“Record numbers of students enrolling in college as well as an increasing reliance on student loans to finance the growing cost of college has vaulted student aid into the national spotlight this campaign season. Both presidential campaigns are dedicating an unprecedented amount of time articulating their widely varying policies aimed at making college more affordable. ”You’d be hard-pressed to find any president who’s responded more aggressively on the question of college affordability and college debt than this one,” Obama’s Campaign Policy Director James Kvaal said at NASFAA’s National Conference in July,” University Business reports.

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