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A Rich University's Mad Dash to Get Richer

By Sam Pizzigati
November 1, 2009

Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.

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Higher Ed Slashed, Left Dripping in Red

By Armand Biroonak
October 31, 2009

The Chronicle of Higher Education released a survey of chief financial officers at four-year universities across the country and it is no treat; their outlook for this budget year (FY 2010) was gloomy, by next year? Even scarier. more »

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Back to School, Students Turn to Loans for Help

By Armand Biroonak
September 4, 2009

Students are borrowing more than ever to pay for college. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, for the 2008-09 academic year, students borrowed nearly 25 percent more than the previous year to pay for school, borrowing a total of over $75 billion. more »

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America's Student Debt Now!

By Armand Biroonak
June 11, 2009

Attending the “Degrees of College Debt” panel at the America’s Future Now! conference last week, it was astonishing to hear dozens of graduates describe the mountains of debt they are climbing; $10,000! $50,000! $120,000 of debt! attendees shouted, when asked by the panel how much debt they had. more »

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The Obama Budget: A Stick In The Eye For Banks

By Eric Lotke
March 26, 2009

With all the fuss over Wall Street bailouts and AIG bonuses, one banking breakthrough is going unnoticed. Obama's proposed budget completely eliminates an unnecessary, obsolete bank subsidy: College student loans – where the subsidy goes to the bank, not the student. It’s a stick in the eye of the banking industry, and the banks aren’t taking it lightly. more »

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Remembering "The Father of Pell Grants"

By Alex Carter
January 6, 2009

On January 1, 2009, former Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) died at the age of 90. Known as the “father of Pell Grants,” Senator Pell was instrumental in helping low and moderate income students attend college, with the creation of Basic Educational Opportunity Grants in 1972, which were renamed “Pell Grants” in 1980. more »

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Gender Wage Gap Begins After Higher Education

Submitted by Armand Biroonak
October 8, 2008

A longitudinal study of male and female professionals found that the gender pay gap begins immediately after college, when women take first jobs that pay only 80 percent as much as men’s first jobs do, and continues throughout women’s lives--even though women earn higher college GPAs, are more likely to complete graduate work or advanced training, and spend about as much time at work as men do more »

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Making Sense of the Rising Cost of College

By Alex Carter
May 29, 2008

As college students celebrate graduation this May, their joy is combined with the harsh reality they face post-graduation--many of these students will graduate with unmanageable levels of loan debt that they can not afford basic necessities. more »

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House panel OKs higher limits for student loans

From boston.com
April 11th, 2008

boston.com — Students may increase their borrowing for college by $2,000 a year and private lenders could sell the debt to the government for a profit under legislation approved by a House panel yesterday. The measure, passed by the House Education and Labor Committee on a voice vote, is intended to ensure that turmoil in the credit markets doesn't prevent students from financing their educations, sponsors said.

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Higher Education Employees Storm Statehouse

From earthtimes.org
April 11th, 2008

earthtimes.org — Higher education employees from throughout Illinois came to Springfield Wednesday to urge legislators to reverse policies of neglect and, instead, invest in public colleges and universities.

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