Media Coverage
Read about the news American Student Assistance® (ASA) is making in the world of education loans.
- ASA Vice President of Borrower Services Michael Ryan spoke with New England Cable News, USA Today, and WGBH-Boston regarding President Obama's proposal for easing the debt of student loan borrowers.
- ASA Community Financial Aid Advisor Kevin Fudge was on-hand for the release of a new report by the Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children, An Early Educator's Dilemma: Balancing Educational Aspirations and Student Loan Burden. Kevin was part of an expert panel to discuss the report, which analyzes data taken from around the state on the challenges early educators face in pursuing higher education.
- University Business cites ASA research and features interviews with ASA clients Coconino Community College and Prescott College in its article Tough Conversations: Talking About Student Debt—and Default—Across the Campus.
- The Baltimore Sun quotes ASA Vice President of Borrower Services Michael Ryan in its article Student Borrowers Have Another Option Before Defaulting on Loans.
- Boston’s NPR news station featured advice from Kevin Fudge, ASA’s Education and Financial Aid Advisor, about last minute student and parent borrowing in Rising Tuition Bills a Growing Concern Among Parents.
- ASA President and CEO Paul Combe contributes to National Journal’s Expert Blog on Education—read his responses to the posts What Constitutes 'Middle Class' for Student Aid? and Something Is Working in the College Pipeline.
- The partnership between Rivier College and ASA was highlighted by the New Hampshire Union Leader.
- Rivier College also spotlighted their new relationship with ASA in Office of Financial Aid Promotes Financial Literacy Among Students, Recent Alumni.
- University Business highlights on-campus insight from ASA in 12 Tips for Implementing a Financial Literacy Program.
- MSNBC provides expert advice, including from ASA President and CEO Paul Combe, about managing student loan payments in Before You Sign for That Loan, Get Educated.
- A reader discusses the positive impact ASA has had by proactively communicating with student loan borrowers in Naple Daily News' Letters to the Editor.
- USA Today offers advice from ASA to recent college graduates on taking control of their student loans in the article Graduation Advice: Take Charge of Your Student Loans.
- ASA President and CEO Paul Combe explained that student loans problems aren’t just for kids in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine article The Dark Side of Student Debt.
- The Los Angeles Times quoted ASA Vice President Debra Chromy about the trouble borrowers are having repaying their loans in More College Graduates Are Delinquent on Repaying Student Loans.
- Washington Monthly’s College Guide blog ran a comprehensive interview with ASA President and CEO Paul Combe on the structural problems in the federal student loan program in their post A Greater Structural Problem: How the Student Loan Industry Works.
- ASA President and CEO Paul Combe spoke at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference, as highlighted by the SMU Daily Mustang in The Student Loan Meltdown: What You May Not Know.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education cited ASA’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, Michael Finn, in their article about the 1-year anniversary of student loan reform, A Year After Bank-Based Lending's Demise a Shrunken Industry Redefines Itself.
- ASA's manager of repayment assistance, Kim Carter, is quoted in the Los Angeles Times article Get Education About Student Loan Repayment Options.
- Kevin Fudge, an education and financial aid advisor at ASA, talks with New England Cable News about financing an education in a tough economic climate in the article Cuts in U.S. College Aid Loom.
- National Journal quotes ASA President and CEO Paul Combe in its article about the correlation between rising completion rates and rising default rates, Default Dilemma.
- Student Loan Borrower Assistance discusses ASA’s newest white paper, “Approaching the Tipping Point: The Implications of Student Loan Debt and the Need for Education Debt Management,” in its post The Need for Education Debt Management.
- Inside Higher Ed quotes ASA President and CEO Paul Combe in its in its report on how the federal government will help student loan borrowers handle repayment moving forward, So Far, So Good.
- The Boston Globe held an online chat with ASA Vice President of Borrower Services Michael Ryan about student loan repayment and posted the ASA article What to Do if You Can't Pay Student Loan Bills.
- Washington Monthly's College Guide blog talks about “Approaching the Tipping Point” in its post Financial Literacy and Student Debt.
- ASA President and CEO Paul Combe discusses the need for borrower advocacy in The Chronicle of Higher Education article Business Is Up in Keeping Default Rates Down.
- Bloomberg Business Week quotes ASA while examining this year’s changes to the student loan program in Financial Aid: Help Is on the Way.
- ASA Vice President of Borrower Services Michael Ryan discusses student loan management on WBUR Boston.
- The Standard-Times, the newspaper of Massachusetts’ South Coast, talks to ASA about the reasons for an increase in student loan borrowing in SouthCoast College Graduates Face Challenging Future.
- ASA President and CEO Paul Combe addresses the government's obligation to finance debt-management programs in The Chronicle of Higher Education's With Direct Lending Ascendant, Student Loans Adjust to New Reality.
- Washington Monthly's College Guide blog references ASA's stance on helping students best manage debt in its post One Month Later.
- The Student Lending Analytics Blog announces the redesign of ASA's website in its post What Does the Future Hold for Participants in the Federal Student Loan Programs?
