Tag: Financial Aid: Page 63

Students

States Boost Merit-based Aid At Expense of Need-based Aid

Despite a turbulent economy and an increased demand for state-funded aid, state financial aid agencies awarded $9.3 billion in funds to students during the 2006-07 academic year — a 10 percent increase from last year’s $8.5 billion, according to recently released data in the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs’ (NASSGAP) 38th annual survey.

July 14, 2008

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Spending Scandal at Texas Southern Ends Quietly

Students at Texas Southern University often have to work their way through college, and most of them need financial aid to follow in the footsteps of alumni Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland at the historically Black, open-enrollment university.

July 10, 2008

Students

Community College Pilot Programs Administer Immediate Aid to Students With Financial Emergencies

For many community college students living on tight budgets, an increase in rent, car repair expenses, unanticipated textbook costs and even running out of bus fare to get to school can derail their college education.

July 2, 2008

Students

Interest Rates on Need-based Federal Student Loans To Drop July 1

Interest rates on need-based federal student loans will drop July 1, making these loans cheaper for the 5.5 million college students that qualify, lawmakers announced Thursday.

June 26, 2008

Community Colleges

Community Colleges See Niche in Wind Tech Training Programs

With wind turbine towers popping up on the U.S. landscape at a rate of almost 10 per day, the need for people to maintain and repair them is reaching the critical point.

June 25, 2008

Latinx

Diverse Calendar

July 6-9 National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators 2008 NASFAA Conference Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Orlando, Fla. Web: www.nasfaa.org July 7-12 League of United Latin American Citizens 79th Annual National Convention & Exposition Hilton Washington, D.C. Web: www.lulac.org/events/ convention08.html July 13-15 CASE Summit for Advancement Leaders “Powerful Ideas for Changing Times” […]

June 25, 2008

Students

Educators Outline Steps to Ensure Student Access During Economic Uncertainty

Federal, state, institutional and private parties need to rethink how they are helping — and even hindering low- and moderate-income students’ advancement in higher education, said panelists at an event at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development on Friday.

June 15, 2008

Community Colleges

Nevada Community Colleges Find Other Options for Students Denied Access to Loans

Administrators at small colleges in northern Nevada say students still have loan options despite a decision by some of the nation’s largest banks to discontinue federally backed loans.

June 11, 2008

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Diverse Calendar

July 6-9 National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators 2008 NASFAA Conference Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort Orlando, Fla. Web: www.nasfaa.org July 23-27 UNITY: Journalists of Color Inc. 2008 UNITY: Journalists of Color Convention McCormick Place West Chicago Web: www.2008unity.org/ July 24-27 Toni Morrison Society Fifth Biennial Conference College of Charleston Charleston, S.C. […]

June 11, 2008

Students

Best & Brightest: Recent Graduate Beats the Odds to Foster a Better Future

Two hundred people had gathered in the auditorium to hear her speak, but Tiffany Brooks, a 2008 graduate of San Francisco State University, only saw one of them, her foster mother Doris Peeler-Brown.

June 5, 2008

Students

Banks Cut Off Wisconsin Two-year College Students’ Access to Loans

Several lenders say they will no longer give loans to students at Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges and 13 two-year colleges.

June 4, 2008

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The Bank of Family and Friends: New Student-loan Wrinkle

The credit crunch has driven dozens of lenders out of the student loan market.

June 3, 2008