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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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