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Campuses Draw Vets as New GI Bill Benefits Kick In
30 December 08 04:26 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

With the “21st Century GI Bill” set to take full effect in August 2009, colleges and universities throughout the country are preparing to receive the large numbers of veterans that will soon be transitioning from soldiers to students, reports The Detroit Read More...

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VA Keeps Processing of New GI Bill Education Benefits In-House
10 November 08 01:10 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The education benefits of the new GI Bill — which will provide eligible veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with four years of college funding — will be processed in-house by the Department of Veterans Affairs and not outsourced to a private Read More...

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Undocumented Students in Arizona Buckle Under Higher College Costs, Leave School
25 August 08 05:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 4 Comments   

Unable to afford the out-of-state tuition fees that Arizona state law requires non-legal U.S. citizens to pay, nearly 5,000 undocumented college students have dropped out of school over the last year, according to an article in the Arizona Daily Star Read More...

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Western Kentucky University Students to See 9-Percent Jump in Tuition
01 May 08 04:50 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at Western Kentucky University will see higher tuition costs after the school’s board of regents approved a 9-percent tuition hike on April 25, for the 2008–09 academic year. Under the new tuition rate, in-state undergraduate tuition will increase Read More...

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Limbo for Undocumented Students
22 May 07 09:28 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

There has been a lot in the news lately about immigration legislation, which also extends to college students. There is a proposed act called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM, that would help undocumented minors who Read More...

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Should Undocumented U.S. Residents be Eligible for In-State Tuition Rates?
02 March 07 06:55 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In November 2006 the state of Arizona passed Proposition 300 that rendered “undocumented Arizona students ineligible for in-state tuition rates or state scholarships,” according to an article written by Elizabeth Redden titled “An In-State Tuition Debate,” Read More...

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