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EDSHARE® Grant Recipients
(As of January 2003)
Alliant International University/ Multiple campuses - For developing a Web-based system that tracks Stafford loan recipients exiting the university and connecting them with counseling services.
American Career College/Los Angeles, CA - For development of a free, General Education Diploma (GED) program to increase the number of students who successfully repay their loans.
California Polytechnic State University/San Luis Obispo, CA - For creation of a series of "financial survival" workshops for graduate and undergraduate students, and eventually high school students.
California State University, Channel Islands/Camarillo, CA - For training of students to become peer educators and present counseling sessions to borrowers.
California State University, Fresno/Fresno, CA - To increase contact with high-risk students and expand debt management provided in university orientation sessions for incoming freshmen.
California State University, Monterey Bay/Seaside, CA - For creation of a Student Loan Advising Program designed collaboratively by financial aid, residential life and student activities staff.
California State University, Northridge/ Northridge, CA - For increasing its lender collaboration and instituting a new default prevention plan with strong benchmarks and new research-driven practices.
City College of San Francisco/San Francisco, CA - For development and implementation of a Web-based system to track Stafford loan recipients leaving CCSF, and for an in-school repayment counseling program.
Cleveland Chiropractic College/Los Angeles, CA - For instituting a Financial Aid/Default Management Help Desk to contact and counsel all borrowers, including a default management specialist to intervene with delinquent borrowers.
Computer Education Institute/Multiple California locations - To initiate an aggressive mail and telephone campaign targeted at borrowers in repayment and delinquent status, and to enhance borrower interviews.
Consortium of 10 Northern California Community Colleges/Multiple campuses throughout Northern California - For developing a project plan to implement a comprehensive community college debt management and default prevention program.
Corinthian Colleges/Santa Ana, CA - and multiple campuses nationwide - To conduct specialized default prevention activities at three higher default rate institutions and develop a debt management curriculum to be replicated at all campuses.
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising/Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco & San Diego, CA - For expanding the content and enhancing the sessions provided in the school's Financial Survivor Skills program.
Gonzaga University/Spokane, WA - For design of a financial peer education program, including new print and Web-based educational materials.
Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District/El Cajon, CA - For a three-year project to provide financial education to more than 8,000 students, including an online course.
Heald Colleges/San Francisco, CA and multiple locations in the West - For creating a new default prevention program that focuses on improving the student retention rate at all campuses, including intensive programs for students identified as at risk of leaving school.
Lassen Community College District/Shasta & Butte Counties, CA - For increasing student employment opportunities by expanding an off-campus work-study program and developing financial planning seminars.
Lewis-Clark State College/Lewiston, ID - To expand debt management awareness among incoming students and contact and counsel students who have left the college.
Linfield College/McMinnville, OR - For creating a debt management brochure, expanding graduate contact and launching a "game show" to engage students on financial issues.
Multnomah Bible College & Seminary/Portland, OR - For creating a borrower education program that includes peer mentors and a financial life seminar for graduating students.
Pepperdine University Graduate School of Management/Culver City, CA - To produce and distribute an interactive CD-ROM tool, the Student Borrowing IQ Project.
Prescott College/Prescott, AZ - For creating specialized publications, a video, and an enhanced financial aid Web site, as well as specialized outreach to Native American populations.
Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine/Tempe, AZ - For a multi-media debt management program for graduate- and professional-level students, including CD-ROM, video, and Internet-based projects.
University of California, Geffen School of Medicine/Los Angeles, CA - To support and enhance the school debt management Web site and streaming video technology.
University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco, CA - To increase debt awareness and promote sound borrowing practices through a new comprehensive debt management program.
University of Nevada (Reno)/Reno, NV - For launching a student financial planning series run jointly by the student union and office of student financial services.
University of Phoenix/Multiple campuses nationwide - To conduct research on and begin developing a four-part default prevention program for all campuses, including Web-based services and an online money management course.
University of San Diego/Consortium of institutions - For a clearinghouse and repository to collect, evaluate and distribute financial literacy resources, tools and information through the California Student Debt Resource and Awareness Project task force.
University of Southern California/Los Angeles, CA - For developing an interactive Web site tailored for students at each grade level, to measure and increase financial literacy before loan applications are processed.
Washington State University/Pullman, WA - To establish a financial literacy project that includes a workshop series and development of a database for determining "student default" profiles.
Western Default Prevention Consortium/Two locations in Nevada and one in California - To create a Web-based National Student Reference Data System to provide timely borrower data in support of Clarita Career College, Heritage College and Dahan Institute.
Willamette University/Salem, OR - For development of residential commons programs that address not only debt management but scholarship research, credit counseling, student aid planning and evaluation of loan consolidation.
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