Monday 18 June 2012

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3 Tools to Gauge College Costs and Returns

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Every college and university has a calculator online that allows prospective college students and their families to see what a particular institution might cost them," according to U.S. News and...

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Opinion: Pell Grants Flunk Out

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"On campus, they'd call this frosh econ, but Washington is having a bit more trouble getting its mind around the expanding debacle of helping college students pay for their education," the Wall...

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06-15: Volume 3 – Calculating Awards and Packaging [2012-13 Federal Student Aid Handbook]

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The Department of Education has made available Volume 3 – Calculating Awards and Packaging of the 2012-13 Federal Student Aid Handbook. The Federal Student Aid Handbook consists of the Application...

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Opinion: Here's a Diploma, With Ball and Chain Attached

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Student debt has helped fuel three decades of fast-rising college prices," Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the New America Foundation, writes for the Chronicle of Higher...

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U.S. Will Stop Deporting Some Illegal Immigrants Who Came Here as Children

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"President Obama said Friday his administration would stop deporting some illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children and have gone on to be productive and otherwise law-abiding...

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Romney Doesn’t Say Whether He Would Overturn Obama Immigration Order

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Responding to the challenge that President Obama posed in his order last week to stop deporting some illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney declined to say on Sunday whether he would reverse the...

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Opinion: End U.S. Student Loans, Don’t Make Them Cheaper

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Proponents of federal student-loan programs argue that private student-loan markets are underdeveloped, that banks are afraid to lend to students, largely because of their lack of credit history,"...

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A Pyrrhic Victory for Career College Lobbyists

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Last week's federal appeals court decision in a case challenging several of the Department of Education's new program integrity rules was not as favorable to the for-profit higher education industry...

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06-15: COD Processing Update

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

As explained in a February 17, 2012 Electronic Announcement and an April 6, 2012 Electronic Announcement on the Information for Financial Aid Professionals (IFAP) website, one of the changes made by...

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Senate Appropriators Pass Education Spending Bill

Posted: 17 Jun 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted yesterday to approve the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill. Spending on most...

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