Browse by Tags

• Academic Competitiveness Grants
• appropriations bill
• appropriations legislation
• Associated Press
• Bush administration
• college
• college accessibility
• College Board
• college endowments
• college financial aid
• college financial aid system
• college financing
• college funding sources
• college loans
• college savings accounts
• community college costs
• Congressional Democrats
• continuing resolutions
• David Obey
• Department of Education
• Duke University
• economic stimulus bill
• Education department inspector general
• Education Department
• education secretary
• federal financial aid system
• federal financial aid
• federal grant programs
• Federal Pell Grant Program
• federal student aid
• federal student loans
• FinAid
• financial aid
• financial aid offers
• Financial Aid Officers
• foreign language grants
• freshman grants
• Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
• Gear Up program
• Harvard University
• higher eduaction funding
• Higher Education Legislation
• home equity loans
• House Appropriations Committee
• House of Representative Democrats
• Institute for College Access and Success
• junior grants
• Lauren Asher
• low income students
• Margaret Spellings
• math grants
• merit aid
• National Institutes of Health
• National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent grants
• need based aid
• NextStudent
• Obama administration
• Obama proposals
• Pell Grant program
• Pell Grants
• President George Bush vetoes
• President Obama
• private student loan lenders
• private student loans
• science grants
• science research funding
• senior grants
• SMART Grants
• sophomore grants
• Stafford student loans
• stimulus package
• Student Aid
• student financial aid programs
• Student Loan Legislation
• student loan lending criteria
• student loans
• the american council on education
• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• third party student loan lenders
• tuition increases
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Department of Education
• unsubsidized student loans
• Wisconsin legislators
• Wisconsin representatives
• work study programs
• Yale University

Students Could Wave Goodbye to Merit–Based Federal Aid
25 June 09 09:41 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

In another move to restructure the federal financial aid system, President Obama has proposed ending the government’s five-year foray into merit-based student aid and redirecting those financial aid funds to the need-based Pell Grant program, reports Read More...

Filed under: Academic Competitiveness Grants, college, college grants, college loans, Department of Education, Education department inspector general, Education Department, education secretary, federal financial aid system, federal financial aid, federal grants, Financial Aid Officers, foreign language grants, freshman grants, junior grants, low income students, Margaret Spellings, math grants, merit aid, National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent grants, need based aid, NextStudent, Obama proposals, Pell Grant program, Pell Grants, science grants, senior grants, SMART Grants, sophomore grants, Student Aid, Student Loan Legislation, the american council on education, The Chronicle of Higher Education

House Dems Get Second Crack at Higher Education Appropriations Bill
25 February 09 04:23 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Just days after President Obama signed a $787 billion economic stimulus bill into law, House Democrats have reintroduced a $410 billion overdue appropriations measure that would finance dozens of federal agencies and programs, including many related to Read More...

Filed under: Academic Competitiveness Grants, appropriations bill, appropriations legislation, Bush administration, college, college accessibility, college financial aid, college financing, college grants, college loans, Congressional Democrats, continuing resolutions, David Obey, economic stimulus bill, federal financial aid, federal grant programs, federal grants, Federal Pell Grant Program, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Gear Up program, higher eduaction funding, Higher Education Legislation, House Appropriations Committee, House of Representative Democrats, National Institutes of Health, National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent grants, NextStudent, Obama administration, Pell Grants, President George Bush vetoes, President Obama, science research funding, SMART Grants, student financial aid programs, student loans, U.S. Congress, Wisconsin legislators, Wisconsin representatives

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...

Filed under: Associated Press, College Board, college endowments, college financial aid system, college financing, college funding sources, college grants, college loans, college savings accounts, community college costs, Duke University, Education Department, federal grants, federal student aid, federal student loans, FinAid, financial aid, financial aid offers, Harvard University, home equity loans, Institute for College Access and Success, Lauren Asher, NextStudent, private student loan lenders, private student loans, Stafford student loans, stimulus package, student loan lending criteria, student loans, third party student loan lenders, tuition increases, U.S. Department of Education, unsubsidized student loans, work study programs, Yale University