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Download full textMelissa Emrey-Arras; Sarah Kaczmarek; A. Nicole Clowers – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
Federal student loans are an important resource to help millions of individuals pay for higher education. As of March 2024, the Department of Education held $1.5 trillion in outstanding William D. Ford Federal Direct Loans and Federal Family Education Loans for nearly 45 million borrowers. In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Loan Repayment, College Students
Marisol Cruz Cain; Kaelin Kuhn, Contributor; Nicole Jarvis, Contributor; David Matcham, Contributor; Jillian Clouse, Contributor; Rebecca Eyler, Contributor; Ashley Mattson, Contributor; Brandon Mitchell, Contributor; Walter Vance, Contributor – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
For decades, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms were processed electronically by the legacy Central Processing System. In 2021 the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) initiated a system development effort and in December 2023 deployed a new system to process forms for the 2024-2025 school year. However, student aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Audits (Verification), Information Systems
Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the entry ramp to federal grants and loans that many students depend on to afford college. Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act in 2020 in part to make it easier to apply for federal aid. However, Education's rollout of the new FAFSA has suffered from numerous challenges and delays.…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs, Audits (Verification), Information Systems
Mayer, Alexander K.; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Diamond, John – MDRC, 2015
MDRC is pleased to provide testimony on college access and completion to the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance. Access to college has increased substantially over the last 50 years, but student success--defined as the combination of academic success and degree or certificate completion--has not kept pace. Student success,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Graduation, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Bargerstock, Charles T. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 1982
Basic legal knowledge that the student financial administrator needs is outlined: the legal system, requirements and regulations affecting financial aid, interacting with lawyers and the legal system, and substantive law and legal issues affecting the operation of the office. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Students, Federal Regulation, Higher Education, Laws
Boren, Susan – 1989
A background of the Pell Grant program (the largest in terms of appropriations of the federal student financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act as amended) is presented. Four sections are as follows: background and issues (introduction, Pell Grant program description, eligibility for Pell Grants, and profile of Pell…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Finance, Eligibility, Financial Aid Applicants
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Postsecondary Research, Information Systems, and Institutional Aid. – 1981
Descriptions of New York State and federal student financial aid programs as of November 1981 are presented for use by postsecondary institutions in compliance with part 53 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education. These descriptions may be used in the preparation of catalogs or bulletins and include information of application…
Descriptors: College Students, Eligibility, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
US Senate, 2007
This report was prepared by the Chairman's Staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee setting forth the findings of an investigation into marketing practices in the Federal Family Education Loan program ("FFEL"). Evidence uncovered by the Chairman's investigation demonstrates that many FFEL lenders routinely…
Descriptors: Marketing, Federal Programs, Student Loan Programs, Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
Hearings on the proposed federal fiscal 1984 budget are presented that focus on proposals for federal student financial assistance. One of the major recommendations of the Reagan administration's budget is to eliminate funding for the Pell Grant, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, and State Student Incentive Grant programs and to create…
Descriptors: Budgets, Federal Aid, Government Role, Grants
Bureau of Student Financial Assistance (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1980
The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program, the largest federal student aid program, is explained. The method by which a student's eligibility is determined is described in detail. In a section on calculation of eligibility for dependent students, two worksheets are provided: that for families with no farm or business assets, and those with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Eligibility, Family Income
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
The text of federal oversight hearings on Title III of the Institutional Aid Program is presented. Statements by various college administrators, higher education association representatives, and state legislators are included. The proposed regulations were issued pursuant to Title III of the Education Amendments of 1980. In addition to clarifying…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Colleges, Community Colleges, Developing Institutions
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1983
Oversight hearings on the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) are presented. Sallie Mae was established by the Education Amendments of 1972 to provide liquidity for Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) lenders by purchasing GSL portfolios from lenders or making loans on GSL loans held by lenders. In 1982, Sallie Mae had total cumulative…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Banking, Capital, Financial Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1979
The administration of the Post Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program by the Veterans' Administration is described, and the operation of the program within the Department of Defense and its components is covered. Appended materials include proposed rules for a new participatory program for educational assistance for persons who first…
Descriptors: College Students, Eligibility, Federal Aid, Higher Education
Palmer, Stacy E. – The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1984
The Supreme Court decision upholding colleges' and universities' denial of financial aid to students who fail to sign up for the draft is reported and examined in the context of the Reagan administration's policy, and the likelihood of lobbyists approaching Congress for legislative changes is discussed. Excerpts from the decision are provided.…
Descriptors: Activism, Armed Forces, College Students, Court Litigation
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
Eligibility criteria for institutional participation in the Cal Grant awards program was assessed by the California Postsecondary Education Commission in cooperation with the Student Aid Commission. Attention was directed to alternatives to these criteria that would permit the use of these awards by both undergraduates enrolled in nonaccredited,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Eligibility, Evaluation Criteria, Grants
