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Lifetime Examines Gen-Y Females, Finds a Willingness to Go in to Debt

If your mother is an avid watcher of Lifetime: Television for Women, be forewarned, you are about to get some sound advice in the next few days. The network, long the bastion of the so-melodramatic- its-funny TV-movie, featured a program of great interest Read More...

Anxiety on Campus

An audit of mental health care at America’s top 50 colleges and universities reports an increase in student usage of mental health services over the past three years. The survey, conducted by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, found that students Read More...

The Miami Dade Chess Squad: March’s Best Cinderella Story?

Are you as disappointed as we are in the lack of upsets in this year’s NCAA tournament? Sure, there have been some great games (Georgetown’s comeback victory/North Carolina’s collapse, depending on how you look at it, certainly comes to mind), but aside Read More...

Newly Minted MBAs Set to Earn Record High Starting Pay

Last year salaries for graduating MBAs nationwide averaged $92,360, and the average signing bonus was $17,603. Those salaries will most likely rise for 2007 MBA graduates. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. led the way with record setting starting-pay Read More...

Terry Introduces Married Student Debt Relief Act

US Representative Lee Terry (R-NE), received an email from a constituent that pointed out how individual taxpayers are allowed to deduct $2,500 in student loan interest from their taxes each year---until they marry. Once married, the couple is only allowed Read More...

Regardless of Cost, a College Degree Pays Off

Regardless of Cost, a College Degree Pays Off The U.S. Census Bureau, on March 17, released data that could make writing that student loan repayment check a little easier: Adults with advanced degrees earn four times more than those with less than a high Read More...

Helicopter Parents Hover with Cell Phones

Helicopter Parents Hover with Cell Phones College Parents of America surveyed 1,700 parents from all fifty states and the District of Columbia and found that more than one in three parents are in touch with their offspring at least daily or more than Read More...

Student Googles Himself and finds Social Security Number

According to the Associated Press, A community college student in a Sacramento area community college district Googled himself and was surprised to find his Social Security number. Susie Williams, a spokesperson for the Los Rios Community College District Read More...