Debt-Management Perspectives

USA Funds Recognizes Three Schools for Debt-Management Excellence
USA Funds^® has presented awards to three postsecondary institutions to recognize their efforts to curb loan defaults. Read more.

Operations Bulletin

Department warns of telephone scam
The U.S. Department of Education has issued a warning about bogus telephone offers to replace education loans with grants. A caller, who falsely claims to represent the Department, is using this phony offer as a way to collect borrowers' checking-account information. Learn more about this warning to education-loan borrowers — and what steps borrowers should take if they are victims of this scam.

Washington Report

Student-Aid-Funding Measure Clears Next Hurdle
The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations has approved legislation to provide fiscal-2005 funding for federal student-aid programs. Read more.

House Panel Hears Recommendations for Improving College-Graduation Rates
Members of a committee of the U.S. House conducted another hearing on legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Learn more.

USA Funds Update

USA Funds Helps Homeschoolers Attend College
USA Funds sponsored three scholarships through the Indiana Foundation for Home Schooling as part of its mission to enhance postsecondary-education preparedness, access and success. Read more.

Access to Education

Walks to Raise Funds for Scholarships
Learn how your school or organization can get involved with the 2004 Easy Spirit Freedom Walk for Scholarship America to raise funds for scholarships in your community.