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Report: High Scorers May Benefit Most From Standardized Test Preparation
27 May 09 01:35 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Students who receive above-average scores on standardized college admissions tests, such as the SAT, may benefit the most from commercial test preparation services, according to new report from the National Association for College Admission Counseling, although the benefits of such test preparation may not outweigh the costs for many families. Read More...

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$1M Awarded to Unnamed Whistleblowers in Federal Student Aid Suit
24 April 09 02:22 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Alta Colleges, operating 17 campuses in six states, recently settled a lawsuit involving student-aid fraud allegations and has agreed to pay the federal government $7 million. Read More...

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Tens of Thousands of College Work-Study Students to Benefit From Stimulus
24 February 09 03:08 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

An additional 130,000 college work-study students may have jobs next year thanks to the economic-stimulus bill that President Obama just signed into law which allocates approximately $200 million in new funding for Federal Work-Study Programs , reports Read More...

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States That Don’t Need Stimulus Funds to Benefit Anyway
19 February 09 11:35 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

While some states whose colleges are starving for money due to budget cuts are eagerly awaiting their share of the federal economic stimulus bill, the states that don’t need the stimulus money, or may not want it, may be getting it anyway, reports The Read More...

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Financial Aid Experts Brainstorm Ways to Help Students Survive Recession
29 January 09 05:48 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

At a recent financial aid conference, aid professionals discussed what colleges and universities can do to help struggling families pay for college amid a weakening economy, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ Student-Aid Experts Offer Advice Read More...

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UC System Considers “Free” Tuition for Lower-Income Families
27 January 09 04:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The University of California is considering a program which would offer certain students free tuition, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education (“ U. of California to Consider Covering Tuition for Families Below State’s Median Income ,” Jan. 22, 2009). Read More...

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Down Economy May Be Driving Students to Online Education
15 January 09 02:05 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

As jobs continue to disappear and unemployment soars, large numbers of adult learners may soon be enrolling in online programs, particularly at two-year colleges and for-profit institutions, according to a new online education survey (“ Recession May Read More...

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Auditors Accuse Bank of Illegally Getting Student Loans
09 January 09 02:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A recently completed audit of Fifth Third Bank — the 20th largest lender of federal student loans in the country according to college financial aid site FinAid — found that the bank violated federal law by illegally paying three companies for loan applications Read More...

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Colleges Step Up, Help Students With Extra Financial Aid
08 January 09 04:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

If recent data is any indication, families are struggling to come up with the cash they need to send their children to college, and schools across the country are doing something to help those who’ve come up short, reports The Chronicle of Higher Education Read More...

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Job Outlook for College Graduates Not Encouraging
04 December 08 02:20 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Up-and-coming college graduates may soon face one of the toughest job markets in years as they encounter employers who are scaling back hiring and a job market flooded with hundreds of thousands of recently unemployed workforce veterans. Just last month, Read More...

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Two-Year Colleges Will Be Most Affected by State Budget Deficits
11 November 08 04:12 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The financial outlook for community colleges in nearly half of all states is “not good,” with many institutions anticipating midyear cuts in funding, according to a member survey by the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (“ State Read More...

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Student Loan Crunch Affected Some Private Schools, But Crisis Largely Avoided
28 October 08 01:59 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The student loan crunch that began this past spring failed to become the widespread crisis that experts predicted, according to the results of a survey by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities . Still, the NAICU reports, some Read More...

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Virginia Commonwealth University Improperly Awarded Degree to Police Chief
11 September 08 01:02 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In an incident that mirrors the recent scandal at West Virginia University where an executive M.B.A. was improperly awarded to the governor’s daughter, an investigation found that Virginia Commonwealth University awarded the state’s police chief a bachelor’s Read More...

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College Textbook Sales Drop, Online Piracy Possible Cause
05 September 08 02:09 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Sales of new textbooks at some of the nation’s college presses are declining, and though many press directors are unsure why sales are slipping, others think it may have to do with online piracy of the books, according to an article in The Chronicle of Read More...

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Despite Greater Benefits Under New GI Bill, Vets May Still Opt for Trade Schools, Community Colleges
25 July 08 03:38 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Recently published research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicates that approximately 57 percent of those veterans who used their GI Bill benefits in fiscal year 2007 attended either community colleges or for-profit institutions. Veterans Read More...

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