About 500 low-income students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point may be unable to attend classes this fall because of the uncertainty of a state financial aid program.
The Higher Education Aids Board has imposed a waiting list for applicants to the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant program, which last year awarded about $3.3 million to 1,923 [...]
College students will be able to borrow more from Uncle Sam and pay less in fees to lenders under a federal law that takes effect this week.
It will be the first time that the annual limits on federal Stafford Loans have increased since 1992. Over the same time period, tuition rates have more than doubled.
The [...]
A federal law that takes effect this week spells more money in the pockets of college undergraduates who borrow from Uncle Sam.
The new law changes the annual Stafford loan limits for students who qualify for financial aid. The change provides an additional $875 per year for freshmen and $1,000 per year for sophomores. The $5,500 [...]
The engrossed budget proposal the state House of Representatives released at the end of March includes $8 million for college financial aid, an increase of $3 million from the previous school year.
It still didn’t meet the $13.4 million requested by Gov. Janet Napolitano and the Arizona Board of Regents.
“Our goal was to make sure that [...]
Highlighting a statewide nursing shortage that some say decreases the quality of care at hospitals and other facilities, Villa Julie College could receive up to $750,000 for upgrading its distance learning program for nurses.
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said last week the funds were included in a Senate spending bill, along with $2.5 million for the [...]
The Pinckneyville Community High School board of education heard from parents at their Monday meeting who questioned objectivity in the awarding of a scholarship provided by the Southern Illinois Coaches Association and the Egyptian Officials Association.
Wade Graskewicz and Casey Hawkins told the board that awarding the scholarship during the past school year to Bryant Hale, [...]
Low-income students applying for financial aid to attend the University of Wisconsin campuses this fall will be put on a waiting list for one program due to uncertainty surrounding the state budget.
The Higher Educational Aids Board said that it’s running out of money for the Wisconsin Higher Education Grant program. The program gives need-based grants [...]
Gaston College will receive a $1 million federal grant for a new health building, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and college President Patricia Skinner announced this week.
The grant is from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration and will go for site work and construction of the David Belk Cannon Health Education Institute on the Dallas [...]
One student loan company took university financial aid directors on a junket to Disney World. Another paid $500 to be placed on a school’s list of recommended lenders. And others showered tequila, wine and golf outings on college aid officers.
Those were among what Senate investigators called illegal enticements from loan companies to university officials to [...]
A lack of clinical space, not students or faculty, prevents Marion Technical College from expanding its highly rated nursing program, which has a year-and-a-half waiting list of prospective pupils.
A class of 64 students Saturday graduated at MTC and will receive associate’s degrees in nursing as they prepare to take the NCLEX-RN state board licensure exam, [...]