The presidents of six colleges and universities in South Carolina met Thursday morning with the chief executive officer of a private foundation that has given at least $2 million to a pair of historically black colleges and universities in this state. Rip Rapson, president and chief executive officer of the Troy, Mich.-based Kresge Foundation, met with students and toured the campus ...

University of California students will get a much larger tuition bill next year. The Board of Regents on Thursday approved a 32 percent increase in undergraduate student fees, despite protests by hundreds of demonstrators outside the regents' meeting at UCLA. By next fall, undergraduate fees will be boosted by $2,500, sending the average annual education cost at a UC campus to ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ College students are facing a sea change in borrowing to pay for their degrees _ unfortunately, many would still be drowning in debt. The change, perhaps as soon as July, would end the Federal Family Education Loan program that has dominated the federal student loan pool for more than 40 years. Banks and other private sources would ...

Oct. 27--Oregon students continue to apply for financial aid in record numbers even though the state's main assistance program stopped awarding new grants more than two months ago. Unemployed workers who lost their jobs after the grant cutoff date have been hit particularly hard. Thousands of people who applied for state financial aid to attend community colleges have been turned down ...

Oct. 25--Sure, you'll haggle at a garage sale and bargain at the flea market, but who dickers with colleges over the price of tuition? A few people, but many more should be, college advisors say, because schools are not turning away their advances. "The way that the schools do it, they don't want to call it discounting," said Jerry Slavonia, creator ...

Oct. 25--APTOS -- Community college students are working too much and know too little about financial aid to earn a degree or transfer to a four-year school as quickly as they might hope, according to a report released this week. A survey of more than 2,600 community college students online and at campuses, including Cabrillo College, found that about half of ...

Oct. 26--EL PASO -- Fifteen percent of students at for-profit colleges in El Paso failed to pay back their federal loans on time -- a trend that began before the economy faltered. Students who borrowed and neglected to pay back thousands of dollars they used to attend for-profit colleges now find themselves tangled in a financial mess that threatens their credit ...

The College Board offered a classic mix of good news and bad news in its latest look at trends in tuition and student aid released Tuesday. Both rose, meaning colleges are charging more, but students also are receiving more assistance to offset higher prices. The increasing grant aid, from the federal government and the colleges and universities themselves, has kept the ...

Reduced state spending and diminished endowment funds are making for higher college tuition for students this year, figures indicate. A College Board report released Tuesday indicated four-year U.S. public colleges raised annual tuition and fees an average 6.5 percent to $7,020 this fall, while private colleges -- which saw the value of their investments drop in the same period -- posted ...

Oct. 21--Many community and technical college students in Tennessee and Georgia have no access to federal student loans, causing some to turn to more expensive private loans, a new report shows. The students cannot apply for federal loans because their school won't enroll in a federal student loan program, fearing participation will expose them to a high default rate and related ...

The Black College Expo will return once again to Prince Georges County for a sixth year. The expo will take place on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 from 9 am to 3 pm at the University of Maryland, College Park in the Reckord Armory, with an after-show from 3 pm -5 pm. The mission this year is to provide more resources and ...

Filling Out Your FastWeb Profile Completely Can Qualify You for Millions of Dollars More in Scholarships. The cost of higher education is skyrocketing and even one semester of college comes with a hefty price tag. With the average tuition price spiking again this Fall, thousands of soon-to-be or continuing students are on the hunt for financial aid. FastWeb's done the dirty ...

Oct. 18--Mention that you need to start saving for your child's college tuition and you will hear the same advice from many financial planners: Pay for it in advance. "Step one is, if you can lock in your costs at today's prices, do it," said Cathy Pareto, a certified financial planner in Coral Gables. That's because the costs of college are ...

Dr. Michael Clifford, the principal of SignificantFederation (www.sigfed.com), a company that has invested or has a financial stake in more than a dozen online colleges and universities around the country, has decided it is time to give back. Clifford announced today that SignificantFederation plans to make $1 million in scholarships available to smart students, who can no longer afford to pay ...

Oct. 16--Area college students with disabilities who are pursuing college degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics soon will be able to apply for scholarships to help them attend college. Auburn Montgomery and Alabama State University announced Thursday that they will receive a portion of a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help Alabama students with disabilities earn ...

Some student aid out of reach More than 20 percent of community college students in Virginia do not have access to federal loans, according to a national study. The report by the Project on Student Debt found that one in 10 community college students in the United States are barred from financing their education with federal loans, considered the most affordable ...

Aaron Beswick, a SESP senior graduating this winter, barely has time to celebrate his graduation before he has to worry about repaying $32,000 in student loans. But new federal government initiatives plan to ease burdens like Beswick's with direct loans in which students borrow money straight from the government rather than bank lenders. The Income Based Repayment Plan allows for monthly ...

Tennessee education lenders and Republican lawmakers are fighting a bill that could end federally subsidies for private student loans, saying the legislation would eliminate competition and choice for borrowers. "President Obama's blueprint for a federal takeover of the college-loan industry will create a new entitlement that will cost taxpayers billions and will never go away," according a statement by Knoxville-based Edamerica, ...

Tens of thousands of veterans who headed to college this fall under a new GI Bill that promises to cover most, if not all, of their expenses are scrambling to pay bills because of delays in benefit checks, say students, colleges, and veterans groups. "The GI Bill is a mess," said Rutgers University-Camden freshman Robeen Billings, 24, a former naval electronics ...

The clock is ticking for Alisha Hull. She's been looking furiously for a job since she graduated from Ball State University in May with a degree in microbiology. But with the economy sagging and no real prospects in sight, the honors graduate soon will have to make that first payment on her $55,000 in student loans -- or ask her lenders ...