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Debate: The Smart Reform for College Loans

(March 12) -- This week, prospects for a much-needed reform that would make college more affordable for more students, while also ending senseless corporate welfare for student lenders, have been rising. According to various reports, Democrats have been looking to include student loan reform in the reconciliation package...

Debate: Fix the Student Loan System? We Agree

(March 12) -- From the beginning of the debate on comprehensive student loan reform, Sallie Mae's position has been clear: We support it. We stand with the president in his effort to restructure the federal student loan program by leveraging low-cost U.S. Treasury funds to produce taxpayer savings and end the old system...

Opinion: Making College Affordable Again

(Dec. 24) – Over the next few weeks, high school seniors will start sending off their college applications, hoping in return to get fat envelopes offering admission. But for many, getting admitted to the college of their dreams might prove bittersweet. With states slashing their higher-education budgets and jacking...

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01/03/11 Cuomo Forms Student-Loan Center With Settlement Money Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education Andrew M. Cuomo, who was inaugurated on Saturday as the governor of New York, announced on Friday, in one of his final acts as the state's attorney general, that $13-million in settlements stemming from his office's investigation of unethical student-lending practices will go toward the creation of a national student-loan center, according to The New York Times.