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New York AG Examines Colleges’ Relationships With Health Insurers
18 November 08 04:30 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating the relationships between colleges and the health insurance companies they do business with just two years after he launched a similar investigation that uncovered conflicts of interest between some Read More...

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College Employees’ Donations to Obama Far Outweigh Contributions to McCain
24 October 08 10:38 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College employees have given eight times as much money to Barack Obama ’s presidential campaign — $12.2 million — as they have to John McCain ’s — just over $1.5 million, making it the widest gap in donations by academics in the past five presidential Read More...

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Davidson College Sees Positive Results After Eliminating Student Loans
09 July 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Princeton was the first university to completely eliminate student loans from its financial aid packages in 2001, and Harvard’s announcement to follow in Princeton’s footsteps this fall garnered national media attention as no-loan financial aid policies began to turn up across the Ivy League and at other elite schools nationwide. But it’s small, selective, liberal arts Davidson College in North Carolina that’s already seeing results after getting a head start over the rest of the Ivies by doing away with student loans last year. Read More...

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Huge Donation to Go Toward Student Aid at Columbia
17 April 07 07:01 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Though the money will not be donated until after his death, “A $400-million gift pledged to Columbia University on Wednesday by John W. Kluge, a media tycoon, will eventually allow the institution to expand the number of needy undergraduates on full scholarships Read More...

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