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This document provides an overview of a sample default prevention and management plan for schools. The plan is divided into six sections that outline activities schools can implement at different stages: (1) an overview of benefits and requirements; (2) early enrollment stages including entrance counseling and identifying at-risk students; (3) late enrollment stages such as exit counseling and withdrawal reporting; (4) post-enrollment activities like delinquency assistance and maintaining contact; (5) enhanced counseling; and (6) tools and assessments. The summary emphasizes promoting student, school, and program success through interrelated and easy-to-implement activities.

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Description: Tags: 05EACIntSessDefaultPrevention

This document provides an overview of a sample default prevention and management plan for schools. The plan is divided into six sections that outline activities schools can implement at different stages: (1) an overview of benefits and requirements; (2) early enrollment stages including entrance counseling and identifying at-risk students; (3) late enrollment stages such as exit counseling and withdrawal reporting; (4) post-enrollment activities like delinquency assistance and maintaining contact; (5) enhanced counseling; and (6) tools and assessments. The summary emphasizes promoting student, school, and program success through interrelated and easy-to-implement activities.

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Session 13

Default Prevention 
A Plan for Student and  
School Success
Craig Rorie
 Rosemary Foltis 1

 
Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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

 
Default Prevention & Management Plan

Which schools should adopt default 
prevention activities? 

All Schools

 
Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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

 
Default Prevention & Management Plan 
Entrance Counseling
• Emphasize the important of paying loans
• Describe consequences of default
• Repayment options and payment amounts
• Obtain contact information 

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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
Students At­Risk 
• Causes and solutions of:
– Unsatisfactory academic progress
– Withdrawals
• Inaccurate or late enrollment 
change reporting
• Analyze your data
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Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
Withdrawals

• Withdraw = Defaults 
• Loss of part or all of grace period
• Use of LRDR to determine patterns 

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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
Timely & Accurate Reporting

• Ensure borrowers receive full grace 
   period
• Ensure timely borrower contact by
   servicer
• Adhere to a monthly schedule

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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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 
Defaulter Characteristics 19

 
Default Prevention & Management Plan 
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan 
Late Stage Delinquency           
Assistance (LSDA)
• Available to all schools
• Simple process
• Immediate impact
• Yields dramatic results

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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
Tools for Schools

• NSLDS For Students
• IFAP
• http://www.studentaid.ed.gov 

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Default Prevention & Management Plan
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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Default Prevention & Management Plan
We appreciate your feedback and comments. 
We can be reached at:

Phone:    (202) 377­4259
Email:    [email protected]
               [email protected]

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