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  1. RT@vittana: After 1.7 Million votes, Orrick client Vittana named #1 Game Changer in Philanthropy by HuffPo readers! http://bit.ly/1cxxEl
  2. Virgin Money exits peer to peer student lending and servicing. Some blame company itself, not its P2P model: http://bit.ly/3AYMuz
  3. Heads up, private student lenders. Sen. Sherrod Brown proposes private student loan ombudsman be established at Treas. http://bit.ly/1bSprx
  4. Sioux Falls Argus Leader interviews Vikram Pandit, elicits comments on Citi's Student Loan Corporation: http://bit.ly/3dA2mT
  5. Students report borrower abuse of federal financial aid: http://bit.ly/4GEoki Financial aid officials need affirmative clawback powers.
  6. Tim Ranzetta borrows from Truth In Lending Act to propose "Truth in Educating" disclosures. http://bit.ly/1tfuGJ Hope it happens.
  7. October 15 reconciliation deadline not happening for House & Senate student loan bills. New hope for FFELP? http://bit.ly/z8lSb
  8. RT@Ventureneer- tough but intriguing thoughts by Steve Blank on family backgrounds of successful entrepreneurs: http://bit.ly/15Lt9n
  9. WSJ article on House's passage of SAFRA conflates private lenders in FFELP with private student loan lenders: http://tiny.cc/WIkko
  10. Kiplinger "infographic" contains broad state-by-state education debt and income data. Worth reading (RT@JimOlick): http://tiny.cc/rj91Y
  11. I can't be the first to tweet this- new CBO scoring gives greater advantage to Obama-Miller student loan plan: http://tiny.cc/JWeDJ
  12. Problem that still needs solving: financial aid for international graduate students. http://tiny.cc/sbg0j (Council of Graduate Schools)
  13. Project on Student Debt quantifies students not using full Stafford eligibility before borrowing with private loans: http://tiny.cc/IF4JR
  14. Following up, SLA Blog has more information on BridgeSpan's SafeStart product, now rolling out state by state: http://tiny.cc/uvWcr
  15. A note on business education and financial engineering - a little colorful, but I couldn't help myself. http://tiny.cc/MzVPP
  16. More on proposed private student loan debt swap: S1541 sunsets July 2011; with libor/prime bases artificially low, maybe swaps better later.
  17. Had to Tweet this - Inside Higher Ed let me comment on new product SafeStart by BridgeSpan Financial: http://tiny.cc/f8V1R
  18. Student Lending Analytics discusses the new "school as lender"; compares a few college emergency loan programs: http://tiny.cc/D4iGt
  19. Sen. Sherrod Brown proposes “debt swap”; private student loan borrowers to refinance with unsubsidized Stafford loans: http://tiny.cc/Jqxef
  20. International student lender Vittana, an Orrick client, is featured in the Seattle Times. Way to go, @kushalc! http://tiny.cc/WuOV1