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New Higher-Ed Bill May Get Through Congress This Week
30 July 08 06:54 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Five years overdue, the House and the Senate may finally reach a compromise on the re-authorized Higher Education Act, the law that predominantly governs student aid, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ With Compromises, Higher-Ed Read More...

Filed under: college loans, Congress, education committee, graduate education, grants, Higher Education Act Reauthorization, historically black institutions, NextStudent, predominantly black institutions, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Provision of Higher Education Act May Force Schools to Spy on Online Students
28 July 08 09:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Language in the bill, currently before Congress, to re-authorize the Higher Education Act could lead distance-learning institutions to use home-monitoring devices to police their students who take courses online, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Colorado Community Colleges Online, Congress, distance learning, Excelsior College, higher education, Higher Education Act, home monitoring, home monitoring devices, internet classes, John Ebersole, NextStudent, online classes, online classwork, online courses, online degrees, online institutions, online learning, online schools, Postsecondary Education, private student loans, reauthorization, Rhonda Epper, student loans, test taking, The Chronicle of Higher Education, webcams

Despite Greater Benefits Under New GI Bill, Vets May Still Opt for Trade Schools, Community Colleges
25 July 08 03:38 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Recently published research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that approximately 57 percent of those veterans who used their GI Bill benefits in fiscal year 2007 attended either community colleges or for-profit institutions. Veterans Read More...

Filed under: American InterContinental University, college, college aid, College Financial Aid, college student loan, College Student Loans, College Tuition, financial aid, GI Bill, Kelly Field, NextStudent, student loan, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tidewater Community College, tuition, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, University of Maryland

Colleges and Universities to Subsidize Unpaid Internships
23 July 08 03:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some small, private schools are beginning to offer internship grants to students who would otherwise have been unable to accept an unpaid or low-paying intern position, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Subsidizing the Internship Read More...

Filed under: American University, Austin College, Brain Gain program, Butler University, college, college loans, College Tuition, Connecticut College, financial aid, grants, internship grants, Internships, Loans, Mark Oldman, NextStudent, Sara Lipka, Smith College, student loans, subsidized internships, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Vault, tuition, Whitman College

Interest in Online Courses Rising as Gas Remains Above $4 Per Gallon
15 July 08 03:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at many colleges are opting for online courses this summer in an attempt to save money on gas, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Gas Prices Drive Students to Online Courses ,” July 8, 2008). "All across the country, Read More...

Filed under: Brevard Community College, College Financial Aid, college loans, College Student Loans, College Tuition, expensive gas, financial aid, Harrisburg Area Community College, high cost of gas, Jeffrey Young, NextStudent, Northampton Community College, online classes, online college, online college courses, rising gas prices, student loans, Tennessee Board of Regents, The Chronicle of Higher Education, tuition, University of Illinois

Club Ed: University With Four-Star Service Caters to Students
08 July 08 05:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

President of North Carolina’s High Point University , Nido R. Qubein , who is also a motivational speaker and businessman, believes that students should be treated like customers and should enjoy obtaining their education, according to an article in The Read More...

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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...

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House Stalls Spending Bill That Would Boost Pell Grants, Biomedical Research
27 June 08 02:31 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A proposed spending bill that would raise Pell Grant award amounts and increase funding for the National Institutes of Health was delayed indefinitely Thursday after Democrats and Republicans began squabbling over the bill’s provisions, according to The Read More...

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Honesty Not Their Policy: Science Fraud at Universities Common, Ignored
24 June 08 04:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

“Surprisingly common but underreported” is how a report published in the journal Nature characterizes acts of scientific fraud at the nation’s universities, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Science Fraud at Universities Read More...

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States Increase Financial Aid Funding for Student Loans and Grants
23 June 08 02:29 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

State spending on financial aid for undergraduates increased 6 percent or by a total of $9.3 billion in 2006-07 academic year, after growth slowed to 3.4 percent during the 2005–06 academic year, according to a recent report by the National Association Read More...

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Community Colleges Want to Control How Much Certain Students Can Borrow in Student Loans
20 June 08 04:54 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Concerned that some students at two-year schools may borrow more in federal student loans than they can afford to repay, community college officials want the federal government to give community colleges control over how much their students can borrow Read More...

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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

India Engineering Institute Bans Foreign Internships to Help Retain Graduates
04 June 08 01:19 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Despite producing approximately 240,000 engineering graduates every year, institutes of higher education in India graduate less than 1,000 engineering Ph.D.’s annually, because a vast majority of these students enroll in advanced degree programs in the Read More...

Filed under: Ashok Misra, college, college loans, engineering graduate schools, engineering majors, Georgia Institute of Technology, Grad PLUS loans, Indian Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Bombay, Institute of Technology Mumbai, NextStudent, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Southern California

University of Wisconsin Students Win $10K in Business Plan Competition
28 May 08 06:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sky Vegetables — the brainchild of University of Wisconsin-Madison business students Keith Agoada and Troy Vosseller — was the grand prize winning idea of the school’s 2008 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition , according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

Filed under: agriculture, business school, California agriculture, carbon emissions, college MBA, G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition, hydroponic agriculture, hydroponic greenhouses, Keith Agoada, NextStudent, Sky Vegetables, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Troy Vosseller, University of California Wisonsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Govenor's Business Plan Contest

Education Reforms Could Help High School Students Better Prepare for College
21 May 08 10:46 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Combining the core academic methods of college preparatory schools with the teaching strategies used by career- and technical-education programs, could better prepare many high school students to graduate ready for college or a career, according to a Read More...

Filed under: career programs, college loans, college preparatory schools, high school, NextStudent, Southern Regional Education Board, SREB, student loans, technical education programs, technical jobs, The Chronicle of Higher Education