Decision Day for MOHELA Board

Yes they should…no they shouldn’t…..It’s within the law….it’s a violation of law….. The board of the state’s student loan agency meets today under intense pressure to sell 350-million dollars of its assets despite...

Nixon calls MOHELA Deal Illegal

State government’s top lawyer says Governor Blunt’s latest proposal to use state student loan authority assets for higher education capital improvements is a bad deal. Attorney General Jay Nixon has sent a nine-page letter to the board of the Missouri...

Off to College!

The next few days will see thousands of cars, trucks, vans, and rental trailers pull up to college dormitories….and be unloaded into student rooms. The Director of Residential Life at the University of Missouri-Columbia says today’s college students want...

Avoiding Student Loan Defaults

More than 30 of Missouri’s institutions of higher education have gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars to counsel students not to default on their student loans. College students facing higher tuitions…..increased pressures from credit card...