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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...

College Football Costs Per Win

As the college football season has officially come to an end, we thought we’d provide this grid from USA Today showing how much each football victory “costs” a given Division I-A (er, we mean Football Bowl Subdivision) school. The costs and value that Read More...

Will Faculty Incentives End “Thirsty Thursdays” at U. of Iowa?

Thursday night…missing reel….Sunday afternoon. Does this sound like your typical college weekend? For many students, it does and obviously, overindulgence over the weekend has been a concern of many campus communities for some time. However, in recent 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...

Stolen Laptop Has Info on 5,000 Student Loan Borrowers

Personal information such as names, Social Security numbers, and home and e-mail addresses of nearly 5,200 student loan customers were on a stolen laptop computer according to the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. Investigators do not believe Read More...

Cost of operating colleges rises slightly

The costs of operating institutions of higher education rose only 3.4 percent in the last academic year, which is the smallest gain since 2002-2003 according to the Commonfund Institute’s Higher Education Price Index. Why? Utility bills at colleges and Read More...