Wednesday 18 January 2012

Financial Aid News

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Opinion: The Cost of College is Probably Going to Keep Going Up

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The fact is that we've never been in a situation where universities were charging a market price in the first place," Kevin Drum writes in Mother Jones. "After all, if the lifetime wage premium for...

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MTV’s Latest Facebook App is About Scholarships, Not Snooki

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"MTV, home to television shows like 'Jersey Shore' and 'Teen Mom,' might be the last place many students would think to turn for guidance about financial aid," Daniel E. Slotnik writes in the New...

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01-17: Citing Institutions for Late Annual Audit Submissions

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

In order to participate in federal student aid programs, schools must generally submit an audit conducted by an independent auditor that includes a compliance audit and audited financial statements...

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12 Inconvenient Truths About American Higher Education

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Let me enumerate in a very sketchy way what I believe are 12 'inconvenient truths about American higher education,' which will be forming the basis of longer writings over the course of the year,...

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Law Schools Remain Opaque About Job Prospects, Transparency Advocates Conclude

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Law schools have been slow to respond to calls for greater openness about the employment prospects of their graduates, according to a report released [Tuesday] by a watchdog group started by two...

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South Carolina: College Cost Calculators Can Yield Deceptive Results

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Arriving at the true cost of college isn't easy, said Bill Dingledine, a certified educational planner in Greenville and past president of the Southern Association for College Admission...

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10 Least Expensive Private Colleges

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"While choosing the best college or university for you can be difficult, strategizing a way to effectively finance your education can pose its own set of challenges," according to U.S. News and World...

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The Case for a College Report Card

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Fully 36 percent of college students 'did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning' over four years of college," Marty Nemko writes in The Atlantic. "That is but one of the many...

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Illinois Attorney General's Office Plans to Sue Westwood College

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The Illinois attorney general's office is lashing out at Westwood College, which has four Chicago-area campuses, claiming the institution misleads students enrolled in its criminal justice program,...

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Stiff Scholarship Cuts Are Proposed Under NCAA Penalty Structure

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

"CBS Sports reports on a proposed new NCAA penalty structure for misbehaving teams," Brad Wolverton writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Players blog. "If these changes went through (the...

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