If they haven’t already, millions of seniors graduating from high school will turn their attention over the next few weeks to paying for college.
Scholarships and grants — which don’t have to be paid back — are the best option, of course. But not everyone has the academic record for merit aid, or a great jump […]
As college graduation season comes to a close, the newly anointed degree holders finally have to face a new reality — life with hefty education debt.
There is plenty to be done before the debt starts to come due — in about six months for most — but graduates will need to act fast and think […]
Northern Marianas College may now get a loan for its campus renovation plans.
The governor signed House Bill 15-222 on Thursday immediately after his return from a Japan trip.
Now Public Law 15-58, the measure grants NMC legislative authorization to enter into a commercial loan agreement for $250,000 and to secure the loan with its cash deposits.
The […]
Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading saving- and paying-for-college company, awarded $25,000 to 11-year-old Gracie Maddox on “Dr. Phil” to help pay for her college education. The presentation is part of Sallie Mae’s ongoing awareness campaign to remind students and families that college is possible. Dr. Phil McGraw presented the award to Gracie on behalf of […]
New York’s attorney general has written a highly critical letter to college financial-aid officials saying their proposed new code of conduct would not curb abuses in the student loan industry.
Andrew Cuomo’s office has been investigating the industry for months. He says the new code cites only general, “vague lofty goals.” In a letter […]
The director of student financial services at Johns Hopkins University has resigned — nearly a month after a nationwide probe of the student-loan industry revealed she was accepting fees and graduate-school tuition payments from a lender.
Ellen Frishberg, director of student financial services at the Homewood campus since 1989, resigned Friday, a university spokesman said.
She had […]
Seminole State College has received word that it will receive more than $2.3 million in federal grant money for Upward Bound programs. A current grant was renewed for $334,873 annually for four years, and a new grant for $250,000 annually was awarded for four years to serve additional area schools.
Passaic County Community College was awarded a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Upward Bound Program to serve 50 Passaic high school students next school year.
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. announced the award Thursday.
The program seeks to prepare high school students for college, and get them interested in earning a degree.
The program serves students […]
The church a Vernon soldier attended has set up a scholarship to honor the fallen hero.
Twenty year old army corporal Ryan Collins of Vernon died May 19, in Iraq,
of wounds suffered when his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire May 18 south of Baghdad.
Collins was a paratrooper with the 25th […]
Celina High School seniors were recognized for academic accomplishments and the over $1 million in scholarship funds they received from the CARE organization, various donors, and from their respective universities.
Dru Prosser was named best all around boy, and D’Ann Conner was named best all around girl. Hundreds were in attendance including family members, school officials, […]
THE TIMES and Henley Management College are offering readers the chance to win a scholarship to study an executive modular MBA at Henley this year.
For a chance to win the scholarship, worth more than £30,000, you need to write a 1,500-word essay answering the following question: How do you build a truly effective network to […]
Food Lion stores from across Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the Carolinas and Georgia are getting ready for a variety of events to raise funds for a new scholarship to assist the company’s associates and their dependents in attending Virginia Tech.
Cookouts, casual dress days, raffles and other activities at approximately 350 stores Saturday will raise […]