H.R. 3221 contains a number of provisions that will benefit students, such as setting aside mandatory funding to supplement the Pell Grant maximum grant award over the next 10 years, streamlining the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, broadening access to Perkins Loans, and keeping subsidized student loans affordable in future years by modifying the interest rate increase scheduled to take effect in 2012..

I am writing on behalf of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), and the Association of American Universities (AAU) to provide comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking published on December 23, 2008, implementing the Post 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act...We strongly support the new GI Bill and appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on these proposed regulations..

The first priority in institutional dealings with student loan providers should be the best interests of student borrowers. Institutions should exercise sound judgment in their application of these principles to particular situations that arise..

The Association of American Universities (www.aau.edu) today issued to its member universities a statement of principles on the relationships among universities, their financial aid offices, and the companies that provide loans to students and their families to finance college. The purpose of the principles, said AAU President Robert M. Berdahl, is "to help guide campus leaders as they review these relationships in the wake of recent developments.."

On behalf of the undersigned higher education associations, I am pleased to write this letter in support of H.R. 5, the College Student Relief Act of 2007. If enacted into law, H.R. 5 would cut in half the rate on subsidized Stafford Loans for undergraduates over the next five years from the current rate of 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent..

Slideshow by Nancy Coolidge, University of California, April 6, 2005