Lieutenant Governor Steele and Sallie Mae CEO to Announce New Maryland Program for Teachers, Nurses

Lieutenant Governor Steele and Sallie Mae CEO to Announce New Maryland Program for Teachers, Nurses

WHAT: Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele (R-MD) will join Sallie Mae
Vice Chairman and CEO Tim Fitzpatrick to launch a new initiative
designed to attract and retain teachers and nurses in the State of
Maryland.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030617/SLMLOGO-a )

WHO: -- Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele
-- Sallie Mae Vice Chairman and CEO Tim Fitzpatrick
-- Dr. Calvin Burnett, Secretary, Maryland Higher Education
Commission
-- Dr. David Ramsay, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore
-- Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean for the
University of Maryland School of Nursing, University of
Maryland, Baltimore
-- Nursing and teaching students

WHERE: University of Maryland, School of Nursing
655 West Lombard Street
Baltimore

WHEN: Sept. 8, 2005
2:15 p.m.

WHY: States across the nation are grappling with how to attract and
retain qualified teachers and nurses. This announcement will
highlight a new program to lower the cost of higher education for
teachers and nurses and to keep these important professionals in
Maryland.

SLM Corporation (NYSE:SLM), commonly known as Sallie Mae, is the nation's No. 1 paying-for-college company, managing more than $116 billion in student loans for 8 million borrowers. Sallie Mae was originally created in 1972 as a government-sponsored entity (GSE) and terminated its corporate ties to the federal government in 2004. The company remains the country's largest originator of federally insured student loans. Through its specialized subsidiaries and divisions, Sallie Mae also provides debt management services as well as business and technical products to a range of business clients, including colleges, universities and loan guarantors. More information is available at http://www.salliemae.com/. SLM Corporation and its subsidiaries are not sponsored by or agencies of the United States of America.

CONTACT: Martha Holler of Sallie Mae, +1-703-984-5178, martha.holler@salliemae.com.

PRNewswire -- Sept. 2

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