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• The lucrative business of student loans
  A scandal over inappropriate relationships between colleges and financial aid lenders has many higher ed institutions examining their lending practices.9:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Eileen O'Leary: Director of Student Aid and Finance at Stonehill College in Easton Massachusetts. She is also former president of the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (MASFAA).
  Robert Shireman: Executive director of Project on Student Debt. He currently serves as a congressional appointee to the Federal Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance.
  Michael Dannenberg: Director of the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation.
  More from MPR
  Ties between student loan vendors and colleges -- too cozy? (04/12/2007)
  Resources
  About Eileen O'Leary
  Project on Student Debt
  Institute for College Access and Success
  About Michael Dannenberg
• Return of the elm tree
  A local landscaper has made it his mission to return elms to places where Dutch elm disease has taken a severe toll on the trees. He joins Midmorning to talk about his efforts to "re-elm" the Twin Cities.10:06 a.m.
  Guests
  Bob Harvey: Minneapolis landscape designer and the owner of Edelweiss Design.
  Resources
  Edelweiss Design
  Elmcare.com
  The National Arbor Day Foundation

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