In this week’s podcast, James provides overview of the bill, funding levels for the Department of Education, how the bill is a high-water point and the Senate is likely to come in lower while Shelly hits on financial assistance provisions. Vicki covers the Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program provisions in the bill and highlights the income share agreement pilot that is expected to be announced shortly by the Department. Meanwhile, Pam goes over the five recent individual town hall meetings featuring five Democratic presidential candidates. Stef then highlights NCHER’s upcoming Annual Conference and announces our first trivia question winner.

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In this week’s podcast, James and Shelly take a deeper dive into several state servicing laws, many of which include licensing and other programmatic requirements which continue to proliferate and impact our private student loan holders, servicers, collectors, and guarantors. Vicki talks about: data integrity and what this could mean for all the various proposals to use repayment rate and where the data is likely to come from and impact as far as National Student Loan Data System reporting, discussions with the U.S. Department of Education regarding data integrity; and the pending Master Promissory Note that is out for comment and remarks from Diane Jones last week. Pam shares recent news items as well updates listeners to the newest 2020 presidential candidates. Stef then highlights NCHER’s upcoming Annual Conference and kicks off our newest segment: the trivia question.

In this week’s podcast, James and Shelly review several in both the Senate and House with Secretary Betsy DeVos’ appearing to discuss the U.S. Department of Education’s FY2020 budget request. Vicki talks the recent announcement from Experian regarding loan transfers and credit reporting. Pam updates listeners on NCHER’s newest social media campaign while and highlights two dark horse 2020 presidential candiates. Stef then reminds listeners about two upcoming NCHER meetings: the Spring Legal Meeting and the Annual Conference.

In this week’s podcast, James and Shelly address President Trump’s FY 2020 budget request and analyze how it could impact higher education as lawmakers begin reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Vicki talks about the cancer deferment, explaining where we are and why, and what to expect. Pam introduces NCHER’s newest social media campaign while Vicki talks about Financial Literacy Day and the activities of members of NCHER’s Access and Success Committee. Stef then reminds listeners about two upcoming NCHER meetings: the Spring Legal Meeting and the Annual Conference.

March 8, 2019 – NCHER Staff (James, Shelly, Steff and Pam) analyze the recent priorities to reauthorize the Higher Education Act made by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), and dissect how these proposals could impact NCHER members. We also provide an updated list of who is and who is not running for president in 2020 and remind listeners about two upcoming NCHER meetings: 2019 Spring Legal Meeting and 2019 Annual Conference.

February 22, 2019 – NCHER Staff (James, Shelly, and Pam) discuss the recently-completed to FY 2019 budget agreement, how higher education will implement a number of programs, review the 2018 budget agreement, and speculate what could be in President Trump’s FY 2020 budget request. We also provide listeners with a rundown of where the Democratic presidential candidates stand on student debt and college affordability and preview.

NCHER Staff (James, Shelly, Stef, Pam, and Vicki) outline what's happening on Capitol Hill, in the world of higher education regulations, and court cases that impact NCHER members. We preview what items listeners should pay attention to throughout the year and provide an update with what attendees of NCHER's 2019 Legislative Conference talked about the most.