Credit unions can help their employees via targeted financial education and repayment assistance, and potentially strengthen SEG relationships, with new benefits tied to student loans.

Five can’t-miss data points this week on CreditUnions.com.

Student lending at credit unions was up 13.7% in third quarter 2017.

What are the key factors that credit unions must consider when implementing a private student lending program or managing an existing one?

The hottest employee benefit of 2017 could be a new opportunity for credit unions.

In 2008, credit unions began dipping their toes into what many considered to be the treacherous waters of private student lending. More than nine years later, credit unions are charting a positive course.

The millennial disposition toward education and the student loan debt often associated with it — and how credit unions can help them overcome it all.

What recent college grads say about student debt, what they needed at age 18, and how they chose their bank or credit union.

Enrollment in college and the amount of student loan debt are at an all-time high. See where two millennials at the University of South Carolina fall into the student debt narrative.

30% of college students surveyed for a LendEDU study said they used student loan money for spring break. That’s their business … and their burden.