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CUNY Wants to Be a Model for Community College Education
28 January 09 04:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The City University of New York school system hopes to open a “college of the future” that would limit enrollment to under 5,000 students, offer degrees or certificates only in fields with promising job growth, and serve as a model for community colleges Read More...

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Program to Offer NY Students Low-Cost College Loans
17 December 08 04:36 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Despite New York’s $15 billion budget deficit, Gov. David Paterson announced he is creating a student loan program that would allow New York college students to borrow $350 million in low-cost private student loans directly from the state, reports The Read More...

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New York May Soon Have Its Own Low-Interest Student Loan Program
23 July 08 12:33 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

New York is one of the few states in the country where college students do not have access to a low-interest, state-backed student loan program, according to a report by the New York State Commission on Higher Education (“ Final Report of Findings and Read More...

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Labor Board Rules That Certain Graduate Students Can Unionize
12 July 07 03:22 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Two recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board have determined that graduate students who work at private nonprofit research foundations attached to public universities have the right to unionize, reports John Gravois in The Chronicle of Higher Read More...

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