NASFAA's Off the Cuff Podcast
Hosted by Melanie and Hugh and Karen and Maria and Beth and David and Sarah · NASFAA
4.7from 113 ratings
- 320
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 113
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About NASFAA's Off the Cuff Podcast
Hosted by NASFAA staff, this podcast offers an unscripted view of hot financial aid and higher education-related topics. The hosts discuss what's happening inside the Beltway to give you an insider's perspective.
- Publisher
- NASFAA
- Category
- education · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Dec 2017
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 320 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Making Sense of the New Cohort Default Rate
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Live From FSA, It's the 2027-28 FAFSA
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Putting the Financial Aid Office at the Center of Institutional Conversations
Inside a recent episode
Making Sense of the New Cohort Default Rate
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They call this the nonpayment rate. And the most recent data that the department put out showed that borrowers from 2,100 schools had non-payment rates of 25% or higher. So that's definitely concerning. And we also know that the overall default rate, so CDR is measuring default in those first three years of repayment. That's not the only time you can default. You can default at any time during your loan repayment. And so that overall default rate, which measures the people who are in the CDR cohort, as well as anyone who's in repayment, that's closer to 20%. So one in five borrowers are in default. […]
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- Kerline Eglaus
- Daniel Matamoros
- Kochie
- Nalia
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 84 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 29 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 78
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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Who hosts NASFAA's Off the Cuff Podcast?
Melanie and Hugh and Karen and Maria and Beth and David and Sarah host the show. Published by NASFAA.
How often do new episodes come out?
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