The Latest Resources for You and Your Students
As you know, we at American Student Assistance are always thinking about how to help you help students! So, here’s a round-up of the latest resources we have to offer, whether you put them to use for your summer students or tuck them away for the fall rush!
- – New MPNs: Master Promissory Notes that reflect the Department of Education’s most recent changes.
- – My Student Loan Resource Guide: Perfect for entrance and exit counseling, this 20-page bound guide covers the role of ASA, loan cancellation and forgiveness options, NSLDS, repayment and postponement options, delinquency and default, tax breaks, maintaining good credit, budgeting, and helpful student loan websites and definitions—plus an entrance and exit counseling checklist.
- – The Exit Counseling PowerPoint Presentation: This downloadable exit counseling presentation may be customized for your school’s needs.
- – New Loan Forgiveness and Repayment Option fact sheet: This downloadable handout explains the most current forgiveness and repayment options available to your students.
- – Managing Your Student Loan Payments without an Economic Hardship Deferment: Aimed at health profession graduates, this downloadable handout informs borrowers of their options in the case of economic hardship.
- – You’re Going to Be a Teacher: A downloadable fact sheet on the grants and loans available for students considering a career in teaching.
Borrowersrights.org
ASA has also joined the conversation on the future of the federal student loan reform. Our biggest concern remains the continued inclusion of education debt management services, so that all student borrowers possess the tools to successfully manage and repay their education debts, regardless of the source of their loans.
To learn more about this important issue, read the latest developments in the reform process, or take action, visit Borrowersrights.org.
Posted by Susan Nathan on May 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM EST
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Susan Nathan
Vice President, Lender and School Services
Biography
Susan Nathan is Vice President of Lender and School Services at American Student Assistance (ASA)®. She has held this position since October of 2002. Ms. Nathan joined ASA in February 1987 as supervisor of the external program review unit. She has held roles of increasing responsibility in product development, operations, client management and customer service, and marketing. She has been a member of the design teams for a number of ASA’s signature products, including FASTFUND, ASA’s disbursement product, and ASA Direct, ASA’s web processing tool. She was the manager of the business plan for ASA’s major system conversion in 1998.
She is credited with the development of ASA’s nationally recognized client management team. Ms. Nathan oversees the ASA Advisory Council, and is the staff liaison to the Marketing Planning Committee of ASA’s Board of Directors.
Prior to joining ASA, Ms. Nathan was a Financial Aid Officer for Lesley College. She is a graduate of Brown University and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Leadership. She is a member of state, regional and national financial aid associations and is routinely sought by the financial aid community as a professional development trainer.
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