Operations Bulletin

Frequently Asked Questions: School Liability in Disbursing Loan Funds
Find out more about school liability in disbursing funds for students who drop below half-time status.

Identity Theft Fuels Debate About Protecting Private Information
Learn more about federal and state legislation designed to regulate the disclosure of Social Security numbers.

Debt-Management Perspectives

USA Funds Announces Launch of MEDLOANS Online Loan Portfolio
USA Funds^® has announced the launch of a new online tool that helps medical schools quickly and easily deliver exit counseling to their student-loan borrowers. Read the announcement.

New USA Funds Life Skills Module Offers Financial Advice for Married Students
USA Funds introduces a new USA Funds Life Skills^® module that focuses on the unique challenges faced by married students. Learn more.

Access to Education

Report Finds Little Change in Student-Loan-Debt Burdens From Early to Late 1990s
A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics discloses that, although the percentage of bachelor-degree recipients who borrowed for college and the average amount borrowed rose between the 1992-1993 and 1999-2000 academic years, the average debt burden, which compares loan payments to salary, stayed about the same. Download a copy of the report, “Debt Burden: A Comparison of 1992-93 and 1999-2000 Bachelor’s Degree Recipients a Year After Graduating.”