The State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas (SOSA) annual report serves as a reference for colleges, universities, and policymakers, and provides a comparison [...]

Does maintaining a high level of customer service seem harder than it should? Do you get too many students wanting to “speak to the [...]

There is growing recognition that the interplay of student collegiate finances and academic performance influences key student outcomes like retention and graduation. Students experiencing [...]

Trellis’ Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS) seeks to document the financial well-being of post-secondary students and provide institutions with a detailed profile of the [...]

In January 2017, Trellis launched a nine-month study aimed at better understanding the non-academic challenges that postsecondary students face and the ways they try [...]

The rising cost of attending college creates a financial challenge for most students, many of whom must take out student loans to pursue their [...]

To manage their loans effectively, U.S. postsecondary student loan borrowers must make a variety of important decisions that require significant knowledge and financial skills [...]

Federal law requires colleges to provide student loan counseling to their federal student loan borrowers, which colleges can do by directing their students to [...]

Legally mandated student loan entrance counseling attempts to prepare first-time borrowers of federal student loans for this challenge; yet, researchers hypothesized that the online [...]

This report (the first in a series of five) explores congressional efforts to mitigate that risk and encourage informed borrowing by enacting statutes related [...]