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In Fight to Lower Tuition, Small Universities May Be Harmed
25 June 08 03:43 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some small U.S. colleges and universities are concerned that they may be the target of a new bill that would force schools with multi -billion dollar endowments, like Harvard , to reduce their tuition costs, and place other high-tuition institutions without Read More...

Filed under: Bard College, Bates College, Buck McKeon, college, college loans, college wall of shame, college watch list, Department of Education, Edward Kennedy, financial aid, Harvard, Higher Education Act, Loans, NextStudent, Oliver Staley, reauthorized Higher Education Act, Rep. Buck McKeon, Sen. Edward Kennedy, skyrocketing tuition, student loans, tuition, wall of shame

Harvard Professor Urges Students to Consider Public Service Over Wall Street
25 June 08 12:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 6 Comments   

A Harvard University education professor is challenging undergraduates at elite colleges to forgo high-paying consulting and finance jobs, for careers in public service. The professor, Howard Gardner , is leading seminars at Harvard and, Amherst College Read More...

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Laptop Bans by College Professors May Improve Class Discussions
19 June 08 02:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some professors at the nation’s most prominent law schools are resorting to classroom laptop bans to help reengage law students in lectures and discussions, and, despite students’ claims that the anti-laptop policies deny them a proper education, professors Read More...

Filed under: Andrea Foster, Blackberry, Censorship, college, college loans, financial aid, Florida International University, Georgetown, Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard, Harvard Business School, iPhone, laptop, laptop ban, NextStudent, student loans, tuition, University of Michigan, University of Michigan Law School, University of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Law School

Oxford to Raise $2.5 Billion to Compete with U.S. Ivy Leagues
02 June 08 07:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an effort to keep up its better-funded Ivy League competition in the United States, the University of Oxford in London has embarked on the largest fundraising campaign in European academic history, with a fundraising goal of $2.5 billion. Read More...

Filed under: Alan Smithers, Cambridge, Chris Patten, Christian Science Monitor, college loans, CS Monitor, endowment, financial aid, funding, fundraising, Gregory Hayman, Harvard, Ivy League, Mark Rice-Oxley, NextStudent, Oxford, Princeton, student loans, Sutton Trust, tuition, U.K., United Kingdom, University of Buckingham, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Yale

Controversial Saudi Prince Funds Islamic Centers Abroad
13 May 08 04:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud, a member of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family, has endowed $31 million to Britain’s Cambridge and Edinburgh universities to create research centers devoted to Islamic studies. The two academic centers will focus Read More...

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Stanford School of Medicine Won't Follow Harvard's or Yale's Financial Aid Initiatives
10 May 08 11:04 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at the Stanford School of Medicine will not be offered the same type of tuition breaks students attending rival medical schools Harvard and Yale will see next year. Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine recently announced they Read More...

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Elite Korean Schools Prep Students for American Ivy Leagues
10 May 08 10:11 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

South Korea has some 103,000 students studying at American colleges and universities, outnumbered only by students from India and China, nations which have more than 20 times the population of South Korea, writes Sam Dillon of The New York Times (“ Elite Read More...

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The New Financial Aid Landscape
26 April 08 12:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Even as the media has been drawn in recent months to the looming student loan availability crisis, many of the country’s top colleges and universities have been revamping their financial aid programs to better assist parents and students in covering their college costs. Read More...

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Malls and Retail Stores a No-Go for Depressed Shoppers
16 February 08 06:33 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Signs of depression: Loss of appetite Loss of interest in daily activities Loss of energy Hopelessness Self-loathing Recommendations for treatment: Don’t go shopping. Primed for Sadness, People Spend More A recent research experiment shows that people Read More...

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Harvard’s Aid to Middle-Class Families a Signal for Change
03 January 08 03:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In December Harvard University announced it would begin offering increased financial aid to students of middle and upper-middle class families. Those families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 will only have to pay about 10 percent of their income, Read More...

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