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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Tuition and fees up 7.5 percent at Montco college
posted: 7 hours ago   source: philly.com  
Montgomery County Community College (PA) is increasing tuition and fees for next year by $18 per credit hour or 7.5 percent, the college announced .
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Seeking solutions to the student aid mess
posted: 7 hours ago   source: cbsnews.com  
The financial aid system in this country is broken.

There are many reasons why the system needs to be overhauled, but let's start with this one: the federal government is profiting tremendously when it lends money to college students and their parents.
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  Student Loan News
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 		Student loan borrowers pile on credit card debt and forgo everyday services
posted: 7 hours ago   source: post-gazette.com  
Private student loan borrowers are so hard up for money within eight years of leaving college that about half have had to let go of everyday services like cable TV and Internet access, and more than a third have borrowed from friends or family just to keep up with their college debt payments and meet basic living expenses.
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  Student Loan News
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 		Student Loan Co-Signer on the Hook for Delinquency
posted: 7 hours ago   source: foxbusiness.com  
Dear To Her Credit,
I co-signed a student loan for my husband in 2005. I regret doing so, because it did go into default after my husband lost his job. I feel down about it because I always had excellent credit. I know I should have continued to make the payments myself, but it's a long story. The collectors suggested to my husband that he take out a bank loan to pay off the student loan. If we do that they would cut...
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  College Savings News
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 		Save More for College Education With a 529 Plan
posted: 7 hours ago   source: money.usnews.com  
When it comes to paying for your child’s college education, do you feel prepared? Putting money aside in a regular savings account likely won’t help you reach your goals the same way other savings vehicles can, like a 529 plan – an account specifically designed to encourage saving for educational costs.
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  College Savings News
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 		Saving For Your Children's College Fund On A Budget
posted: 7 hours ago   source: forbes.com  
Watching your children hit milestones and mark life’s achievements is one of the greatest joys of parenting. From their first tooth to their first job, you share in all their victories and challenges. But chances are there’s one challenge that weighs particularly heavy on your mind: Sending them to college will likely be the largest expense of your life.
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  College Savings News
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 		High college costs prompt more parents to consider a 529 plan
posted: 7 hours ago   source: wvec.com  
Stephanie Stockdale says every dollar counts when it comes to saving money for her daughter Sidney's college education. Sidney is a seventh grader and the beneficiary of a 529 college savings plan her mom opened.
According to the college cost calculator on Savingforcollege.com, in six years, when Sidney goes to a college, the four-year education that costs $100,000 now will cost $155,000.
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  General College News
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 		Misericordia University students presenting workshop at National Stuttering Association Convention
posted: May 20th   source: misericordia.edu  
Misericordia University speech-language pathology majors Midori Rodriguez of Stroudsburg, Pa., and Terrence Murgallis of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., are presenting their workshop, “Funding for Stuttering: How to Use Your State’s Vocational Rehabilitation Office to Pay for Services for People Who Stutter (PWS),’’ at the National Stuttering Association Convention in Scottsdale, Ariz., in July.
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  Student Loan News
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 		Warren focuses on college debt; Congress must join the debate
posted: May 20th   source: bostonglobe.com  
ELIZABETH WARREN was elected to the Senate with the expectation that she’d make bold use of her bully pulpit. Her first proposed bill, which would dramatically lower student-loan interest rates, fits that profile. Warren has gotten considerable attention for her bill, which would reduce the interest rate on some student loans to 0.75 percent, the same rate the Federal Reserve currently charges to banks for short-term...
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  Retirement Savings News
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 		When You Haven't Saved Enough for Retirement
posted: May 20th   source: huffingtonpost.com  
You’re over 50 -- and you’re pretty sure you haven’t saved enough. Advice on how to sock away money for retirement gives you chills. You try to ignore the problem, but that's getting harder and harder every day. Let’s face it: You’re in a hole.
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Regents approve university tuition, fee hikes
posted: May 20th   source: stardem.com  
Students at Maryland's state universities will be paying a little more next school year.
The University System of Maryland's Board of Regents approved tuition and fee hikes at a meeting in Baltimore on Wednesday. The 2.4 percent increase over this year's tuition and fees is expected to boost revenue by $35.7 million.
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  Student Loan News
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 		Is Elizabeth Warren Right?
posted: May 20th   source: chicagonow.com  
Debate is heated right now about the rates used for student loans. In my youth, when I had a National Defense Student Loan, the rate was 3% (and one had to sign and say one would serve one's country; or at least that is the way I remember it). I think the then standard rate for bank loans was around 9% or so. At least, again, that is what I recall. All of this is to say, that today's debate about student loans. the...
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  Student Loan News
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 		10 student loan tips for recent graduates
posted: May 20th   source: news.cincinnati.com  
#1 Know your loans: It's important to keep track of the lender, balance, and repayment status for each of your student loans. These details determine your options for loan repayment and forgiveness. If you're not sure, ask your lender or visit www.nslds.ed.gov. You can log in and see the loan amounts, lender(s), and repayment status for all of your federal loans. If some of your loans aren't listed, they're probably...
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Students stiffed on college aid
posted: May 20th   source: suntimes.com  
Back in January I wrote about the Illinois Dream Fund nonprofit and its initiative to raise money through private donations and award college scholarships to undocumented Illinois students in need of financial aid.
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  College Admissions News
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 		College Essays That Stand Out From the Crowd
posted: May 18th   source: nytimes.com  
Financial columnist Ron Lieber of the NY Times asked HS seniors to send in college application essays about money, class, working and the economy. Of 66 submissions, he's selected 4 to publish. One of his 'winners', intriguingly, is from a student rejected by Princeton.
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Low-Income Students Pay High Net Prices at Many Colleges, Study Finds
posted: May 17th   source: chronicle.com  
At hundreds of colleges, low-income students pay high prices, even after grant aid, according to a new study. Four SAGE member colleges - Keystone, Ripon, Beloit and College of Wooster - are among the exceptions where tuition is affordable for Pell recipients.
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  College Admissions News
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 		Let's Bring Clarity to Undergraduate Admissions
posted: May 17th   source: chronicle.com  
Talk with people who work in or around college admissions, and they'll probably tell you the system is broken, or, at the very least, badly in need of repair. Here are some earth-shattering suggestions from Jon Boeckenstedt, VP of Enrollment Management at DePaul University.
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  General College News
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 		Five Pennsylvania State Schools Now Allowing Students To Bring Guns On Campus
posted: May 16th   source: thinkprogress.org  
Five of Pennsylvania’s state universities — Kutztown, Shippensburg, Edinboro, Slippery Rock and Millersville — will now allow students to carry firearms at school, due to advice from attorneys in the governor’s office and state higher education office claiming that “blanket firearms bans were vulnerable to constitutional challenge and exposed the universities” to lawsuits. Penn State, the largest university in the...
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  Student Loan News
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 		Time To Get Serious on Student Loan Debt
posted: May 15th   source: education123&goback=.gde_150353_member_240883230  
If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times from my Republican colleagues: we have to stop passing debt onto the backs of future generations. So, let's cap federal student loan interest at 3.4% and have loans (up to $45,000) forgiven after 10 years of payments at 10% of discretionary income.
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  Campus Finances
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 		Why some small colleges are in big trouble
posted: May 15th   source: bostonglobe.com  
Money is tight. Competition is brutal. Are some New England colleges on the road to ruin? Heavily dependent on attracting regional students, colleges see a drop in area HS graduates, declining endowments & new competition from online/other cheaper alternatives. 25 Massachusetts colleges are still looking to fill the freshman class.
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