middle-class and low-income families, and they support reforms to make loan payments more...
National Survey of College Presidents
The Project on Student Debt, October 2005A new national survey of college and university presidents finds that 86% are concerned about the amount of debt students are taking on to pay for their education, and that they support a range of...
White Papers (3)
Reasons & Recommendations for Retooling the Perkins Loan Program
The Project on Student Debt, July 2009President Obama’s budget proposes expanding and redesigning the Perkins Loan Program, a low-cost federal loan option available to some students through their colleges. Congress will play a...
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...
White Paper: Addressing Student Loan Repayment Burdens
Project on Student Debt, February 2006This white paper analyzes the U.S. student loan programs' strengths and weaknesses and identifies practical ways to achieve a more rational and effective balance of borrower obligations and...
Events (1)
Advancing America's Economic Competitiveness: The Role of Student Loans
Project on Student Debt, November 2005The Project on Student Debt cohosted a forum with the American Enterprise Institute in November of 2005. See the agenda and papers presented at this event.
Policy models (5)
Policy Agenda to Address Rising Student Debt
The Project on Student Debt, June 2007With the Higher Education Act up for reauthorization in Congress, our policy agenda should serve as a guide for what concerned policymakers can do to strengthen federal financial aid policies and...
College Opportunity Incentive Fund
Project on Student Debt, June 2007This policy proposal would encourage states and institutions of higher education to increase the number of young adults from families with below-median incomes who enroll in and graduate from college.
Private Loan Policy Agenda
The Project on Student Debt, June 2007This policy agenda for private student loans outlines a way to give students and parents with private loans access to the kind of information and consumer rights that other types of borrowers can...
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Presentations (2)
Financial Aid Awards: Pledges, Packaging and Letters
The Institute for College Access & Success, September 2009The Institute for College Access & Success' Cedrick Andrews and Matt Reed presented at this year's National College Access Networks conference in San Francisco on financial aid award letters and...
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.
Issue Briefs (2)
Still Denied
The Project on Student Debt, April 2011Our new issue brief Still Denied: How Community Colleges Shortchange Students by Not Offering Federal Loans found that more than one million community college students were denied access federal...
Adding It All Up
The Institute for College Access & Success, March 2011By the end of October, U.S. colleges must meet a federal requirement to create online “net price calculators.” These calculators are intended to help prospective students and their families gauge...
