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Trade School Students No Longer Protected Under California Law
07 July 08 04:50 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

California students at for-profit colleges now have fewer legal rights if their institution goes out of business. The state law that regulated for-profit colleges, which enroll some 400,000 students, expired at the end of June and lawmakers recently rejected Read More...

Filed under: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools, Chronicle of Higher Education, college loans, Corinthian Colleges, financial aid, for-profit colleges, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles Times, NextStudent, student loans, trade schools, tuition

Colleges May Be Required to Refund Student Loans for Military Members Called Into Service
01 July 08 05:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

At the same time the recently passed GI Bill was being pushed through Congress, legislators have been considering a veterans education “bill of rights” that would protect service members who are called to duty in the middle of their higher education studies, Read More...

Filed under: American Association of Community Colleges, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, financial aid, GI Bill, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Kelly Field, military members, NextStudent, soldier student, student loan, student loans, tuition, VA, veteran, veterans, vets

Learn This, Professor: Shorter is Better
27 June 08 03:14 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Traditional college professors attempting to venture into online learning may be in store for a rather unpleasant surprise: What works in the classroom doesn’t necessarily work on the internet, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, classroom, college, college loans, financial aid, Jeffrey Young, mini-lecture, NextStudent, online learning, student loans, tuition, York University, YouTube, YouTube Professor

State-Based Loan Agencies May Not Offer Student Loans, Despite Government Intervention
20 June 08 04:18 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Just this year, some 112 student loan lenders have cut back or ended their participation in the federal and private student loan markets, including nine state loan agencies, who have each issued slightly different responses to the industry’s changes, Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, Eric Kelderman, financial aid, Missouri Education Loan Authority, Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, NextStudent, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, State Lenders, State-Based Loan Agencies, student loans, tuition

Gas Prices Put the Squeeze on Community College Students
17 June 08 05:00 PM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

With gasoline prices approaching $5 a gallon, students who attend community colleges in rural America — where a one-way trip to school is often 30 miles or more — are being forced to make some tough decisions about school, according to an article in The Read More...

Filed under: Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, community college, financial aid, gas prices, Libby Sander, NextStudent, student loans, tuition, University of New Mexico, Williston State College

U.S. Colleges to Provide Iraq Troops With On-Site Courses
22 May 08 03:16 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Beginning August 1, 2008, three U.S. colleges will be the first schools to offer on-ground instruction to U.S. troops in Iraq, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ The Educated Soldier: 3 Colleges Will Provide Courses for Forces Read More...

Filed under: Andrea L. Foster, Central Texas College, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, college loans, Department of Defense, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, financial aid, Iraq War, NextStudent, soldiers, student loans, Susan Aldridge, troops, tuition, University of Maryland University College

Study Abroad Charges Challenged in Lawsuit
03 March 08 02:04 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

How much college students are required to pay for their study-abroad programs could hang in the balance of a recent lawsuit brought by a father against his daughter’s school. The suit, reported by Karin Fischer in The Chronicle of Higher Education , challenges Read More...

Filed under: academic credit, Andrew Cuomo, attorney general, billing, Chronicle of Higher Education, college, deceptive billing, deceptive practices, disclosure, Emory University, fees, financial practices, Forum on Education Abroad, James Brady, Karin Fischer, lawsuit, New York, NextStudent, overseas, policies, Ronald Crutcher, School for International Training, student loans, study abroad, tuition, University System of Georgia, Wheaton College, World Learning

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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