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Dorms Add to Community Colleges’ Appeal
14 April 09 04:19 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an attempt to offer a low-cost alternative to college students who typically attend more expensive private and public institutions, community colleges have started building on-campus dorms, a move that may soon alter the commuter culture at such schools. Read More...

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‘Discriminatory’ UC Admissions Policy Angers Asian Community
03 April 09 01:58 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A new University of California admissions policy intended to increase the diversity of the school system’s student body may actually do the opposite, boosting the number of white students while decreasing the size of the Asian population. Read More...

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UC System Considers “Free” Tuition for Lower-Income Families
27 January 09 04:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The University of California is considering a program which would offer certain students free tuition, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ U. of California to Consider Covering Tuition for Families Below State’s Median Income ,” Jan. 22, 2009). Read More...

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Former UC Students Get $33 Million Settlement
07 January 09 04:58 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The University of California school system paid out more than $33 million last month to nearly 35,000 former students after losing a class-action lawsuit over a fee dispute, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports (“ U. of California Pays $33-Million Read More...

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UC System Needs a Boost of Higher-Paying Students
05 January 09 04:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The University of California public school system is considering increasing the number of out-of-state students it accepts in an effort to help UC schools bring in more revenue and offset cuts in state funding, reports the Los Angeles Times (“ UC Officials Read More...

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College Employees’ Donations to Obama Far Outweigh Contributions to McCain
24 October 08 10:38 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College employees have given eight times as much money to Barack Obama ’s presidential campaign — $12.2 million — as they have to John McCain ’s — just over $1.5 million, making it the widest gap in donations by academics in the past five presidential Read More...

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California Legislators Act to Block Administrators From Censoring College Publications
08 August 08 05:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a move that may soon further the free-speech rights of students writing for the state’s college newspapers, California legislators passed a bill on August 5 that would make it unlawful for school administrators to retaliate against college and high school journalism teachers trying to protect their students. Read More...

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Controversial Admissions Policy Proposal Could Shake Up University of California System
21 July 08 03:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

The biggest change in how the University of California system evaluates prospective applicants in 10 years could come from a major administrator-proposed revision to the system’s admissions policy, allowing schools to depend less on test scores and more Read More...

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Students Protest, Struggle to Meet California Schools’ Tuition Increases
23 May 08 09:24 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

For the sixth time in seven years, California’s 670,000 public university students will pay more to attend schools in the University of California and California State University systems, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle (“ UC, CSU Read More...

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$50 Million Given to California Community Colleges to Aid Needy Students
12 May 08 05:30 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In what may be the largest gift ever donated to the nation’s community colleges, the San Francisco–based Bernard Osher Foundation recently announced that it has pledged up to $50 million to help needy students attending California’s two-year institutions. Read More...

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