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Nebraska State Colleges Extend Free Tuition Offer to Freshmen
10 March 09 04:31 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Beginning this fall, incoming first-year students attending any of Nebraska’s three state colleges — Wayne State College, Peru State College, or Chadron State College — may see their dreams of a college education come true with a little help from the state. Read More...

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Kentucky Student Loan Provider Is Out of Money
13 August 08 02:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

The Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, the state agency that provides college loans to students attending colleges and universities in Kentucky, will “effectively run out of money” Friday while it waits to receive a $50 million loan from Read More...

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College-Bookstore Bill Could Lower Textbook Costs for Students
21 July 08 02:12 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

College students may soon be getting some relief when it comes to the $900 they spend on textbooks annually, although these new savings may be too minimal to notice. A new bill before Congress being supported by college bookstores, HR 5546 , would allow Read More...

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Renting May Be Solution to High Cost of College Textbooks
07 July 08 07:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Hoping to reduce the premium prices college students pay for textbooks, which on average cost students $900 a year, some colleges and universities are opting to let their students rent their books rather than buy them. For the first time, six schools Read More...

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Publishing Company to Offer Free Online Textbooks
28 April 08 04:27 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To help reduce the rising cost of textbooks, which are approaching $1,000 a year for the average college student, digital-textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge will begin offering free online textbooks starting next year. The publishing company is signing Read More...

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Congress Joins States and Colleges in Efforts to Reduce Soaring Textbook Costs
03 March 08 07:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

With the average college student now shelling out between $900 and $1,000 each year for textbooks and supplies, according to the College Board ’s latest Trends in College Pricing report, schools, states, and now Congress are getting involved in the crusade Read More...

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