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Students

Congress Looking to Ease Burden on Low-Income Students

Lesser-publicized elements of College Cost Reduction Act would benefit part-time students.

August 8, 2007

Students

Congress Looking to Ease Burden on Low-Income Students

Lesser-publicized elements of College Cost Reduction Act would benefit part-time students.

August 7, 2007

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JLBC report looks at impact of Prop 300 on immigrant students

PHOENIX Nearly 5,000 people have been denied in-state college tuition, financial aid and adult education classes this year under a new Arizona law banning undocumented immigrants from receiving those state-funded services, a new study shows.

August 6, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Interim Bishop State President Seeks 13 Firings, More to Come

MOBILE Ala. Interim Bishop State Community College President James Lowe has sent letters informing 13 employees of the school’s intent to fire them and two-year system Chancellor Bradley Byrne says more terminations are on the way.

August 5, 2007

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Taking Students Where “They Never Thought They Could Be”

In the quest to recruit and retain minority students, Dr. Beverly Richardson – provost of Mercer County Community College’s James Kerney campus (downtown Trenton, NJ) – has surpassed most expectations.

August 5, 2007

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College students will be able to renew B-On-Time loans

AUSTIN Qualifying college students will be able to renew loans from the state’s B-On-Time program in the upcoming school year, despite previous warnings that hundreds of students would lose the forgivable loans.

July 26, 2007

Latinx

Closing the Digital Divide at Minority-serving Institutions

The U.S. Senate has approved a new $250 million federal program to address the digital divide at historically Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and other minority-serving universities, as part of a far-reaching higher education reform bill that also simplifies the federal financial aid application.

July 23, 2007

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Shortfall means no interest-free loan program for new students

DALLAS Just weeks before starting a new academic year, thousands of college students throughout Texas are being told they won’t get the interest-free, forgivable loan they were counting on to pay tuition.

July 22, 2007

Students

Langston named in student loan inquiry

OKLAHOMA CITY Langston University officials say they do not have details of an investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office that found that a Langston financial aid officer accepted perks from a student loan company before advocating the lender on a preferred list for students.

July 22, 2007

Students

Higher Tuition Rates Cause Concern at College Campuses in Handful of States

Michigan is one of a handful of states where tuition at some public universities will increase by nearly 10 percent or more starting this fall. Four-year public schools in Illinois, Colorado and Oklahoma also plan tuition increases that could at least triple the general inflation rate.

July 18, 2007

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Is Temple No Longer ‘Diversity University’?

As the GPA and SAT scores of incoming freshmen has risen, the percentage of Black students enrolled at Temple has declined. On the other hand, the retention and graduation rates of Black students are as high as ever. Has Temple really abandoned its mission?

July 17, 2007

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ED Seeks Input on HEA Implementation

Now that Congress has passed a Higher Education Act bill, the action will move to the U.S. Education Department (ED) for implementation of the law.

July 14, 2007