Description: Tags: 05EACIntSessDefaultPrevention
Description: Tags: 05EACIntSessDefaultPrevention
Default Prevention
A Plan for Student and
School Success
Craig Rorie
Rosemary Foltis 1
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Sections
Section I Sample Plan Overview
Section II Early Stages of Enrollment
Section III Late Stages of Enrollment
Section IV After Students Leave School
Section V Enhanced Entrance/Exit Counseling
Section VI Tools and Activities for Schools
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Which schools must have a plan?
• Schools new to FFEL or DL
• Schools already in FFEL or DL following
a change in ownership resulting in a change
in control
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Which schools should adopt default
prevention activities?
All Schools
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What is required by regulation for all
schools?
• Providing Satisfactory Academic Progress
information across campus
• Entrance and exit counseling for borrowers
• Timely and accurate enrollment reporting to
NSLDS
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Focus on Cohort Default Rates
• AllTime High?
1990 CDR 22.4%
• AllTime Low?
2003 CDR 4.5%
Thank you for your extra efforts to reduce defaults!
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Beyond the CDR Dollars in Default
• Your CDR is low – but are your dollars high?
• What is your loan volume?
• What is your CDR?
• Can you calculate the approximate dollars in default at
your school?
$1,000,000.00 (volume in dollars)
x 4.5 (school CDR)
____________
$ 45,000.00 (approx dollars in default)
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Section I: Overview
• Benefits of adopting a plan
– Reduces borrower defaults
– Promotes school success
• Consequences of default for borrowers
– Include adverse impact to credit record
• Consequences of default for schools
– Loss of Title IV eligibility
– May result in provisional certification
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Section II: Early Stages of Enrollment
• Entrance Counseling
• Financial Literacy for Borrowers
• Early Identification of AtRisk Borrowers
• Communication Across Campus
• Default Prevention and Retention Staff
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Entrance Counseling
• Emphasize the important of paying loans
• Describe consequences of default
• Repayment options and payment amounts
• Obtain contact information
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Financial Literacy
• Include as part of entrance counseling
• Potential income of chosen occupation
• Interactive tools, including debt
calculators, etutorials
• Loan servicer contact information
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Students AtRisk
• Causes and solutions of:
– Unsatisfactory academic progress
– Withdrawals
• Inaccurate or late enrollment
change reporting
• Analyze your data
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Resource Leveraging
• Communication across campus
– Schoolwide effort, not just the responsibility
of financial aid office
• Dedicated default prevention staff
– Establish working relationship with borrowers
– Include student retention efforts
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Section III: Late Stages of Enrollment
• Exit Counseling
• Withdrawals
• Timely and accurate
enrollment reporting
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Exit Counseling
• Last opportunity for borrowers to
work directly with school
• Repayment plan options
• Forbearance and deferment options
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Withdrawals
• Withdraw = Defaults
• Loss of part or all of grace period
• Use of LRDR to determine patterns
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Withdrawals
• Important questions about these
borrowers:
– Why are they at high risk for default?
– How early can you identify them?
– When did they withdraw?
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Timely & Accurate Reporting
• Ensure borrowers receive full grace
period
• Ensure timely borrower contact by
servicer
• Adhere to a monthly schedule
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Section IV: After Students Leave School
• NSLDS Date Entered Repayment (DER)
Report
• Early Stage Delinquency Assistance (ESDA)
• Late Stage Delinquency Assistance (LSDA)
• Maintain Contact with Former Students
• Review Loan Record Detail Report (LRDR)
• Analyze Defaulted Loan Data to Identify
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NSLDS Reports
Particular emphasis on the following:
• Date Entered Repayment Report (DER)
• Loan Record Detail Report (LRDR)
• Late Stage Delinquency Assistance (LSDA)
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Late Stage Delinquency
Assistance (LSDA)
• Available to all schools
• Simple process
• Immediate impact
• Yields dramatic results
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Section V:
Enhanced Entrance and Exit Counseling
• Requests for borrower information
• Information about repaying the loan
• Reminders about personal financial
management and Title IV loans
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Section VI: Tools
and Activities for Schools
• FSA Assessments for default prevention
and management
• Loan counseling
• Enrollment reporting and data accuracy
• Default prevention
• General connections/publications
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Tools for Schools
• NSLDS For Students
• IFAP
• http://www.studentaid.ed.gov
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Summary
The new sample plan includes activities that:
• promote student, school, and loan program
success
• are interrelated with existing requirements
and systems
• are easy to implement and do not require
much in the way of resources
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We appreciate your feedback and comments.
We can be reached at:
Phone: (202) 3774259
Email: [email protected]
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