Academic Financial Solutions, a leading student loan debt consolidation company based in Tampa, Florida, alerts college graduates who graduated last May or June not to delay on college loan consolidation.
“Waiting to consolidate will be costly,” says Michael Babb, President of Academic Financial Solutions. “Many student loan borrowers don’t realize that their six-month grace period is [...]

Three private colleges in Connecticut will add a total of $75,000 to their scholarship funds to settle allegations of questionable arrangements with a student loan agency, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday.
Trinity College, Fairfield University and Sacred Heart University all denied any wrongdoing but agreed to abide by a code of conduct that would no [...]

A doctoral candidate from National Taiwan University’s (NTU) Institute of Information Management has been named as a winner of the prestigious scholarship awarded by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 this year.
Tsang Po-hao (臧柏皓), one of the eight winners of the ISC2 Information Security Scholarship Program, has won US$12,500 in recognition of [...]

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 [...]

Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., joined by 31 Attorneys General, urged the U.S. Senate to enact The Student Loan Sunshine Act, a new federal law to safeguard students and families nationwide from deceptive practices in the college loan industry.
The House of Representatives recently passed this legislation in a virtually unanimous vote of 414-3.
In a [...]

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 [...]

Maria College has received a $7,500 grant from the New York State Higher Education Services Corp. to implement an online course to teach students about their finances.
The course is designed to educate students at the Albany, N.Y., college, and others, about student loans and repayment practices, as well as to equip them with practical financial [...]

Students planning to attend Texas A&M International University in the fall should apply for financial aid before August to take advantage of the maximum range of financial assistance available, an administrator said.Laura Elizondo, director of financial aid, said TAMIU awarded more than $27 million in financial aid last year. She said students should apply before [...]

Nearly 90 percent of FAMU students depend on financial aid, so news of FAMU’s accreditation probationary status comes as a blow.
“My financial aid is how I pay for my everything, so of course I would leave and I’m sure a lot of other people would leave too,” said FAMU student Tytianna Greene.
After three years Matefia [...]

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 [...]