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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...

Filed under: college, college costs, college grants, college loans, Deval Patrick, financial aid, Harvard, higher education, Joint Committee on Higher Education, Low-Income Students, Massachusetts state grant aid, Masschusetts college students, MIT, NextStudent, private college tuition, private colleges and universities, private student loans, public college tuition, Robert O'Leary, student loans, The Boston Globe, tuition

NextStudent to Be Spotlighted at Largest Virtual College Fair
10 July 08 09:06 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Don Fenstermaker, the founder and CEO of NextStudent, will join noted names Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, and Kim Clark, senior writer for U.S. World & News Report, as one of only a few financial aid experts to give a live streaming video keynote presentation on college financing at today’s CollegeWeekLive event. Read More...

Filed under: college, college fair, college loans, CollegeWeekLive, Education Finance Advisors, federal student loans, FinAid, FinAid.org, financial aid, financing, higher education, Kim Clark, Mark Kantrowitz, NextPath, NextStudent, Paying for College, private student loans, Scholarship Search Engine, Scholarships, student loans, tuition, U.S. News & World Report

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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Admissions and Financial Aid Experts to Offer Live College Financing Advice at Free Online College Fair
08 July 08 08:12 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

CollegeWeekLive, the largest virtual college fair on the Web, will offer students and parents the opportunity this week to interact live and online with a wide range of college planning and financial aid professionals, including admissions counselors, financial aid experts, and advisors from some of the top college financing companies in the industry. Read More...

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New Senator at the Helm of Higher Education Act Negotiations
03 June 08 04:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sen. Barbara Mikulski , D-Md., will “pinch hit” for Sen. Edward Kennedy , D-Mass. — the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions who is recovering from surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor — in Senate and House negotiations Read More...

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Community Colleges Eliminate Friday Classes to Help Students Cut Gas Costs
19 May 08 07:54 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Several two-year schools with large numbers of commuter students have reduced the length of their academic week from five days to four in an effort to reduce their students’ commute and help them save money on gas. Making class sessions longer, these Read More...

Filed under: Andy Guess, class schedules, classes, college, college loans, community college, credit crunch, economy, gas, Inside Higher Ed, Meridian Community College, NextStudent, prices, private student loans, Scott Elliott, student loans, summer school, Two-Year Colleges

Proposed Bill Combines House, Senate Versions of the Higher Education Act
14 May 08 04:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Congressional aides hope to finalize a renewal of the Higher Education Act by Memorial Day that merges different versions of the proposed bill passed separately by the House of Representatives and the Senate last year, according to an article in The Chronicle 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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Entire First Class of New Medical College to Receive Full Scholarships
07 May 08 09:04 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The new University of Central Florida College of Medicine , scheduled to open in 2009, will be the first medical school in the nation to extend full four-year scholarships to all 40 members of its inaugural class, writes Katherine Mangan of The Chronicle Read More...

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Wesleyan University Student-Pioneered Endowment First of Its Kind
05 May 08 10:25 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The student government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, has established an endowment that it hopes will eventually eliminate the $270 activity fee required of all students, writes Charles Proctor of The Hartford Courant (“ Wesleyan Students Read More...

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Bond Package Touted as ‘Largest-Ever Capital Infusion’ For Virginia Colleges
02 May 08 05:22 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The Virginia General Assembly unanimously approved a $1.5 billion borrowing package that would fund construction projects for colleges and universities in the state’s South Hampton Roads region. The bond package — expected to be signed into law by Gov. Read More...

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Commencement Speakers to Remain Upbeat Despite Slowed Economy
01 May 08 02:36 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

This year’s MBA graduates will be seeing a sluggish economy and perhaps even bleak job prospects. Yet many high-profile business leaders returning to their alma maters as commencement speakers are expected to remain upbeat in their remarks to students, Read More...

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Study Finds Correlation Between National Professor Rating System and RateMyProfessors.com
30 April 08 08:58 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A study last year was the first to find a correlation between professor rankings on a university-administered system with the rankings of those same professors on the much-criticized RateMyProfessors.com , writes Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed (“ Validation Read More...

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Pennsylvania Student Loan Agency to Cut Grant Aid, Offer Employee Buyouts
30 April 08 05:06 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Pennsylvania’s student-loan agency will cut college grant amounts for the 2008–09 academic year by up to $750 and will offer voluntary buyouts to some of its nonunion employees in an effort to keep the company afloat. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Read More...

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Rockefeller Gives $100 Million to Harvard
29 April 08 04:59 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Recently, Harvard University alumnus David Rockefeller, announced that he will be giving his alma mater the single largest gift from a former student ever, writes Stephanie Strom of The New York Times , (“ Rockefeller Gives Harvard $100 Million ,” April Read More...

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