The Lincoln City Branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) contributed $4,000 to the Oregon Coast Community College Foundation for four $1,000 scholarships for female students at OCCC. Tabitha Arnold of Lincoln City is the fourth receipt to be awarded for the 2005 -06 school term. The previous AAUW recipients, Karla Schafer, Melissa [...]

Only weeks before the 2008 presidential conventions, political veterans, including Representative John B. Anderson, Alderman Edward Burke, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator George McGovern and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III, met today to recall the old presidential nominating system and the profound changes in the way America selects its presidential candidates. The discussion, [...]

Although it denies violating New York laws on student loan practices, Johns Hopkins University will donate more than $1 million nationally and locally to absolve itself in a national investigation.
In April, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into student loan practices at Johns Hopkins University focusing on Ellen Frishberg, a director [...]

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 [...]

Johns Hopkins University has agreed to pay $1.125 million to settle a probe of its student loan practices, the New York attorney general said Thursday.
The settlement is the latest in a nationwide probe of conflicts of interest in the $85 billion student loan industry. Twenty-six schools and seven lenders, including Sallie Mae , JPMorgan Chase [...]

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 [...]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office said Thursday it reached a settlement with CIT Group Inc. and CIT’s Student Loan Xpress unit arising from the state’s investigation of abuses in the U.S. student loan business.
The New York-based commercial and consumer lender agreed to pay $3 million into a fund that will educate students about [...]

For his study of the social patterns of drug use among his fellow students at Decatur High School, William Slack shared first-place honors Monday in the national Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition.
The other first-place winner was Megan Blewett from Madison High School in Madison, N.J. Each received a $50,000 scholarship.
Frederic Lu, a student at Joseph Wheeler [...]

More than 5,200 students at Kansas State University are academic scholarship recipients for the 2006-2007 school year. Students are listed by their hometown.
Butler County
Andover: Austin Garrett Delimont, $1,460 Barbe Family Scholarship; Megan Ann Enns, $525 A. Sidney McIntire Memorial Scholarship and $725 Richard L. Clarke Scholarship; Bradley Warren Fouse, $240 G.E. Johnson Engineering Scholarship and [...]

Inaugural Pettman/ROSL ARTS International Scholarship for a New Zealand Chamber Ensemble: Winner Announced
The winner of the inaugural Pettman/ROSL ARTS International Scholarship is The New Zealand School of Music Graduate String Quartet.
Christobel Lin (20) violin: born Christchurch, University of Auckland, NZ School of
Music, Wellington
Sophie Bird (21) violin: born Auckland, University of Auckland, NZ School of Music,
Wellington
Nicholas [...]