For 26 years, Indiana Secondary Market for Education Loans, Inc. (ISM) has been working to improve opportunities for Indiana citizens to obtain a postsecondary education. Working with Indiana schools and financial institutions, ISM played a leading role in increasing borrower benefits for Indiana students and families.
This is not the first time ISM’s presence in the Indiana education finance arena has helped Hoosiers get an education. In cooperation with the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, ISM funds E-Transcript© , an effort to create a paperless transcript exchange process between Indiana high schools and postsecondary institutions. ISM also is helping fund the Indiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathetmatics education project (STEM) and a pilot project that establishes a mentoring program for middle school students. Since its founding in 1980, Indiana citizens have been the beneficiary of over $54 million in education projects funded by ISM.