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As Food Prices Rise, Cost of Campus Meal Plans Going Up
09 May 08 06:05 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College students may see a sharp spike in the cost of their on-campus meal plans this fall due to rising food prices. Several schools have already announced that they intend to increase their meal-plan prices next year, and it’s likely that many more schools will follow. Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, Clemson, college, college loans, costs, dining halls, dining services, dorm life, eating, economy, food, food service, Louisiana State University, marketing, meal plans, NextStudent, Ohio University, on-campus, pizza, prices, revenue, room and board, student life, student loans, trays, University of Miami, Western Washington University

Lowest-Income Students Need More Pell Aid, Authors of New Report Find
05 May 08 04:35 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To help low-income students attend college, larger Pell Grants should be awarded to the most “financially needy” college students, according to a new report (“ Window of Opportunity: Targeting Federal Grant Aid to Students With the Lowest Incomes ”). Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, credit crunch, EFC, expected family contribution, financial aid, grants, IHEP, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Low-Income Students, Need-Based Aid, NextStudent, Pell Grant, Pell Grants, Sen. Edward Kennedy, student loans, U.S. Senate

Fewer Foreign Students Seeking Advanced Degrees in the U.S.
16 April 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The growth rate of international students studying at American colleges and universities has slowed, despite an increase in foreign applications to U.S. educational institutions for the third straight year in a row, according to a recent survey. The 2008 Read More...

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Study: College Courses Taught by Part-Time Faculty Lead to High Freshman Dropout Rates
15 April 08 07:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College freshmen are more likely to drop out of school before their sophomore year when they take introductory-level courses taught by part-time, rather than full-time instructors, a recent study suggests. Increasingly, part-time and adjunct instructors Read More...

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Credit Unions Offer Themselves as Partial Solution to Looming Student Loan Crisis
12 April 08 11:19 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In the last six months alone, since legislators eliminated over $21 billion in subsidies to student loan lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program, at least 44 FFELP lenders have stopped originating federal student loans. This exodus of lenders Read More...

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Study Abroad Charges Challenged in Lawsuit
03 March 08 02:04 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

How much college students are required to pay for their study-abroad programs could hang in the balance of a recent lawsuit brought by a father against his daughter’s school. The suit, reported by Karin Fischer in The Chronicle of Higher Education , challenges Read More...

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College Presidents’ Salaries Not-So-Slowly Sliding Up the Pay Scale
21 November 07 04:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

It costs a lot of money to go to college. It costs even more money to run a college. And it’s costing increasingly more money to pay college and university presidents’ salaries and compensation packages, with many reaching the million-dollar mark. According Read More...

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