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Colleges Step Up, Help Students With Extra Financial Aid
08 January 09 04:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

If recent data is any indication, families are struggling to come up with the cash they need to send their children to college, and schools across the country are doing something to help those who’ve come up short, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education Read More...

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FBI Investigates California College That Overpaid Financial Aid to Some Students, Underpaid Others
13 October 08 06:32 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

A California community college is being investigated by the FBI and the Department of Education for overpaying students more than $327,000 in financial aid during the 2005–06 school year, reports the Contra Costa Times (“ Berkeley City College Overpaid Read More...

Filed under: Berkeley City College, college loans, community college, Contra Costa Times, Department of Education, FBI, financial aid, financial aid directors, NextStudent, Pell Grant recipients, Pell Grants, Robert Vergas, student loans

Sex Offenders May Lose Pell Grant Eligibility Under Revised Higher Education Act
04 August 08 04:49 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Starting July 1, 2009, sex offenders confined in treatment centers throughout the country may no longer be eligible to receive need-based federal Pell Grants , under a new provision of the reauthorized Higher Education Act, according to an article in Read More...

Filed under: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, AP, Associated Press, college loans, Congress, financial aid, grant aid, higher education, Michael Macleod-Ball, NextStudent, Pell Grants, President Bush, Ric Keller, sex offenders, Stephanie Babyak, student loans, U.S. Department of Education

College Offers Students a No-Cost, No-Student-Loan Education With Funds From Its $1.1 Billion Endowment
22 July 08 03:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Berea College is drawing the attention of lawmakers for its no-frills approach to education and its free tuition policy. The private Kentucky college — founded 150 years ago to educate freed slaves and “poor white mountaineers” — accepts only applicants 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...

Filed under: biomedical research funding, college, college loans, David Obey, financial aid, House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, National Institutes of Health, NextStudent, NIH, oil drilling expansion, Pell Grants, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, U.S House of Representatives

Lowest-Income Students Need More Pell Aid, Authors of New Report Find
05 May 08 04:35 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To help low-income students attend college, larger Pell Grants should be awarded to the most “financially needy” college students, according to a new report (“ Window of Opportunity: Targeting Federal Grant Aid to Students With the Lowest Incomes ”). Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, credit crunch, EFC, expected family contribution, financial aid, grants, IHEP, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Low-Income Students, Need-Based Aid, NextStudent, Pell Grant, Pell Grants, Sen. Edward Kennedy, student loans, U.S. Senate

Financial Aid Wars: Democrats and Republicans Try to Outdo Each Other
16 February 07 04:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

It has been the hot topic in the news for the past couple months and on my blog, so we all should know by now that the 110th Congress is controlled by the Democrats. Why is that big news? Because 2007 is the first year the Democrats have controlled the Read More...

Filed under: federal student loans, financial aid, higher education, NextStudent, Pell Grants, PLUS Loans, Postsecondary Education, student loan consolidation

Education and the Budget Proposal for FY08
05 February 07 09:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Good news for the Department of Education, as it looks like the White House is set to increase the Pell Grant even more than the $260 proposed by the Democrat’s “Joint Funding Resolution” that I reported on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007. According to a briefing Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, Department of Education, financial aid, Next Student, NextStudent, Pell Grants, student loan consolidation, student loans

2007 Budget Update
01 February 07 10:45 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

It looks like Pell Grants are going to be getting the financial face-lift about which people have been buzzing on Capitol Hill. According to a Jan. 31, 2007 article by Doug Lederman titled “A Pleasant Budget Surprise” that appeared in Inside Higher Ed Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, Consolidation, financial aid, Low-Income Students, Next Student, NextStudent, Pell Grants, student loan consolidation, student loans

Hope On The Horizon: Student Debt Relief Act in Senate
24 January 07 08:47 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

I have posted blogs in the past several weeks regarding states that are implementing college financial aid programs at the community college or public college level, making education an affordable reality for lower-income students. Just yesterday a major Read More...

Filed under: College Funding, College Tuition, College Tuition Tax Deduction, Consolidation, financial aid, higher education, Interest Rates, Loan Forgiveness, Low-Income Students, Next Student, NextStudent, Origination Fees, Pell Grants, Reconsolidation, student debt, Student Debt Relief Act, student loan consolidation, student loans

Proposed Law Opens Door to Higher Education for Low-Income Students
24 January 07 03:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a post in December I commented on how many states and even the federal government is beginning to set up programs and legislation that favors higher education opportunities for lower-income students. A case in point is the $4,000 college tuition deduction Read More...

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