The Higher Education Act mandates that colleges cannot require students to fund Federal Family Education Loan Program loans through the preferred lenders suggested by their financial aid offices. Therefore, students and parents should keep in mind that it is their decision when it comes to which company funds their FFELP student loans including the subsidized [...]

ELM Resources, Inc. is pleased to announce the delivery of the 2006.3 release of its industry leading ELMNet student loan delivery system. This new release expands on the enhancements included in the first phase of the release launched in December and continues to deliver on ELM’s commitment to provide its customers with the most robust [...]

A former teacher of slaying victim Karesse Ebron has established a scholarship fund in the teen’s name.
The Karesse Ebron Scholarship Fund will award $500 each year to a special-education student looking to continue his or her education beyond high school.
“I felt that she was a wonderful student, and her memory should continue in our school,” [...]

The committees of the Ora T. and Dessie H. Lower Memorial Scholarship Fund and the William S. and Lillian R. Coleman Fund now are taking applications from undergraduates for the 2007 scholarship grants.
Any Rush county student who is pursuing higher education and training beyond high school is eligible to apply. Applications may be obtained from [...]

Residents of Waldo County pursuing their education in a health care field may be eligible for scholarships awarded by Waldo County General Hospital. Awards are made to graduating high school seniors; college undergraduates; and Waldo County Healthcare, Inc. employees pursuing careers in health care related fields including but not limited to the following: nursing, [...]

Businessman Kermit Jones has made a $50,000 gift to Northeast Mississippi Community College’s Foundation to establish the Janet Kutrip Memorial Scholarship.
“I had been looking around for some charitable organizations for quite some time, praying about what I might do with some available funds,” Jones said.
Just a few days after the Sept. 10, 2006, death of [...]

The Peg Bond Scholarship will be awarded this spring to a student pursuing studies in the visual or performing arts at a four-year college, university or professional school.
Students must be residents of the city of Batavia or Batavia School District 101. The scholarship is administered by the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley.
Applications are [...]

They say membership has its benefits.
That certainly stands true for the Headwaters Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
From a total enrollment of 110 members in January 2005, the Gaylord-based group has grown to well over 400 members covering five Northeast Michigan counties - Alpena, Cheboygan, Montmorency, Otsego and Presque Isle.
That makes Headwaters the fastest-growing [...]

Some 38,000 students nationwide who have defaulted on study loans taken from the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN ) will soon face punitive action.
Corporation chairman Datuk Razali Ismail told The Star Tuesday that the defaulters will face repercussions when it goes after them.
“They have failed to respond to our legal notices and [...]

The committees of the Ora T. and Dessie H. Lower Memorial Scholarship Fund and the William S. and Lillian R. Coleman Fund now are taking applications from undergraduates for the 2007 scholarship grants.
Any Rush county student who is pursuing higher education and training beyond high school is eligible to apply. Applications may be obtained from [...]

More funding for a state college scholarship program is needed because lottery revenues aren’t as high as expected, state higher education officials say.
Greg Sawyer, the state’s associate vice chancellor for budget and finance, said lottery funding for higher education likely will fall $15 million to $22 million short of projections for the current fiscal year, [...]

Clarion County has recently suffered its first casualty in the war with Iraq . Ross McGinnis, 19, of Knox died from injuries suffered when a grenade was thrown into his vehicle in Baghdad , Iraq . With no time to discard the grenade from the vehicle, McGinnis warned his unit and used his [...]