NATIONAL DEFAULT PREVENTION DAY

August 1, 2002
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

AGENDA

· Welcome and Opening Remarks

- U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid

· "Default Prevention through Innovation and Partnership." An exchange of default prevention ideas involving early intervention strategies, cohort default rate reduction, partnership, and media relations.

- Regional Guarantor Representative

· "Consumer Credit Planning." Budgeting skills that may be used by postsecondary institutions to teach students basic strategies for managing their finances will be discussed. Learn about various strategies that will help students avoid default and other pitfalls that result from incurring unnecessary or excessive debt.

- Consumer Credit Representative

· "A Default Management Overview." What can we do for you? Late stage delinquency assistance, a default management tool kit, and software to help manage your defaults.

- U.S. Department of Education, Direct Loan Schools Relations and Case Management and Oversight Division

· "The Best Practices." Learn from schools who have successfully lowered their cohort default rates. You can do it too!

- Regional School Representative

· "Cohort Default Rates - A Path to Successful Data Management." How can you change the data when its not what's you think it is supposed to be! Learn what resources and processes you can use to enhance the accuracy of the data included in your institution's cohort default rate calculation.

- U.S. Department of Education, Default Management

· Questions, Answers, and Closing Remarks

Default Prevention: You are the Key!