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Ohio Schools Prep for No-Cost College Education Program for Vets
19 May 09 03:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Last summer Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland offered American military veterans worldwide a no-cost education at any of Ohio’s public colleges. The state has just now finished tallying its number of veteran students in preparation for the program’s Aug. 1, 2009 start date, the same day the new GI Bill goes into effect. Read More...

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State Colleges Cut Staff, Programs as Budgets Slashed
20 March 09 11:32 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Michael Crow, the president of Arizona State University who seven years ago promised to make ASU “The New American University” and to grow the school’s enrollment to 100,000 students by 2020, could see his plans go unfulfilled because of state budget cuts. Read More...

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Citing the Economy, Students Transfer from Private to Public Schools
09 March 09 03:29 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Public colleges and universities are experiencing a greater influx of transfer applications from private school students as the flagging economy heightens students’ concerns about their ability to pay for college, Bloomberg reports (“Rutgers Sees 50% Read More...

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VA Keeps Processing of New GI Bill Education Benefits In-House
10 November 08 01:10 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The education benefits of the new GI Bill — which will provide eligible veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with four years of college funding — will be processed in-house by the Department of Veterans Affairs and not outsourced to a private Read More...

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College Tuition, Student Borrowing On the Rise In Down Economy
03 November 08 01:50 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A new report has found that last year’s increases in college tuition were more on pace with rises in the Consumer Price Index — the measure of the average price of consumer goods and services. But despite the relative steadiness of college affordability, Read More...

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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...

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