Thursday 23 February 2012

Financial Aid News

Financial Aid News

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02-22: Award Year 2009-10 Pell Grant CFL Reduction to G5 Net Drawdown Warning Message

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

At this time, all Federal Pell Grant (Pell Grant) funds for the 2009-10 Award Year should have been disbursed to students. In general, schools are to submit Pell Grant disbursements to the Department...

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Graduates of For-Profits Lag Behind Their Peers in Earnings and Employment, Study Finds

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"For-profit colleges do a good job of retaining students in their first year and getting them to finish, but over time these students also tend to fare worse than similar students at community...

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GEN-12-04: Federal Student Loan Issues

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

This letter provides information about the change in the interest rate on Direct Subsidized Loans made to undergraduate students that will apply to new loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2012....

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Will the Supreme Court Kill Diversity?

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"The Supreme Court's decision yesterday to hear a new challenge to affirmative action may be the beginning of the end of higher education's heavy reliance on race in student admissions," Richard...

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Liberal Learning: Only For The Elite?

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"In the national dialogue around college access and success for our most disadvantaged populations, discussion about liberal education is largely absent," Daniel de Vise writes in the Washington Post...

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Mounting Student Loans a 'Debt Bomb' Waiting to Explode

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"With student loans backed by the federal government, someone in trouble can try to get the payments deferred or modified. There are even loan forgiveness programs," Herb Weisbaum writes in MSNBC's...

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Opinion: The Obama Deal – Harvard for $6,700 a Year?

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"President Obama was too soft in the declaration of war (and peace treaty terms) he issued to university administrators over the spiraling cost of college education," Daniel Freedman writes...

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West Virginia: College Presidents Ask Manchin for Less Regulation, More Money

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"As part of his weeklong tour of the state, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., met with university presidents in Charleston on Wednesday to brainstorm big fixes to the state's higher education system -- and...

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Who Opposed Multiyear Athletics Aid? You Might Be Surprised

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"Four out of the 10 wealthiest athletic departments - Texas, Tennessee, LSU, and Oklahoma - as well as the national champion in football, Alabama, stood in opposition to a new policy allowing...

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Senator Asks Accreditor for Extra Care in U. of Phoenix Review

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:00 PM PST

"In an unusual move, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin wrote on Tuesday to the University of Phoenix's accreditor, urging it to 'take great care in considering the integrity and quality' of the for-profit...

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