COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of students who hope to earn associate degrees offered by 37 career colleges across Ohio may not be able to afford to begin or continue with their education. That's because the new $50.5 billion 2-year state budget signed into law Friday by Governor Ted Strickland eliminates all state financial assistance. For the past 2 ...

TROY, N.Y. - President Barack Obama says that by 2020 America will again have the world's highest proportion of college graduates. The president said Monday that a recent increase in Pell Grants will help the nation reach that goal. He made the remarks as he spoke at a community college in Troy, N.Y., which has been hit hard by the economic ...

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 ...

Sep. 23--The U.S. House last week passed a student loan bill that was long overdue. The country has lost its edge as a world leader in the rate of college graduation, a status it must recover rapidly if it is to stay competitive globally. The rising cost of America's colleges and universities poses a growing obstacle for students. The majority of ...

CHICAGO - Young Americans showed their collective power when they helped vote President Obama into office. Inspired by his message of "change," they knocked on doors, spread flyers, voted for him by a 2-1 margin, and partied like rock-the-vote stars when he won. Since the election, though, that fervor has died down - noticeably. And while young people remain the president's ...

Pima Community College (Tucson, Arizona) plans to pay Hispanic men to stay in school because their graduation rates are so low. Under a new program, called Gain, 500 men will be paid $1,500 each for successfully completing classes and utilizing some support services. Three private foundations are funding the program. Public tax money won't be used. The idea is to turn ...

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's plan to boost Pell Grants for low-income college students cleared the House education committee Tuesday, the first step down a long and potentially rocky path through Congress. The bill would link Pell Grants to inflation for the first time since the program's creation in 1972, raising the maximum grant from $5,500 to $6,900 over the next ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

INDIANAPOLIS, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds , the nation's leading education loan guarantor, announces the award of nearly $3.4 million in scholarships to help 2,282 low to moderate income students nationwide pursue higher education. USA Funds awarded $1 million to 667 first-time recipients of USA Funds Access to Education Scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year. In addition, USA Funds awarded ...

Jul. 30--An estimated 100,000 Ohioans could see relief from costly student loans through legislation introduced yesterday by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown. Brown's bill would allow college graduates and others who are no longer enrolled to swap their private loans for federal loans with lower interest rates. "Too many Ohioans are still paying for college decades after they graduate -- through private ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Federal stimulus funds allocated to Virginia's public colleges helped keep the average increase in tuition and fees for in-state undergraduates to about 5 percent for the upcoming school year. A report by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia shows that the average annual in-state tuition and all mandatory fees at Virginia's 15 four-year schools is ...

Getting the first loan seems a little bit like magic. For students who can't afford the school of their choice, student loans are a viable alternative. Apply for a loan and the money seems to appear as if out of thin air. But after the second one, it begins to sink in. At some point, the money has to be paid ...

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. 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 ...

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. 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. 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 ...

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 ...