financial aid Index
March 17, 2009
Previous versions of the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus package, had indicated it would pour billions of dollars into higher education.
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March 02, 2009
You don't have to go to a school in Alaska, Minnesota, or Michigan for your tuition to freeze, even in March. Tuition freezes have, shockingly, nothing to do with a school's location. No, a tuition freeze means you'll pay the same amount for tuition every year for a set number of years (2 or 3) -- though room and board will still increase.
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February 09, 2009
Last week I was on a panel for the Educational Policy Institute presenting to a large number of muckety mucks about what the new presidential administration is proposing and could do regarding access and affordability for higher education. A few thoughts...
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January 20, 2009
Unfortunately, federal aid isn't based on whether your parents want to pay for your education; it all depends on whether they can. Parents have many reasons for not contributing to their child's education: can't afford it; it's the child's responsibility; sticky divorce. Regardless of your parents' reasons, however, the federal government's opinion is this: paying for a college education is the parents' primary responsibility.
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January 16, 2009
A new stimulus bill introduced by Democrats to the House of Representatives yesterday offers $825 billion in funding for, well, everything from nutrition to the DTV conversion. But does it have anything for higher education? You bet it does. The bill calls for $41 billion for education.
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January 12, 2009
Colleges all over the country are seeing a rise in applications for federal financial aid. In the first half of 2008, millions more students applied for aid, marking a 9% increase from the 2007 data. More and more of those students applying actually qualified for aid. By July of 2008, 800,000 more students had applied for Pell Grants than in 2007.
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January 08, 2009
Southern schools ruled the roost in Kiplinger's recent ranking of the best values in public colleges and universities. The financial advice publication ranked public, private, and liberal arts colleges, and published their rankings last month. Among public schools, the University of North Carolina won first place for in-state tuition and aid, the University of Florida came in second, and the University of Virginia third.
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