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Follow up on Recent College Financial Aid Announcements: “Wealthy Colleges' Largess Draws Rebuke”

This article, appearing in the Washington Post , details the reaction of some higher education administrators to Harvard’s recent expansion of its financial aid offerings. While schools with vast amounts of resources will more than likely follow suit Read More...

3 Ways to Make Extra Money While in College

A few weeks ago, we blogged about states stepping in and taking action against credit card companies that prey on college students. If you think about college marketing from a credit card company’s perspective, the college campus is an ideal place to Read More...

As Democrats Tout PL 110-84 via You-Tube, Expert Questions Real Savings

Democrats on the House Education and Labor Committee recently released a You-Tube clip to promote the “College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007,” PL 110-84. In addition to the popular Web site, the video has also been uploaded to the Committee’s Read More...

States Looking at Credit Cards on Campus

At different levels of government, lawmakers are responding to another, perhaps much more dangerous, element of the student debt problem: credit cards. According to American Banker , in addition to Congress’ scrutiny of the credit card industry in general, Read More...

Defaults Decreasing

Secretary Spellings announced the national student loan cohort default rate fell to 4.6 percent from last year's rate of 5.1 percent. Although default rates remain at historic lows, dropping from levels as high as 22 percent in the early nineties, they Read More...

Advice for Students Entering Grad School

An excellent choice for many college graduates and especially those who are entering graduate school this fall is to consolidate their loans before they enroll. Recent legislation to reduce lender subsidies means many of the borrower discounts lenders Read More...