30th October 2009
Student governments and organizations at colleges and universities nationwide are pushing lawmakers to pass legislation that supporters say will make acquiring a higher education more accessible and affordable.
The legislative measure, known as the Stu...
07th October 2009
The Democratic-led House of Representatives, in a 253 to 171 vote on September 17, easily passed landmark legislation that would bring an end to the long-standing Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), the program initiated by the Higher Educat...
25th September 2009
With a 253 to 171 vote last week, the Democratic-led House of Representatives easily passed landmark legislation that would bring an end to the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), the program initiated by the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ...
30th July 2009
In this still-uncertain economy that remains rife with unemployment, hundreds of thousands of out-of-work blue- and white-collar professionals, competing for scarce available jobs, find themselves faced with the need to further their training, expand t...
13th March 2009
Compromise Stimulus Bill Expands College Grants but Not Student Loans
After weeks of back-and-forth political jockeying over President Obama’s proposed economic stimulus package, Congress settled on a compromise bill that offers expanded federal gr...
03rd March 2009
President Barack Obama is proposing an $825 billion economic stimulus bill that would include $140 billion — the largest increase in federal aid since World War II — to bolster the nation’s schools and help them stave off cuts to education progr...
16th September 2008
More families are appealing to the federal government for help this year in paying for college, as parents face a shrinking job market, record-high food and gas prices, and tightened borrowing restrictions that have grown out of the current credit cris...
09th September 2008
Student Voters Look to Candidates for Answers to Crisis in Student Loans and College Affordability
With problems growing in the student loan industry, spurred both by an ongoing credit crunch with its roots in the subprime mortgage crisis and by co...
08th September 2008
It’s crunch time for college students trying to secure the money they need for the fall semester. But with lenders continuing to suspend their student loan programs — the count now stands at 131 federal loan lenders and 30 private loan lenders — ...
12th March 2008
Freshman concerns about college affordability are at a 35-year high, according to a recent survey by the Higher Education Research Institute. Of the students surveyed, 39 percent said financial aid packages — the funds schools offer them in the form...
04th March 2008
If your schedule demands flexibility, convenience and round-the-clock availability, an online college degree program might be able to accommodate you in ways that a brick-and-mortar school can’t.
With customizable scheduling and at-your-desktop v...
20th February 2008
With college tuition prices on a steady incline that’s outstripping inflation, more and more students may need to rely on financial aid to help pay for school.
Trying to decipher what your financial aid award letters mean can seem complicated, but ...
11th February 2008
While tuition and fees have risen over the last decade at all types of colleges and universities, these costs have gone up the least at two-year schools, according to a recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The GAO report a...
02nd February 2008
The United States continues to lag behind other major industrialized nations in the percentage of the population with a college degree, according to a recent series of studies released by the Making Opportunity Affordable project.
Although currentl...
30th January 2008
If you’re a former student or a college parent with any outstanding federal student loans, you may be able to get up to 20 more years to repay just by consolidating your eligible federal parent or student loans. With that longer repayment term, since...
