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Colleges Receive $70 Million in Anonymous Donations
29 April 09 03:21 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

An anonymous donor is playing secret Santa with at least a dozen colleges and universities nationwide, but instead of giving $5 trinkets this Santa has left schools with $1 million to $10 million gifts, The New York Times reports ( “Anonymous Donor Gives Read More...

Filed under: anonymous donor, Binghampton University, college, college donations, college donors, college endowments, college financing, College Funding, college loans, College Scholarships, female college leaders, female college presidents, financial aid, higher education funding, Lois DeFleur, Michigan State University, Montclair State University, New York Times, NextStudent, State College Funding, student loans, Susan Cole, University of North Caronlina Asheville

College Scholarships Dry Up Along With Endowment Funding
17 March 09 02:17 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

For the six-month period ending in December, college endowments nationwide lost an average of 24 percent, according to the nonprofit Commonfund Institute of Connecticut, forcing a handful of small regional universities to make significant cutbacks to their scholarship funds for the upcoming fall semester. Read More...

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Note to Families: Financial Aid More Competitive, But Not Out of Reach
26 January 09 05:09 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

With more families applying for financial aid — applications are already up 10 percent above last year’s record — and lending for private student loans drying up, families’ ability to find available financial aid is becoming more difficult, reports the Read More...

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Harvard’s $34 Billion Endowment Not Immune to Financial Crisis
12 November 08 06:24 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Harvard University’s whopping $34 billion endowment is declining in the current economic crisis, and the hits could keep coming, wrote university president, Drew Gilpin Faust , in a recent e-mail sent to students and employees (“ A Sober Message From Read More...

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Colleges With Highest Tuition Wary of Economic Downturn
05 November 08 05:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

After years of ranking among the nation’s top five most expensive schools, Sarah Lawrence College — a private, liberal arts school in Bronxville, New York with a tuition price tag of more than $53,000 a year — is now the priciest school in America, beating Read More...

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