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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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July 23, 2008
Student-Aid Administrators Worry About Access to Loans, Survey Finds
Most student-aid officials remain worried about the availability of student loans, and less than half believe recent federal legislation does enough to ensure that students will have access to the aid, according to a membership survey released this week by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
More than half of the respondents said that at least one lender they used through the Federal Family Education Loan program indicated it would no longer provide loans to their students, though it would continue to lend to students at other institutions. About 60 percent of respondents said Congress should prohibit lenders from discriminating against certain types of institutions. Several banks stopped lending last spring to colleges with high default rates, low loan volumes, or both.
Even so, more than half of the respondents said they lacked a back-up plan — or believed that one was necessary — in case the federal loan program faced disruptions.
Respondents were split over the issue of private loans. About half said it would be harder this year for their students to take out private loans, which are not backed by the federal government. But when asked if the private-loan market was getting worse, more than half said it had stabilized.
The survey also found that nearly 75 percent of respondents offer students a preferred-lender list, despite new regulations that have made such lists more complicated to maintain. —Beckie Supiano
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