Thursday, 22 March 2012

Financial Aid News

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Pay No Attention To The Latest Paul Ryan Budget

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his latest budget plan yesterday. As expected, it proposes to reduce appropriations below what was agreed to in the debt ceiling deal - the...

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Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Fight Bubbles Up In Congress

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"In 2007, a Democratic Congress used savings to gradually decrease the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent," the Huffington Post reports. "Since then, the question of what happens when the...

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Middle-Class College Dreams Take Serious Hit Under Ryan Plan

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Each year college students are taught that proper analysis of a topic requires more than just reading one book or consulting one expert," Julie Margetta Morgan writes for the Center for American...

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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Accusing Law School of Inflating Job and Salary Data

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"A state judge on Wednesday threw out a class-action lawsuit against New York Law School, one of the first of 15 schools hauled into court for allegedly inflating their job-placement and salary...

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Comparing College Costs Can Be Tricky

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Families can compute costs at any university in the country with new online calculators, but the number-crunchers can be hard to find and difficult to use, a Des Moines Register review of Iowa...

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Social Media New College Frontier For Credit Card Marketers

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Credit card companies are turning to social media outlets such as Facebook to sign up college students, according to an analysis by University of South Carolina law professor Eboni Nelson,"...

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Legislation Would Provide Counseling on G.I. Bill Benefits to All Eligible Vets

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Amid allegations that some for-profit institutions have employed aggressive tactics to recruit veterans for their education benefits, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA, and a bipartisan group of senators...

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ACE Launches Online Toolkit for Institutions Serving Veterans

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"The American Council on Education (ACE) today launched its Toolkit for Veteran Friendly Institutions, an interactive online resource to help colleges and universities build effective programs for...

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ANN-12-06: Webinar Recording – Business Officer Training Q & A

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

The Department of Education has made available the recorded version of its online, instructor-led training session for business officers related to key aspects of managing funds at institutions...

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Tougher Rules on Loans May Hurt American Students Looking to Study Abroad

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 05:00 PM PDT

"Changes in federal student-loan regulations could make it difficult for students from the United States to use their aid when studying abroad," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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