On May 16, I sat in on May’s Public Policy Pop-Up at the American Council on Education, The Policy and Politics of Student Loan Forgiveness, with Terry Hartle and Jon Fansworth. I try to attend these monthly sessions when possible and often recommend them to my students.
I began my career in higher ed in a financial aid office and I was put in charge of loans- specifically loan collection. That was over 30 years ago. I started out managing the institution’s Perkins loan program and then took on the Stafford, PLUS, and private loans for families. In this role, I was the main liaison with collection agencies and it was brutal.
