Graduate School Financial Aid News
- State scholarship allows residents to receive free college education Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 11:28PMAs the oldest of four children, 18-year-old Maggie Jernick has certain unwritten responsibilities. She helps cook and clean. She takes on the role of mom while her mother, Nancy, is at work.
- Project Threshold persuades students to stay in college Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 11:04PMExciting at one moment and nauseating at another, starting college can be an emotional roller coaster for many students. The combination of unknown surroundings and new faces is intimidating to many but can be especially daunting to students who are the first in their families to attend college.
- UC Berkeley students return to school -- especially Michael and Jessica Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 1:46PMThe two names are most popular among the 4,300 freshmen arriving at the college. Among them were two 13-year-old undergraduates, and two 60 or older.
- Quadruplets benefit from state scholarship program Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 11:45AM21st Century Scholars offers $20 million in aid, serving 9,000 students.
- Four-year college programs unrealistic Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 11:08AMCollege has always been seen as a four-year institution as far as an undergraduate program goes. The idea is that the student graduates high school and goes off to college for four years before walking out into the real world with a career. Is this image really realistic anymore though?
- Budget Woes May Force Faculty Cuts, Says Chancellor Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 10:58AMAt his annual back-to-school press briefing Monday, UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau said the university, in response to ongoing budget woes, would cut back on hiring new faculty and not replace retiring faculty, which would gradually increase the current 18:1 student-to-teacher ratio on campus.
- Catheter-Related Blood Stream Infections to be Focus of AVA Meeting Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 6:15AM HERRIMAN, Utah----Improvements in the prevention of catheter-related infections will be a prime focus at the annual conference of the Association for Vascular Access in September.
- CENTRAL NY BUSINESS NEWS Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 2:58AM• FDIC reports more banks in trouble U.S. banking industry profits plunged by 86 percent in the second quarter and the number of troubled banks jumped to the highest level in about five years, as slumps in the housing and credit markets continued.
- School briefs for Wednesday, Aug. 27 Thursday, August 28, 2008 @ 2:16AMLocal students graduate from Ohio university
- Patent Infringement Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 11:53AMThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington upheld an Austin federal court’s judgment in favor of Motorola Inc. and other wireless phone companies after the UT System filed a patent infringement claim against them.
- Move In Day At Xavier University Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 11:42AMXavier’s freshman class of 863 students moved into their residence halls beginning at 8 a.m. Friday.
- Putting College Tuition on Plastic Wednesday, August 20, 2008 @ 1:18AM With private loans drying up, many parents and students are making the costly mistake of paying for higher education with the help of Visa or Mastercard, a second mortgage or their retirement nest eggs
- Spiffier campus greets Chants Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 10:31PMThere will be more than 1,700 new faces navigating the campus of Coastal Carolina University as classes begin today, and university officials say they are hoping that a beautification program and upcoming building projects will give the campus a new facade to match.
- BGSU gets funds to recruit math, science teachers Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 7:12AMA plan by Bowling Green State University to recruit and educate science and math teachers has been chosen for state...
- Student loans: Still available, but harder to get Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 7:10AMStudents who want private loans are finding that more lenders are requiring co-signers, tightening requirements and raising costs.
- School opens at SRJC Monday, August 18, 2008 @ 5:45AMFall classes at Santa Rosa Junior College are underway with 36,000 students -- from teens to seniors -- enjoying new programs and facilities.
- Paying for college: Credit cards are a bad idea Saturday, August 16, 2008 @ 11:52PMAs the fall semester beckons and financial aid from parents and the government runs dry, more college students are turning to credit cards to pay not only for their textbooks, meals and transportation but also for tuition.
- Facing deportation, teen achieves college dream with help of Danville benefactor Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 8:30AMDANVILLE — On the first day of his freshman orientation, Arthur Mkoyan arrived at UC Davis, with his mom, dad, little brother and a woman who was a stranger to all of them just a month ago.
- Teen achieves college dream with help of Danville benefactor Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 8:02AMSherry Heacox of Danville called then-stranger Arthur Mkoyan last month with unimaginable news: she wanted to pay for him to go to college.
- Champlain, Woodbury colleges announce merger Friday, August 15, 2008 @ 2:19AMMontpelier school worried about money, low enrollment figures
- Mo. College Starts New Training Program Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 6:50PMMany colleges advocate learning by experience. Starting this fall, students at Culver-Stockton College will have a chance to do it every semester, getting out of the classroom and into the real world.
- Dot-Com Duo Invests in Hometown Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 4:24PMA local family that hit it big during the dot-com boom is putting some of that money back into its own town. The development company eBaum’s Ventures is investing up to $5 million to change the face of Main Street in the village of Webster.
- WCPS Graduates Earn Millions of Dollars in Financial Aid Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 12:52PMThe 2008 Wayne County Public Schools’ (WCPS) graduating classes earned millions of dollars in aid to attend colleges and universities throughout North Carolina and across the nation. The graduates earned around $4.4 million in one time or annual grants, scholarships, and work-study aid. Calculating the total amounts of renewable aid, graduates from the seven high schools earned more than $12 ...
- Beauchene and Hadfield Join Lobo Volleyball Staff Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 11:13AMUniversity of New Mexico volleyball head coach Jeff Nelson recently announced the addition of assistant coach Lisa Beauchene and director of operations Jordie Hadfield to the Lobos staff.
- Alison Rabil to Head Financial Aid at Duke University Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 8:45AMDurham, NC -- Alison Rabil, the financial aid director at Barnard College since 2005, will become Duke University’s assistant vice provost and director of financial aid on Nov. 1, Provost Peter Lange announced Tuesday.
- Legislators want more veterans to graduate college Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 6:22AMAUSTIN -- Texas is doing a miserable job of getting veterans to graduate from college, and providing in-state tuition rates for all soldiers could be one way to help ensure more of them get higher education, lawmakers said Monday.
- Adan receives distinguished award Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 12:44PMPhyllis Kunze, CEO of the East Central Credit Union, recently received the 2007 Oklahoma Credit Union Professional of the Year Distinguished Service Award at the Oklahoma Credit Union League’s Annual Meeting in Tulsa.
- Campus housing options scarce Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 11:19AMReturning to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after a year teaching in China, Vincent Capone, a junior from Winthrop, was counting on a dorm room to save him the hassle, and considerable expense, of living off-campus. Unfortunately, a startling number of his fellow students had the same idea.
- Easing costs part of UD plan Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 1:56AMCampus leaders promise to help Delaware students
- Drowning in debt: Wise use of credit can preserve students’ financial security Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 12:44AMWalter Glaude can tell one financial horror story after another, and many of them involve college students. Such as the one about two college seniors he recently talked with who had accumulated debts of more than $40,000 each by using credit cards. “They were using it to supplement their income while they were in school,” Glaude said. “That’s ridiculous.”
