A bill before Congress would cut billions in federal subsidies for the student loan industry and increase the amount of money available for needy students – with funding coming from the pockets of lenders. The industry is under assault after reports of unethical financial relationships between universities and private lenders.
Loan industry defenders say the [...]
The Alberta government is using some of its energy revenue windfall to add $227 million to the province’s largest scholarship fund.
Premier Ed Stelmach has announced a 35% increase to the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund, bringing its total value to $851 million.
The program provides annual scholarships to high school students as well as undergraduate and graduate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite a growing number of options to finance a college education, students and parents are increasingly turning to loans.
Not only are students borrowing more money, but more of them are borrowing, according to data compiled by Nebraska’s Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
The news doesn’t sit well with Carna Pfeil, the commission’s associate director, who is [...]
Instead of pouring out, money is pouring into Burke County/… one million dollars to be exact.
The grant was awarded to the county and Western Piedmont Community College.
It will help pay for the construction of the Allied Health and Science Higher Education Center.
The new facility acts as a training facility for health care workers.
D’Youville College has received a $23,555 grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo to help prepare minority students who want to enroll in the nursing program.
The five-week program will be developed this fall and will be offered to 15 students during the summer of 2008.
The program will prepare students for the demands of college [...]
Nursing students at LaRoche College near Pittsburgh will soon have two new patients on which to practice their craft.
The Buhl Foundation has given the school a $96,000 grant to buy two software-controlled mannequins.
The mannequins will be used in a mock operating room to help students learn how to administer anesthesia under differing circumstances.
A grant that will total $1.25 million over the next five years will enable Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology in Flushing to provide some local high schools with academic support services.
The federal grant, which was given by the national Upward Bound Program, which provides after-school tutoring, will be for $250,000 during each of the [...]
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 [...]