Guide to Education Grants

Another Student Loan Resource:The American Council on Education opened its 89th annual meeting this past Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007. According to a Feb. 12, 2007 article by Richard Byrne titled “At Annual Meeting, Council Focuses on Issues of Access and Accountability,” that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “The theme of the council’s 2007 [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:Last week I speculated on how President Bush intended to pay for the increase in awards for Pell Grants. Now it is official, with the details recently being released. The president’s proposal is summarized in an article by Kelly Field titled “How President Would Pay for Increase in Pell Grants” that appears [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:According to a Feb. 8, 2007 article briefing titled “Clinton Reintroduces Student Borrower Bill of Rights” that appeared in the National Council of Higher Education Loan Programs Inc.’s Daily Briefing, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, reintroduced the Student Borrower Bill of Rights on Feb. 7, which is “legislation that proposes to provide student [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:It has been the hot topic in the news for the past couple months and on my blog, so we all should know by now that the 110th Congress is controlled by the Democrats. Why is that big news? Because 2007 is the first year the Democrats have controlled the Congress since [...]

Another Student Loan Resource:Ever-present in the media, Wikipedia, the FREE Web site that allows collaborative content generation, continues to draw controversy. Two very interesting developments recently have occurred. The first is that college professors at Vermont’s Middlebury College now are barring Wikipedia from being cited as a source for students’ college papers. I wonder what [...]

Two articles on the attitudes of students toward debt caught our attention yesterday.   We all know of the students who seem to live by a two word motto when it comes to personal finance—“charge it!”—but there are many students out there who remain committed to paying for their education as they go, often to their [...]

According to ABC News, Oklahoma Wesleyan University is auctioning off a year’s tuition, room and board on eBay.   The bidding started last Saturday and will end this Saturday.   As of 11:00 pm on Saturday, bidding reached $4,425, a far cry from the $23,000 it costs to attend the private school.