October 19, 2007

In the States

TOSSING NELNET: Rhode Island's quasi-public, nonprofit student-loan agency, the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority, is ending a controversial three-year relationship with the for-profit lender Nelnet. The agency faced criticism last May when The Chronicle reported that it was allowing Nelnet staff members to operate a telephone center that supposedly offered students unbiased advice on their loans. A Chronicle investigation found that the phone center's employees did not identify themselves

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