“A Powerful Promise” Provides an Inside Look at the Structure of Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) and Their Impact on Students and College Enrollment   Bloomington, Ind., – A new book entitled “A Powerful Promise: The Ivy League Inspired Secret Improving Access and Recruitment at Colleges Today,” serves as a roadmap to understanding how both […]

Improve Access and Recruitment on your Campus with the Ivy League Inspired Secret   A new book about Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) gives readers an insider’s look at how one tool is changing the higher education landscape. “A Powerful Promise: The Ivy League Inspired Secret Improving Access and Recruitment at Colleges Today” is a […]

These Ardeo partners have been celebrating enrollment increases in fall 2020 – some record-breaking, others modest – but all bucking this year’s national average enrollment decline of 4.4% reported by The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. A big congratulations to all our partners, listed or not, who are celebrating a successful Fall 2020. (If you’re […]

Ardeo Education Solutions is celebrating its second year in a row as an honoree on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing private companies in America. Ardeo is a mission-driven public benefit company that was also named this year to the Center for Companies that Care Honor Roll and among the Best Places to Work in Bloomington, […]

College can be a risky investment, a point Beth Akers, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow, makes in her report, “Should College Come with a Money-Back Guarantee?” In a recent Washington Post opinion piece, Akers makes the case for focusing on mitigating the financial risks associated with attending college, rather than reducing cost. Higher education is stuck […]

Ardeo Education Solutions, formerly known as LRAP Association, made the annual Inc. magazine list of fastest-growing private companies in America. Ardeo qualified for the Inc. 5000 list with a growth of 189 percent from 2015 to 2018 – ranking No. 2,123 on its 2019 list. “We have a good team and we are proud of […]

Montreat College (Montreat, NC) is joining a growing group of colleges and universities who are making a powerful promise to future students and families: if a graduate’s income is below $43,000 per year, an innovative new program will help them repay their student (and parent) loans until annual income meets the threshold, or the loans […]

We are proud to announce that MidAmerica Nazarene University (Olathe, KS) will now provide a student (and parent) Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) for all new incoming freshmen and transfer students via the “Pioneer Pledge”. Through the Pioneer Pledge, if a student’s income after graduation is less than $43,000 per year, the program provides financial […]

Whenever we partner with a campus, we like to help them get the word out about the good they are doing for their students and families; good that helps eliminate fear of student loan debt. We do that in some cases by calling students and families for the schools to let them know about the […]

Based in Philippi, West Virginia, Alderson Broaddus University’s LRAP is the first of its kind in that state. The AB Advantage program is offered to all members of the incoming class, which makes it a powerful way for the school to add to their “distinctives”.