COMMON REVIEW INITIATIVE

Overview

The Common Review Initiative (CRI) is a U.S. Department of Education-approved lender program review process where participating guarantors cooperate to conduct reviews by sharing staff and costs while using common review procedures. CRI focuses on conducting comprehensive reviews using “best practices,” and serves trading partners by eliminating redundant guarantor reviews.

Leaders/Officers

The CRI Oversight and Administration Council governs the CRI. Each participating guarantor has a voting representative on the Council. NCHER and the U.S. Department of Education are represented on the Council in a non-voting role. The following individuals were elected by the CRI Council to lead the CRI effort:

 

Chair

Amy Steinbrink
Manager, Program Review
GLHEGC
Phone: (800) 916-3034
asteinbrink@glhec.org

Secretary

Bill Kohl
VP Portfolio Management
NSLP
Phone: (402) 479-6834
billk@nslp.org

Treasurer

Jennifer Norman
Director, Internal Audit
ECMC
Phone: (916) 526-7294
jnorman@ecmc.org

Member-At-Large

Nancy Wilson
Manager, Corporate Compliance
Trellis Company
Phone: (512) 219-4774
nancy.wilson@trelliscompany.org

CRI Presentations

The CRI Presentations file library below contains presentations from the early days of CRI. 

CRI Review Guide & Worksheets

The CRI Council has formally adopted a CRI Review Guide. This guide supplements the ED Lender/Servicer Review Guide and provides a basis for conducting consistent and high quality reviews by using electronic review worksheets. all materials are included in the CRI Review Guide file library below.

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