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Top-Performing Students Denied State Scholarship Funds
27 April 09 04:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some 1,500 Georgia high school students will not receive the state scholarship funds they were promised for becoming valedictorians or for graduating in the top of their class, The Associated Press reports (“ Georgia Scholarships to End for 1,500 Students Read More...

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Harvard Inks Custom Loan Deal to Help International Graduate Students
03 March 09 04:47 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

At a time when large numbers of lenders exiting the student loan marketplace has made it more difficult for international students to find college and graduate school funding, Harvard has announced an exclusive agreement with JPMorgan Chase that will Read More...

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Governor Asks Pension Board, State’s Colleges to Help Keep Massachusetts Student Loan Provider Afloat
07 August 08 01:46 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A week after the cash-strapped Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority announced that its 40,000 borrowers would have to find a new private student loan provider , Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked the Massachusetts pension fund to invest Read More...

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Governor Launches Website to Help Massachusetts Families Find Student Loans
07 August 08 04:32 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has set up a financial assistance website to help the 40,000 families who were previously served by the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority to find a new student loan provider for the 2008–09 academic year, following Read More...

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Senator Pushes Colleges for Enhanced Oversight of Funded Research and Endowments
28 July 08 09:57 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sen. Charles Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, wants colleges to be held more accountable in both their academic research and their endowment spending, according to a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read More...

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Massachusetts Shortchanges College Students on Financial Aid
17 July 08 04:04 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Although Massachusetts is known as a hub for higher education, the state lags behind other states in awarding financial aid to college students, a shortfall that many educators say is limiting access to a college education for low-income and minority Read More...

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Davidson College Sees Positive Results After Eliminating Student Loans
09 July 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Princeton was the first university to completely eliminate student loans from its financial aid packages in 2001, and Harvard’s announcement to follow in Princeton’s footsteps this fall garnered national media attention as no-loan financial aid policies began to turn up across the Ivy League and at other elite schools nationwide. But it’s small, selective, liberal arts Davidson College in North Carolina that’s already seeing results after getting a head start over the rest of the Ivies by doing away with student loans last year. Read More...

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In Fight to Lower Tuition, Small Universities May Be Harmed
25 June 08 03:43 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some small U.S. colleges and universities are concerned that they may be the target of a new bill that would force schools with multi -billion dollar endowments, like Harvard , to reduce their tuition costs, and place other high-tuition institutions without Read More...

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Harvard Professor Urges Students to Consider Public Service Over Wall Street
25 June 08 12:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 7 Comments   

A Harvard University education professor is challenging undergraduates at elite colleges to forgo high-paying consulting and finance jobs, for careers in public service. The professor, Howard Gardner , is leading seminars at Harvard and, Amherst College Read More...

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Laptop Bans by College Professors May Improve Class Discussions
19 June 08 02:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Some professors at the nation’s most prominent law schools are resorting to classroom laptop bans to help reengage law students in lectures and discussions, and, despite students’ claims that the anti-laptop policies deny them a proper education, professors Read More...

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Oxford to Raise $2.5 Billion to Compete with U.S. Ivy Leagues
02 June 08 07:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an effort to keep up its better-funded Ivy League competition in the United States, the University of Oxford in London has embarked on the largest fundraising campaign in European academic history, with a fundraising goal of $2.5 billion. Read More...

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Controversial Saudi Prince Funds Islamic Centers Abroad
13 May 08 04:34 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud, a member of Saudi Arabia’s ruling family, has endowed $31 million to Britain’s Cambridge and Edinburgh universities to create research centers devoted to Islamic studies. The two academic centers will focus Read More...

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Stanford School of Medicine Won't Follow Harvard's or Yale's Financial Aid Initiatives
10 May 08 11:04 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at the Stanford School of Medicine will not be offered the same type of tuition breaks students attending rival medical schools Harvard and Yale will see next year. Harvard Medical School and the Yale School of Medicine recently announced they Read More...

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The New Financial Aid Landscape
26 April 08 12:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Even as the media has been drawn in recent months to the looming student loan availability crisis, many of the country’s top colleges and universities have been revamping their financial aid programs to better assist parents and students in covering their college costs. Read More...

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