Browse by Tags

• AB 1548
• amendment
• Arizona
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Assembly Bill 1548
• Association for Institutional Research
• Barbara Mikulski
• Bard College
• Bates College
• brain cancer
• brain tumor
• Buck McKeon
• bundling
• California
• capital
• chemotherapy
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• college
• College Accreditation
• college affordability
• College Board
• college endowments
• College Funding
• college loans
• College Opportunity and Affordability Act
• college piracy
• college spending
• College Textbook Transparency Act
• college wall of shame
• college watch list
• College watch lists
• Committee on Education and Labor
• Committee on Ways and Means
• Congress
• Consolidation
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation
• CQ Politics
• credit crisis
• credit crunch
• credit unions
• custom textbooks
• customized
• Department of Education
• e-books
• editions
• Education
• education benefits
• Edward Kennedy
• Elia Powers
• faculty
• Federal Family Education Loan Program
• federal student aid
• FFELP
• FinAid
• financial aid
• Fulbright-Hays Act
• FY08 Budget
• George Miller
• glioma
• governor
• graduate school
• H.AMDT.951
• H.R. 4137
• Harvard
• HB 2300
• higher education
• Hispanic-Serving Institutions
• House Bill 2300
• house legislation
• House of Representatives
• House Subcommittee on Higher Education
• HR 4137
• inflation
• Inside Higher Ed
• Next Student
• retail prices
• Rio Salado College
• S 1642
• Sen. Edward Kennedy
• Senate
• Senate Bill 365
• Senate Committee on Health
• Senator Barbara Mikulski
• Senator Edward Kennedy
• shortage
• skyrocketing tuition
• state law
• student financial aid
• student loan availability
• student loan consolidation
• student loans
• study guides
• subprime
• subsidies
• textbook bundles
• textbook costs
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• tuition
• University of Wisconsin
• USC

Unfinished Business: Congress May Break Before Higher-Ed Bills Reviewed
03 July 08 04:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

While Congress is heading home for its annual Fourth of July recess, there are still many higher-education bills and pieces of legislation that need to be addressed before they break, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Higher- Read More...

Filed under: college, college loans, Department of Education, financial aid, Higher Education Act, National Institutes of Health, NextStudent, Pell Grant Increase, student financial aid, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, tuition

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

Higher Education Act Likely to Hold Colleges More Accountable for their Spending
12 June 08 10:53 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Once Congress negotiates the latest reauthorization terms of the Higher Education Act, colleges will likely be required to report to the federal government on at least 300 new topics including tuition increases, transfer-of-credit policies, and file sharing, Read More...

Filed under: Association for Institutional Research, college affordability, college loans, college spending, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Higher Education Act, Judith Eaton, NextStudent, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education

New Senator at the Helm of Higher Education Act Negotiations
03 June 08 04:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sen. Barbara Mikulski , D-Md., will “pinch hit” for Sen. Edward Kennedy , D-Mass. — the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions who is recovering from surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor — in Senate and House negotiations Read More...

Filed under: Barbara Mikulski, brain cancer, brain tumor, chemotherapy, college, College Accreditation, college loans, college piracy, College watch lists, CQ Politics, education benefits, Edward Kennedy, glioma, graduate school, Higher Education Act, House of Representatives, HR 4137, Labor and Pensions, NextStudent, private student loans, radiation, S 1642, Senate, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Senator Edward Kennedy, student loan availability, student loans

Senator Proposes Penalties for Colleges That Hoard Endowment Funds
15 May 08 11:58 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means , Rep. Peter Welch , D-Vermont, proposed restricting IRA rollover contributions to colleges that don’t use their endowments to help low and middle-income students pay Read More...

Filed under: college, college endowments, Committee on Ways and Means, Higher Education Act, house legislation, Internal Revenue Code, IRA, NextStudent, Peter Welch, Representative Peter Welch, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. House of Representatives

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...

Filed under: capital, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, Congress, credit crisis, credit crunch, credit unions, Education, Edward Kennedy, Federal Family Education Loan Program, FFELP, FinAid, financial aid, Higher Education Act, Kennedy, lenders, liquidity, Mark Kantrowitz, Michael Kim, mortgages, NextStudent, nonprofit, Paul Basken, shortage, student loans, subprime, subsidies, UFCU, University Federal Credit Union, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, USC, USC Credit Union, UW Credit Union, UWCU

Congress Joins States and Colleges in Efforts to Reduce Soaring Textbook Costs
03 March 08 07:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

With the average college student now shelling out between $900 and $1,000 each year for textbooks and supplies, according to the College Board ’s latest Trends in College Pricing report, schools, states, and now Congress are getting involved in the crusade Read More...

Filed under: AB 1548, amendment, Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assembly Bill 1548, bundling, California, college, College Board, College Opportunity and Affordability Act, College Textbook Transparency Act, Committee on Education and Labor, Congress, custom textbooks, customized, e-books, editions, Elia Powers, faculty, George Miller, governor, H.AMDT.951, H.R. 4137, HB 2300, Higher Education Act, House Bill 2300, House of Representatives, inflation, Inside Higher Ed, legislation, legislature, marketing, NextStudent, Ohio, Oregon, Pearson Custom Publishing, pilot grant program, pricing, publishers, representative, retail prices, Rio Salado College, Senate Bill 365, state law, student loans, study guides, textbook bundles, textbook costs, textbook prices, textbook rentals, textbooks, Tim Ryan, Trends in College Pricing, U.S. Student Association, University of Virginia, Washington

Politicians Battle to Help College Students
20 June 07 05:31 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The last several years we have witnessed both the democrats and the republicans warring over the best way to make college more affordable for students. Often bills sponsored by one party in the House of Representatives would pass there, only to fail in Read More...

Filed under: Higher Education Act, NextStudent, Pell Grant Legislation

Teacher Prep Strategies Discussed by Congress
21 May 07 10:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Apparently, preparing quality teachers is something that Congress considers very important, as “Last year alone, Congress appropriated $2.89 billion through the No Child Left Behind Act and $59.9 million through the Higher Education Act to fund teacher Read More...

Filed under: Higher Education Act, House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness, NextStudent, No Child Left Behind Act

International Affairs for College Students?
30 March 07 10:33 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

But not like you think. I am not talking about long-distance relationships, at least not in the dating sense. However, if the National Academies’ National Research Council has its way, more and more college students will be going international in the Read More...

Filed under: Fulbright-Hays Act, Higher Education Act, National Academies' National Research Council, NextStudent

Budget Picture FY08
07 February 07 08:43 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As I reported earlier this week, President Bush released his FY08 Budget on Monday, Feb. 5, 2007. And although it promises to increase the maximum Pell Grant to $4,600 this year up to $5,400 by 2012, he will use funds from other grants for low-income Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, financial aid, FY08 Budget, Higher Education Act, Next Student, NextStudent, Pell Grant, student loan consolidation, student loans

U.S. Rep. Ruben E. Hinojosa, D-Texas, to Lead U.S. House’s Higher-Education Panel
23 January 07 04:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

According to an article titled “Texas Democrat Will Lead U.S. House’s Higher-Education Panel,” written by Kelly Field that appeared in the Jan. 19, 2006 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education , “one of the chief Congressional champions of higher-education Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, federal student aid, financial aid, higher education, Higher Education Act, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Next Student, NextStudent, student loan consolidation, student loans