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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...

Filed under: 160over90, admissions, advertising, AMA, American Marketing Association, AP, Associated Press, call a Colonel, Central Catholic, college, college loans, FaceBook, financial aid, Freshmen, grants, Greg Heindel, Jack Chielli, Kristen Pecka, marketing, media, Michael Rubinkam, MySpace, Nancy Costopulos, NextStudent, Nicole Pollock, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, recruiting, recruits, Scholarships, Scranton High, student loans, trends, undergraduate admissions, undergraduates, Wilkes, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, YouTube

Fewer Foreign Students Seeking Advanced Degrees in the U.S.
16 April 08 08:44 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The growth rate of international students studying at American colleges and universities has slowed, despite an increase in foreign applications to U.S. educational institutions for the third straight year in a row, according to a recent survey. The 2008 Read More...

Filed under: admissions, CGS, China, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, Council of Graduate Students, engineering, foreign students, graduate students, India, International Graduate Admissiions Survey, International Students, Karen Klomparens, Ken Redd, Kenneth Redd, Korea, Michigan State University, MSU, NextStudent, research, science, Seattle PI, Seattle Post Intelligencer, student loans, student visa, study, survey, trends, Visa

Study: College Courses Taught by Part-Time Faculty Lead to High Freshman Dropout Rates
15 April 08 07:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

College freshmen are more likely to drop out of school before their sophomore year when they take introductory-level courses taught by part-time, rather than full-time instructors, a recent study suggests. Increasingly, part-time and adjunct instructors Read More...

Filed under: adjuncts, AERA, American Educational Research Association, Audrey Jaeger, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, curriculum, David Glenn, dropout, faculty, Freshmen, full-time, gatekeeper courses, instruction, Journal of Higher Education, Kevin Eagan, lecturers, Leonard Baird, National Survey of Student Engagement, NC State, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, NextStudent, North Carolina State University, office hours, part-time, Paul Umbach, professors, research, student loans, TAs, teaching, trends, UCLA, University of Iowa

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...

Filed under: advice, blogs, college, College Life, Education, financial aid, financing, legislation, News, NextPath, NextStudent, NextStudent Webmarketing, student life, Student Loan Blog, student loans, Students Blogs, technology, trends, tuition, Web Marketing

Yahoo! Website Finds of the Year 2007: Weird & Wonderful
21 January 08 06:11 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

Annually since 2003, Yahoo! UK & Ireland has been handing out their “ Finds of the Year ” awards to the most interesting and innovative websites of the year. Yahoo! UK’s panel of judges chooses a winner and several runners-up in nine categories: Charity Read More...

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Can’t Find Your Friends? Check the Library
17 January 08 08:26 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Libraries aren’t what they used to be. No more stuffy, hair-bun-bearing librarians, no more thumbing through cumbersome card catalogs, and no more getting lost in aisles of endless Encyclopedia Britannicas. Libraries are now high-tech, high-speed information Read More...

Filed under: ALA, American Library Association, Anick Jesdanun, Benton Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Books, bookworms, card catalogs, college, Dewey Decimal System, FaceBook, Gen X, Gen Y, high-speed, Internet access, Julie Vorman, libraries, library, Loriene Roy, Microsoft, MySpace, nerds, NextStudent, online, Pew, Pew Internet & American Life Project, reading, Reuters, Second Life, stacks, student life, student loans, Students, stumble, StumbleUpon, technological revolution, technology, teenagers, teens, trends, USA Today

Gone in a Puff of Smoke: College Campuses Cutting Out Smoking
23 November 07 07:31 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

To smoke or not to smoke? That isn’t so much the question anymore as, Where art thou, Legally Sanctioned Smoking Area? And the answer to that is harder and harder to find as the number of smoking bans increases across both the country and college campuses. Read More...

Filed under: ACS, ACS CAN, Alex Eukmer, American Cancer Society, American College Health Association, American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation, asthma, ban, Bergen Community College, Betsy Foy, campus safety, CAN, Cancer Action Network, Chuck Kupchella, cigarettes, cigars, CNN, college, Department of Health and Human Services, dorm life, Drexel, Emily Bazar, Gainesville State, Great American Smokeout, health issues, health risks, Indiana University Bloomington, injunction, Judy Fortin, Martha Nesbitt, Michael McFadden, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, NextStudent, nonsmokers, nonsmoking, Patricia Alex, pipes, prohibition, respiratory, restriction, secondhand smoke, smokers, smoking, student loans, tobacco, trends, Triangle, University of North Dakota, USA Today

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...

Filed under: college, college advice, College Board, college pricing, consumer debt, cost of living, Erica Perez, financial aid, higher education, inflation, Larry Abramson, Luke Swarthout, median income, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, National Public Radio, NextStudent, NPR, Project on Student Debt, Robert Shireman, Scholarships, starting salaries, student debt, student loan debt, student loans, trends, tuition, U.S. PIRG

A Fix That Doesn’t Stick: British Scientists Invent Non-Stick, Water-Soluble Chewing Gum
22 October 07 02:53 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

You’re walking along down the street humming a happy tune because you’re having one of those remarkably great days, and then you take the step that stops you dead in your tracks. We all know the feeling of slowly trying to peel our heel up from a gooey Read More...

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Amazon and SpiralFrog Looking to Cut Into iTunes' Market Share
05 October 07 02:03 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Spurred by the monolithic popularity of iTunes and the decline of CD sales, veteran online retailers like Amazon.com , start-ups like SpiralFrog and other companies are clamoring to get into the fray of digital music on demand. With so much competition, Read More...

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Could Google Go Obsolete?
04 October 07 05:29 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The programmers and executives at San Francisco–based startup Powerset are hoping that the answer to this question will be “yes” once they debut their search engine that operates on natural-language technology. Powerset finally offered its first public Read More...

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