October 22, 2008

Student-Loan Crunch Sets Back Some Private Colleges, but Most Manage

By Beckie Supiano

The student-loan crunch that started in the spring didn't become a widespread crisis this fall, but it did require a lot of colleges to work behind the scenes to ensure their students could obtain loans, according to a survey of private institutions released Tuesday.

The survey was conducted by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities as a follow-up to a related study in March (The

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