DeVry University will award two Employment Gap Scholarships per eight-week session at each of its 86 undergraduate locations nationwide, as well as online, totaling more than 725 individual scholarships. These scholarships will provide up to $1,000 per semester (two eight-week sessions), per qualified student; up to a maximum of $9,000.
The Employment Gap Scholarships will be [...]

University of Wisconsin campuses would be barred from accepting payments from student loan companies in exchange for recommending them to borrowers under a proposal that will be considered for approval this week.
The policy aims to reassure the UW System’s students, who took out a record $592.7 million in loans last year, that campus administrators are [...]

The chairman of the U.S. Senate’s education committee said on Thursday he has written to the heads of two major student lenders over concerns about loan collection tactics, opening a new line of inquiry in a fast-expanding scandal in the student loan business.
“I am concerned that several private lenders may be engaging in harsh and [...]

Congressional leaders are moving briskly ahead on bills that would dramatically cut interest rates on student loans for some borrowers.
Although the measures have yet to become law, one has been approved in the House and a similar proposal has passed a key Senate committee. Experts say this is a sign that lending reforms are likely [...]

A private student loan provider is moving to Austin with plans to hire more than 200 people.
Education Finance Partners Inc., based in San Francisco, will open a customer operations center in North Austin. The location will house loan operations, customer service, technology and human resources. It expects to bring the site up to full capacity [...]

The National Labor College (NLC) announced today that Aetna has made a $50,000 grant to support scholarships for minority union members and to expand union members’ knowledge of the fast-paced healthcare industry.
“Of all benefits negotiated by union members, healthcare is among the most critical,” said Susan J. Schurman, NLC president. “We need the labor [...]

Though it’s not an issue that grabs national headlines, Democratic congressional candidate Christian Burridge figured student loan interest would be an issue of interest to a room full of college students.
Burridge spoke Wednesday at Utah Valley State College, saying that interest on federally guaranteed student loans should be capped at 4 percent.
He is trying to [...]

Scholarship application deadline for Oregon Coast Community College Foundation scholarships for the 2006 fall term is Monday, July 10. The foundation has received additional scholarship funding, according to A.T. Ronan, college development director.
She said, “Our total scholarships are now at $35,880 which potentially will assist 36 OCCC students. The foundation board of directors is very [...]

About 30 per cent of student-loan recipients in the previous student-loan programme have defaulted mainly because they cannot find jobs or earn less than Bt4,700 a month after graduation, student-loan fund manager Prempracha Supasamout disclosed.
He said the student-loan programme, which was open to students from low-income families until last year, had approved loans to 2.5 [...]

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