Student-Aid Administrators Try to Repair Their Image

After loan scandals, group turns to outsider for new leadership

Almost 30 years ago, The Chronicle described the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators as the most powerful higher-education lobbying group in Washington.

Today not even the association's new president would use that superlative.

While Nasfaa remains respected for its technical expertise, its influence on Capitol Hill has waned. Stung by last year's student-loan scandal, it is

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