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#NASFAAinTheNews: "Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations at [NASFAA], said that, when the legislation first passed last year, numerous institutions asked NASFAA if they could move their start dates up..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: “'I would say it immediately raises lots of questions about how exactly this will happen. You know, the devil is always in the details, and there are lots of moving pieces to this,' Karen McCarthy, the vice president of public policy and federal relations at [NASFAA], told NOTUS."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations with [NASFAA], noted that it’s exciting to see the Education Department and its Office of Federal Student Aid making some quality-of-life adjustments after a swath of technical glitches..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Melanie Storey, president of [NASFAA], said having Treasury manage defaulted borrowers is nothing new, for the most part... 'The devil is really in the details' as we ask 'what will happen next,' Storey added, 'and that’s not clear.'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Melanie Storey, president and CEO of [NASFAA], said that it’s important to remember that policy is often iterative and administrators can expect to see more right-sizing of the Pell Grant expansion efforts..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: ... "'Congress passed that bill back in July and they introduced, for the first time in legislation, an institutional accountability framework that is based on whether students are earning more after attending some type of postsecondary education,'" ...
#NASFAAInTheNews: ... "For students concerned about the cost of schooling, the new workforce Pell Grant program is “super valuable funding,” said Jill Desjean, director of policy analysis at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators." ...
#NASFAAinTheNews: "For undergraduate students, Jill Desjean — director of policy analysis with [NASFAA] — said there's good news and bad news. The good news is that their loan limits haven't changed. The bad news is that what is changing could greatly affect students attending higher-cost schools."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "'We need information and we need clarity,' Storey said. 'My members are the people on the ground who have to answer questions for students, and I’m concerned that given the schedule, we won’t have answers until well into the spring.'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: "The indicator is applied only for first-year undergraduate applicants and is based on institution-level data drawn from the College Scorecard and Integrated Post-secondary Education Data System, adjusted for inflation as of June 2025, according to [NASFAA]."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Cost and lack of financial aid are the most significant barriers to higher education enrollment, according to 2024 findings by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "College financial aid offices gave similar warnings. Melanie Storey, the president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, urged the Education Department to 'proceed with extreme caution.'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: “Student loan eligibility and repayment involve multiple systems working together, and institutions need that process to be seamless, current and accurate...As the delivery of other programs moves to other agencies, these dependencies must be carefully considered.”
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Cost and lack of financial aid are the most significant barriers to higher education enrollment, according to 2024 findings by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators."
#NASFAAinTheNews: ..."Congress, they argue, could eliminate or simplify the policy, which the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators suggested in a 2015 report, arguing that other safeguards like Satisfactory Academic Progress already prevent fraud"...
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Sarah Austin, a policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said students tend to focus more on direct costs, or what “they actually see on their bill,” versus all the indirect costs that go along with attending college."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "The department’s 'limited list of programs designated as professional could have big implications for students,' said Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy for [NASFAA}. 'It could push some students into the private student loan market...'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Melanie Storey, president and CEO of [NASFAA]—which leads the national College Cost Transparency Initiative—said that institutions can help not just by being more up front but also more “predictable” about costs and aid from year to year..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: “On July 3, the day before Trump signed the bill into law, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators pushed back on the proposal to place more restrictions on access to federal student loans and other financial aid..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Multiple groups, including the American Council on Education, drew attention to the absence, but Melanie Storey, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, voiced the most concern..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "At the Aug. 7 hearing, Melanie Storey, NASFAA's president and a former Education Department official, urged the agency's leadership to include the financial aid community as it moves forward with putting all the new changes in place."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Anytime there is an increase in tuition, it can lead to a funding gap for the student," Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations for NASFAA, said. "They need to figure out, 'well, how am I going to make up those increased expenses?'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Melanie Storey, CEO of [NASFAA], added in a statement that 'the president's budget slashes student financial aid, effectively reducing college accessibility and affordability at a time when many families are already struggling with the daily cost of living.'"
#NASFAAinTheNews: "This cut to Pell, along with other proposed cuts, 'reverses decades of commitment to the promise of the Higher Education Act and would result in considerable harm for students pursuing postsecondary education,' said Melanie Storey, the president and CEO of NASFAA, in a statement."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Community colleges tend to be the most vulnerable to these types of scams because of their open-access mission, said Jill Desjean, director of policy analysis at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators..."
#NASFAAinTheNews: "Borrowers enrolled in PSLF should keep up with payments to make progress toward loan forgiveness, said Sarah Austin, policy analyst at NASFAA..."