There’s good reason why aid administrators’ heads may be spinning this morning. The same day that ranking minority members on the House and Senate education committees introduced legislation to extend the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act (ECASLA), Democratic education leaders sent letters to college presidents urging them to be prepared to deploy the Direct Loan program for the 2010-11 academic year. All of this leaves schools wondering: Will there be a FFEL program next year?

The full article was originally published in NASFAA’s Today’s News on 11/19/09.

"After a year of worrying, estimating, discounting, and price adjusting, the dust has settled on the Fall 2009 enrollment numbers," writes Justin Draeger in Campus Today. "A catastrophe that many feared did not materialize. So how did college enrollments shake out? Let’s see."

You can read the complete Nov. 18, 2009 Campus Today article on-line

I noticed a few articles missing from my portfolio today and decided just to add them quickly. They’ve been published in the last year or so and may be a bit out of date. 

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are savings accounts that match what low-income families deposit to help them save for expenses such as college tuition – but they do far more. These programs help students prepare financially, academically, and mentally for the prospect of going to college.

The full article was originally published in 2008.

Much of our college affordability efforts focus solely on lowering costs or increasing financial aid, but other business models show that there are other ways to make products and services affordable, and even free to the end-user. Why not college?

The full article was originally published in the Student Aid Transcript in 2008.