Advocacy Briefs: Kennedy Introduces Student Loan Oversight Bill
.On February 1, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois), introduced the “Student Loan Sunshine Act” (S. 486) intended to “protect students and parents from exploitation by private lenders and lenders who offer gifts to colleges as a way to secure loan business.” The Sunshine Act requires full disclosure and explanation of special arrangements that lenders and colleges have to offer loan products at the college; bans lenders from offering gifts valued over $10 to college employees; requires preferred lender lists to have at least three non-affiliated lenders; and encourages borrowers to participate in the government’s loan programs before taking out private loans.
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Go behind the scenes at Match Day 2012 at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and hear Dr. Katrina Armstrong, Chief of the Internal Medicine Division at Penn Medicine describe being part of the Match Day experience.
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