We need to find the teachable moments within the higher education financing and repayment process ...
American Student Assistance has a unique window onto students during some very important milestones in their formative financial years. Our nonprofit interacts with students from the time they’re choosing a college, to applying for financial aid and loans, to starting a first job, getting...
For the past 30 years, the student debt issue has been slowly simmering. Government loans quietly edged out grants as the primary form of financial aid, while college tuitions continued their rise. All the while, we piled debt on to students without adequately preparing them to manage it.
Now, student debt has come to a boil. An astonishingly high 30% of the 37 million Americans with student loan...
Massachusetts regulators propose efforts to protect students from unexpected college closures | also see https://t.co/auTVca7310 https://t.co/BUb4hPqi8J
Official @UMassD: “There’s a lot of uncertainty and there’s a lot of fear. Not only for how this is affecting families that are trying to apply for aid, but we have several families we’re working with right now whose parents are furloughed ..." https://t.co/S6DCiUoJGY
Two freshman congresswomen from Massachusetts named to key committees: Lori Trahan joins House Committee on Education and Labor, Ayanna Pressley joins House Committee on Oversight and Reform per
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We need to find the teachable moments within the higher education financing and repayment process ...
American Student Assistance has a unique window onto students during some very important milestones in their formative financial years. Our nonprofit interacts with students from the time they’re choosing a college, to applying for financial aid and loans, to starting a first job, getting... 
For the past 30 years, the student debt issue has been slowly simmering. Government loans quietly edged out grants as the primary form of financial aid, while college tuitions continued their rise. All the while, we piled debt on to students without adequately preparing them to manage it.
Now, student debt has come to a boil. An astonishingly high 30% of the 37 million Americans with student loan... 
