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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...

Filed under: Bernard Osher Foundation, Cal State, California, California State, college, college loans, community college, donation, endowment, FCCC, financial aid, financial need, Foundation for California Community Colleges, four-year schools, Matt Krupnick, Mercury News, NextStudent, public colleges, public universities, San Francisco, Scholarships, student loans, transfer students, tuition, Two-Year Colleges, University of California

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...

Filed under: AAMC, Association of American Medical Colleges, Charles Prober, college, college loans, EFC, expected family contribution, financial aid, grants, Harvard, medical colleges, medical school, medical school loans, NextStudent, private student loans, school of medicine, Stanford, Stanford Daily, student loans, TAs, tuition, Yale

Cornell Medical School in Qatar Makes History with Inaugural Class
09 May 08 04:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Cornell University’s medical school in Qatar graduated its inaugural class on May 8, marking the first time a U.S.-based medical school has awarded degrees outside the United States. Read More...

Filed under: Carnegie Hall, college, college loans, doctors, Education, financial aid, grad school, graduate school, graduate students, Hamad Medical Corporation, health, interns, Katherine Mangan, medical colleges, medical school, medical school loans, Middle East, NextStudent, premed, Qatar, residency, residents, student loans, study abroad, The Chronicle of Higher Education, training, tuition, Weill Cornell

Expanded Tuition Benefits for Veterans Gaining Momentum in Congress
07 May 08 05:41 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

When the original G.I. Bill became law in the 1940s, it covered the full cost of tuition, housing, and living expenses for military veterans. Today’s G.I. Bill benefits have not kept up with the rising costs of college. Veterans currently receive the Read More...

Filed under: college loans, Congress, financial aid, G.I. Bill, military veterans, NextStudent, private college, public college, S 22, school-based aid, student loans, The Chronicle of Higher Education, tuition, war-spending

Lowest-Income Students Need More Pell Aid, Authors of New Report Find
05 May 08 04:35 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To help low-income students attend college, larger Pell Grants should be awarded to the most “financially needy” college students, according to a new report (“ Window of Opportunity: Targeting Federal Grant Aid to Students With the Lowest Incomes ”). Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, credit crunch, EFC, expected family contribution, financial aid, grants, IHEP, Institute for Higher Education Policy, Low-Income Students, Need-Based Aid, NextStudent, Pell Grant, Pell Grants, Sen. Edward Kennedy, student loans, U.S. Senate

Wilkes University Puts Freshman Recruits Front and Center and Billboard-Size
04 May 08 03:56 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Wilkes University, a small, private school in northeastern Pennsylvania, is using a quirky new in-your-face $120,000 ad campaign to get the attention of today’s media- and marketing-savvy students. The university is plastering personalized messages on billboards, pizza boxes, gas pumps, and even on MTV, VH1, and Comedy Central to students it wants to make a part of its freshman class. Read More...

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Western Kentucky University Students to See 9-Percent Jump in Tuition
01 May 08 04:50 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students at Western Kentucky University will see higher tuition costs after the school’s board of regents approved a 9-percent tuition hike on April 25, for the 2008–09 academic year. Under the new tuition rate, in-state undergraduate tuition will increase Read More...

Filed under: college, college loans, financial aid, Gary Ransdell, In-State Tuition, Kentucky, Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corp., NextStudent, Student Loan People, student loans, tuition, tuition hikes, Western Kentucky University, WKU, WNKY

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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Bank of America Backs Out of Private Student Loan Business
19 April 08 02:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

On April 17, Bank of America Corp. notified student-loan packager First Marblehead Corp. that it would no longer offer private student loans, focusing instead on providing federal student loans. Bank of America’s announcement comes amid increasing unsteadiness Read More...

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Availability of Federal Perkins Student Loans Is Dwindling
13 April 08 10:28 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A growing shortage of funds in the federal Perkins student loan program could affect as many as 50,000 students in the upcoming academic year, according to a recent article in U.S. News & World Report . Students who would have been eligible to receive Read More...

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Credit Unions Offer Themselves as Partial Solution to Looming Student Loan Crisis
12 April 08 11:19 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In the last six months alone, since legislators eliminated over $21 billion in subsidies to student loan lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program, at least 44 FFELP lenders have stopped originating federal student loans. This exodus of lenders Read More...

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NextStudent Web Marketing Team Shifts Direction of Student Loan Blog
26 February 08 04:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

To better serve you and carry out our mission of being your one-stop destination for all your education financing needs, the NextStudent Web Marketing team is moving our Student Loan Blog in a whole new direction. In the days ahead, you’ll see the Student Read More...

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Harvard’s Aid to Middle-Class Families a Signal for Change
03 January 08 03:03 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In December Harvard University announced it would begin offering increased financial aid to students of middle and upper-middle class families. Those families earning between $120,000 and $180,000 will only have to pay about 10 percent of their income, Read More...

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College Presidents’ Salaries Not-So-Slowly Sliding Up the Pay Scale
21 November 07 04:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

It costs a lot of money to go to college. It costs even more money to run a college. And it’s costing increasingly more money to pay college and university presidents’ salaries and compensation packages, with many reaching the million-dollar mark. According Read More...

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Student Loan Debt Is on the Rise, and College Grads Face Growing Financial Obstacles
04 November 07 08:10 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Money. Some of us have it. Some of us need more of it. Particularly recent college grads transitioning from their campus to the workspace, from having student loans available that help pay their living expenses to having to make it on their own—all while Read More...

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