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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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October 25, 2006
Student-Loan Company Cancels Caribbean Confab, Saying Its Purpose Has Been Misunderstood
A private student-loan company that had invited financial-aid administrators to the Caribbean for an all-expenses-paid “Education Summit” has canceled the conference, citing “confusion and minisformation” about its purpose.
In a letter sent today to conference attendees, George Pappas, senior vice president of EduCap Inc., which does business as Loan to Learn, said the decision had been made “in light of recent inaccurate reports in the media regarding the financial-aid community and the unfortunate perception these reports have created.”
“Considerable confusion and misinformation exist about the purpose of the summit that was scheduled in February,” Mr. Pappas continued. “The goal of the conference was to foster an informed, thoughtful discussion about creating an educated citizenry.”
He noted that 80 percent of those who responded to a September 5 invitation to the summit were not financial-aid officials.
Loan to Learn is not the first lending company to pay financial-aid administrators’ way to a conference. But the large price tag of the trip — $3,000 per person by some estimates — had raised eyebrows among administrators, some of whom saw it as an attempt to buy access to colleges “preferred lender” lists.
While federal student-loan law prohibits colleges from requiring students to borrow from a specific bank, many institutions suggest certain “preferred lenders,” and those are the ones that students usually choose. For that reason, lenders fight vigorously to be put on a college’s preferred list.
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