The Nuts and Bolts of NCHELP _____

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The Nuts and Bolts of NCHELP_____

• Val Rodekohr
• Wyoming Student Loan Corporation
• Mark Putman
• NCHELP
• Paul S. Garrard
• NCHELP

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NCHELP

• Who we are, our mission, membership, and major
  meetings
• Committees
• Relationship with student loan industry and
  higher ed associations
• New NCHELP web site
• Listserves

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NCHELP Who are we?

• Nationwide network of schools, lenders, guaranty
  agencies, secondary markets, servicers,
  collection agencies, and other organizations
  involved in the administration of FFELP
• NCHELP members promote student access and choice
  for postsecondary education and training

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NCHELP Mission

• Our mission is to advocate for the adequate and
  affordable access to quality education for all
  students at all levels.
• NCHELP is committed to continuing our efforts to
  ensure the integrity of the FFELP.

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Classes of Membership

• Voting Membership
• guaranty agencies and secondary markets
• Associate Membership (non-voting)
• lenders
• schools
• collection agencies
• loan servicers
• other organizations approved by the Board

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Benefits of NCHELP membership

• Information
• Morning Briefing, meetings and conferences,
• Involvement
• NCHELP Committees
• Advocacy
• Works on public policy, regulatory issues, and to
  improve legislation and regulations

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Major Meetings

• January Leadership
• Debt Management Conference
• Spring Convention
• Fall Legislative Workshop
• Fall Training Conference

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NCHELP Committees

• Debt Management
• Electronic Standards
• Financial Aid Professionals
• Legal Affairs
• Membership Education and Training
• Program Operations
• Program Regulations

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Debt Management

• Assist industry participants with default
  prevention initiatives and recovery efforts when
  borrowers default
• Maree Fox (NY HESC) and Tim Fitzgibbon (ICSAC),
  Co-Chairs
• National Debt Management Conference held each
  spring

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Electronic Standards

• Established a coordinated and proactive approach
  for all NCHELP electronic standardization efforts
• Replaced CommonLine Committee
• Oversight of CommonLine, CAM, and CCI
• Bob King (Citibank) and Brian Allison (USA
  Funds), Co-Chairs
• 9 Advisory Teams support efforts

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Electronic Standards (cont.)

• ESC especially important as FFELP community
  strives for increased efficiencies with smaller
  margins
• Common Record CommonLine Implementation and
  Training
• Participation in the development of a Data
  Transport Standard

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Financial Aid Professionals

• Provide the NCHELP Board of Directors with advice
  and counsel on higher education financing issues
• Role as gatekeepers, day to day contact with
  students, part of bigger picture of school
  administration
• 20 members representing all types of schools
• Participation at NCHELP major meetings

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Legal Affairs

• Meetings throughout the year dealing with
  guarantor, lender, and secondary market issues
• Resource for NCHELP members of legal topics
• Tom Levandowski (Educaid), Chair

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Membership Education and Training

• Provide training opportunities and educational
  materials to NCHELP members
• Orientation to student loan industry
• National Fall Training Conference
• Ann Scott (GLHEC), Chair

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Program Operations

• Monitors and responds to issues that involve and
  impact loan operations and related federal
  reporting
• Clearinghouse for information
• Coordinates the development of common and
  simplified forms, procedures, and policies
  between GAs, lenders/servicers, secondary markets
  and other participants
• Works closely with ESC and promotes technology
• Renee Jennrich (ECMC) and Rick Eddington (OGSLP),
  Co-Chairs

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Program Regulations

• Responsible for all activity in the regulatory
  arena including developing NCHELP responses to
  Notices of Proposed Rule Making and other
  sub-regulatory issues
• Closely involved in HEA Reauthorization
• Develops extensive regulatory documentation for
  dissemination to NCHELP members and other
  interested parties
• Laura Kowalski (TGSLC) and Vicki Shipley (SSSC),
  Co-Chairs

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NCHELP and the Student Loan Community (Pentangle)

• Trade associations (CBA, EFC, NCHELP, SLSA) and
  Sallie Mae
• Reauthorization Recommendations submitted to
  House, ED, and Senate
• Recommendations listed on NCHELP Web site at
  www.nchelp.org

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NCHELP and the Coalition for Better Student Loans
(CBSL)

• Started with some initial discussions on
  repayment terms for students just entering the
  workforce, led by NAICU
• Pentangle joins with school groups and CPA for
  joint proposals

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NCHELP and other collaborative efforts

• First Annual Conference on Technology and
  Standards, sponsored by CBA, EFC, NCHELP, and
  PESC held May 2004
• Joint letters to the Hill
• National Default Prevention Conference

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Coalition for Better Student Loans

• ACE
• AAU
• CPA
• CBA
• EFC

• NAICU
• NASULGC
• NASFAA
• NCHELP
• Sallie Mae

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NCHELP.ORG

• E-Library
• Committee SharePoint pages
• Search Capability
• Initiatives
• Electronic Standards Issues Log
• CommonLine Code Database

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E-Library

• Morning Briefing
• Presentations
• Reference Materials
• Regulations Federal Registers
• Reports Testimonies
• Software Tools
• Training Modules

• Common Manual
• Dear Partner Letters
• Forms
• Higher Education Research
• Laws
• Legal Proceedings
• Manuals, Guides, Documentation Information

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Committee SharePoint Pages

• Allows flexibility in committee pages while
  maintaining design integrity
• Protects certain content by user permissions
• Private area for working documents

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Search Capability

• Search the entire site by keyword(s) from any
  page in the site
• Search the section that you are in by keyword(s)
• Site indexed weekly

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Initiatives Section

• Reauthorization
• Meteor Project
• Common Review Initiative
• EDs Lender Reporting System
• Policies/Questions Regarding September 11 Attacks

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Electronic Standards Issues Log

• A record of issues reported through the online
  issue reporting process regarding the CommonLine
  and CAM (Common Account Maintenance)
  documentation.
• Searchable by issue number, keyword(s),
  Version(s) affected, or submitters name

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CommonLine Code Database

• The repository of CommonLine Codes.  It contains
  Alternative Loan Program Codes, Guarantor Codes
  for FFELP and non-FFELP Loans, as well as Service
  Provider codes.
• Searchable by Provider, Code, Name, and/or Code
  Type

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Listserves

• NCHELP oversees 36 separate lists
• Committees and Advisory Teams
• Workgroups
• Friends of the List

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Questions?
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