Cohort Default Rate Problems
A Major Problem for Students and Families In January 2022, the U.S. General Accountability Office wrote about significant problems that Federal Student Aid and Federal Servicers would face when repayment was set to resume in September 2022. GAO highlighted...
Cohort Default Rate Measurement in the New Environment
There are several immediate impacts of policy and other changes related to the Cohort Default Rate (CDR) measurement for colleges and universities. Right or wrong, CDR is key to institutional quality ratings. The higher the CDR, the lower the institutional quality....
Student Loan Servicer Layoffs
Nelnet Announces Plans to Lay Off Over 500 Workers For the second time in the past year, one of the largest student loan servicers in the country is reducing staff. Last week, Nelnet announced layoffs of approximately 550 associates due to a...
Will Student Loan Defaults and Delinquencies Return?
Student loan borrowers have enjoyed a three-year reprieve from their student loan payments. Hopefully, many student loan borrowers are in a better place than they were before the pandemic began. Student loan repayment will resume later this summer. Even if the Biden...