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 [...]

State Attorney General Bill McCollum sent a questionnaire to all Florida public colleges and universities.
The questionnaire asks if preferred lenders have offered them any incentives and to disclose their relationships with lenders. The attorney general says these types of practices keep schools from objectively providing students with fair choices and some students agree.
“It puts them [...]

Cadet Captain Christina Antonietta Zarrilli was awarded for the second year in a row the Chief Flying Eagle Scholarship to attend a Civil Air Patrol National Special Activity.
The Native American Flying Eagle Clan presents annual scholarships to cadets for Civil Air Patrol’s (CAP) intense summer training programs and encampments. The Clan recognizes CAP’s [...]

Builders, prepare to get schooled: the Florida Home Builders Association is expanding its online education.
The association has partnered with Building Media and the Code College Initiative to offer video training for builders and trades professionals to learn current practices on building codes, energy efficiency, building science, water intrusion and mold.
“The state association is always looking [...]

The BellSouth Foundation today announced that the University of Florida College of Education will receive a $600,000 grant to develop a comprehensive strategy for measuring and assessing the outcomes of the BellSouth 20/20 Vision for Education initiative. The $20M initiative commemorates the Foundation’s 20th anniversary and is designed to bring engaging, rigorous, online instruction to [...]

For the sixth year, the Florida Association of Realtors is sponsoring its Scholarship/Essay Contest for High School Seniors. This allows individual students the opportunity to win up to $6,500 in scholarships.
HOW TO ENTER: Students must write a typed, double-spaced essay (500 words or less) on the topic, “How Does a Realtor professional Benefit the Community?”

Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has donated $20,000 to the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University to support the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The program provides advanced training in entrepreneurship and small business management to military personnel who are disabled as a result of their service during operations [...]

Salem High School Alumni Association Scholarship Chairwoman Connie Christofaris Cranmer (Class of 1965) would like to encourage qualified graduates of Salem High School entering their second, third or fourth year of a four-year college curriculum to apply for the J. Robert Sebo College Scholarship.
Applicants may pick up a copy of the application at the Salem [...]

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 [...]

A $6.5 million gift from a retired business executive in Florida will allow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to create scholarships for science and engineering students.
Robert Weissman learned about the school through a column in the New York Times written by Thomas Friedman. The best selling author had previously written about the school’s president, Shirley Ann [...]