This guide is intended to help educational institutions counsel students and parents about consolidation of federal education loans for borrowers in repayment, borrowers in default, and borrowers who are still in school. Through consolidation, borrowers may combine various types of federal education loans, including direct loans and loans made…

This 2-volume report summarizes a study that examined the satisfaction of borrowers who were repaying student loans originated through the Federal Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan programs. Volume 1 presents a summary of the report's findings. A total of 1,328 respondents from a nationally representative sample of 3,000 borrowers in…

This guide for postsecondary education institutions provides guidelines for administering the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. Chapter 1 describes general participation and origination criteria. Chapter 2 describes the electronic support the Department of Education provides, including information on Electronic Data Exchange (EDE),…

This report provides Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) and Direct Loan Program official cohort default rates for all schools with 30 or more borrowers or official average cohort default rates for schools with under 30 borrowers. All schools in this report have fiscal year (FY) 1993, 1994, and 1995 default rates of 25 percent or higher. The…

This report provides Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) official cohort default rates for fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995 for all schools, regardless of their program participation status. The default rates for each school are categorized by state and in descending order of default rate, and the data is also included for type of loan program…

This guide is intended to provide the student loan industry with information on how cohort default rates are calculated for originating lenders, current lenders, and guaranty agencies participating in the Federal Family Education Loan Program. The guide notes that fiscal year 1995 data will be calculated based on data reported to the National…

The University of Oregon's financial aid director describes the success of the Federal Direct Student Loan program in its first year at the institution. No significant program disadvantages were experienced, and its advantages included flexibility of administration, ease of data management with the servicer, decrease in office workload, and…

This report provides Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) official cohort default rates for all schools with 30 or more borrowers or official average cohort default rates for schools with under 30 borrowers. The schools listed in this report have fiscal year 1995 official cohort default rates of 40 percent or higher, which may make them subject to…

This study examined satisfaction of approximately 2,200 institutions of higher education that participated in the Federal Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs during the 1995-96 academic year. Among major findings were: (1) both Direct Loan and FFEL institutions were satisfied with their programs, although Direct Loan…

As part of a 5-year evaluation of the Direct Loan and the Federal Family Education Loan programs, 19 institutions of higher education participating in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program were visited to examine the diversity of approaches used by schools in planning for and implementing the Direct Loan program. The schools included…

This study examined satisfaction of approximately 2,200 institutions of higher education that participated in the Federal Direct Loan and Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) programs during the 1996-97 academic year. Among major findings were: (1) both Direct Loan and FFEL institutions were satisfied with their loan programs, although FFEL…

As part of a 5-year evaluation of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program, 12 participating institutions of higher education were visited to examine the diversity of approaches used by schools in planning for and implementing the program. The schools included public and private two- and four-year institutions and proprietary schools. Major…

The "Student Financial Aid Handbook" explains the policies and procedures required for institutions of higher education to administer federally funded student financial assistance programs properly. This volume clarifies a school's responsibility with respect to Stafford and PLUS loans. These loans are offered through two delivery…

This workbook is intended to be used in conjunction with a workshop on the basic procedures, requirements, and responsibilities for properly administering the Title IV student financial aid programs. These include: the federal Pell Grant Program, the federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the federal Work Study Program, the federal…

This collection of tables is a compilation of 1998 school cohort default rates for fiscal years(FY) 1995, 1996, and 1997 for all schools that are currently participating in any Title IV student financial assistance program. Schools are listed by state in descending order by cohort default rate. Foreign schools are listed following the state…