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Cohort Default Rate: Q&A
This is the time of year we typically talk about draft Cohort Default Rate (CDR) and managing your institutions CDR throughout the year. In light of ...
It’s a Good Time to Rethink Your Exit Counseling Program
This year’s graduating class is the first since 2019 to know exactly when student loan repayment will start. It’s been confirmed that the current repayment pause ...
Pell Grant Charts for 23-24 award year are here!
On January 26, 2023, the Department of Education released the 2023-2024 Federal Pell Grant Payment and Disbursement Schedules. Each year, HEAG monitors the Pell Grant changes ...
Federal Student Loan Repayment and Forgiveness: The Saga Continues
Federal student loans will be forgiven…no they won’t. Repayment will start this month…but it didn’t. If your head is spinning from the back-and-forth of the last ...
Your New Year’s Resolution – Work Smarter, Not Harder: Compliance and Awarding Tools Available for 2023-2024
We work in a wonderful community where agencies — both private and government — provide us with the tools we need to understand regulatory changes that ...
Important Announcements from Federal Student Aid (FSA)
Federal Student Aid issued three important communications at the end of January 2022 that we wanted to bring to your attention. On January 20, 2022 in ...
What’s the Big Deal with Draft CDR?
It will be a few weeks before we expect to see the Electronic Announcement regarding the FY2019 draft cohort default rate (CDR). The CDR includes students ...
New Guidance on the ‘$1 AGI’ Problem
If there ever was a real-world example of why we must be need analysis experts and super sleuths — this is it! We first heard about ...
The New Year Brings More Student Loan Changes
When last we visited the topic, the oft extended federal student loan repayment pause provided by the CARES Act in March 2020 was set to expire ...
2021 – The Year in Review
We spent another year operating under the cloud of the ongoing global pandemic, but with widespread eligibility for and access to vaccines, life got a little ...