Many college graduates are taking in a breath of fresh air this month after graduation, knowing that they no longer have to study for exams, give presentations or write papers. However, reality sinks in when grads think about paying back the student loan debt they have acquired. The median student loan debt for young adults [...]
Jennifer Alcantar: California State Grant, Cinco De Mayo Committee Scholarship, Napa Valley College Foundation Scholarship — Lola M. Thorburn Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Sam Anthony: Wood Family Scholarship.
Ana Archundia: St. Helena Junior Women’s Scholarship, Betty Wood Memorial Scholarship.
Wilson Barr: Golden State Seal Merit Diploma, Wood Family Scholarship.
Kris Bartolucci: St. Helena Native Sons Scholarship.
Jake Beltrami: Rusty [...]
Every year during the Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative meeting, scholarships are given to high school students.
This year is no different, but the scholarship amount is: The cooperative is giving away a total of $7,000.
“Seven $1,000 scholarships will be given,†said Carline Mitchell, REC marketing specialist. “That’s more than we have given out in the past.â€
Only [...]
The board of trustees of the K.T. Wiedemann Foundation has awarded a $500,000 conditional grant to the Butler Community College Foundation.
The money will go toward building a new cultural arts center on Butler’s El Dorado campus. It’s being paid for through private funding.
In order to receive the money from the Wiedemann Foundation, [...]
In another demonstration of how ‘homes build lives,’ the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County has raised more than $28,000 since May for its college scholarship program through golf and fishing tournaments.
The Spring Charity Golf Tournament held at the Crooked Creek Golf Club in Fuquay-Varina raised more than $19,000. The Fourth Annual HBA Fishing Tournament [...]
If you plan to graduate from college this spring, your mailbox may soon be filled with congratulatory cards from family friends, checks from distant relatives and reminders from your alma mater that your diploma will be rescinded unless you pay your overdue parking tickets. But if you borrowed to pay for college, much of your [...]
Sallie Mae Senior Vice President Barry Goulding today testified at the Senate Banking Committee hearing, ‘Paying for College: The Role of Private Student Lending’ to demonstrate how Sallie Mae serves students and parents in the private education loan market.
Goulding emphasized Sallie Mae’s ‘1-2-3 approach’ to paying for college: 1) after tapping personal financial resources such [...]
OneSimpleLoan® http://www.OneSimpleLoan.com, a student loan finance and consulting firm specializing in student loan consolidation, today announced that President & CEO Paul J. Simino is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2007 Award in the Florida region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs [...]
You’ve got the college degree, and now you’re stressed about what do to with the debt.
“Even if your student loans exceed your annual salary — which is, unfortunately, a common phenomenon these days — you can knock down those debts and start to regain control of your financial life,†says Lynnette Khalfani in her new [...]
Starting July 1, interest rates for older Stafford and PLUS loans will rise 0.08 percentage points. For borrowers of the need-based Stafford loans who are still in school, interest rates will rise to 6.62 percent, while PLUS loan rates will rise to 8.02 percent, according to student-loan provider Sallie Mae. For those who have already [...]
CIT Group said yesterday that the president of its Student Loan Xpress unit, which has been the focus of investigations into allegations of influence peddling in the $85 billion-a-year college-loan industry, has left the company.
The executive, Fabrizio Balestri, had been placed on leave in April and is “no longer with the company,” said Curt Ritter, [...]
A federal grant worth $810,000 will support construction costs for a new Transportation Technology Center on the campus of Davidson County Community College.
The grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce will fund about half the anticipated costs of constructing the new single-story, 9,100-square-foot building. The college will provide the balance of the needed money. [...]