Financial Aid Podcast
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Daily Aid 70: How to change your financial aid in event of job loss
Daily Aid 70: How to change your financial aid in event of job loss Focus on Financial Aid I’m tempted to stop doing the news, primarily because it seems to be re-runs.
Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2009 Early Report
Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2009 Early Report
FAP896: Credit cards, jobcast, mail bag, TONS of free stuff
FAP896: Credit cards, jobcast, mail bag, TONS of free stuff Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Major changes to credit cards including student credit cards coming as soon as 90 days away. The usual roundup of diminishing funds. Also, W-2s and 1099s
Daily Aid 69: Jobcast, student loans, micro-resume
Daily Aid 69: Jobcast, student loans, micro-resume Student Financial Aid News From Inside Higher Ed: This yearâs freshmen are about as likely to rely on family resources as first-years did in 2001, but theyâre also turning to self-sufficiency: 49.4 pe
Daily Aid 68: Student credit card changes coming up
Daily Aid 68: Student credit card changes coming up Student Financial Aid News The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) revealed recently that it anticipates a 1.7% drop in giving to higher education, s
Daily Aid 67: Dealing with economic stress
Daily Aid 67: Dealing with economic stress News You Can Use In tough times, pressure can get so tough that you start to make bad choices, choices that under different circumstances you’d never consider. This might b
What we must do to save the economy
For several years now I’ve been chronicling the decline of the economy through irresponsible lending and saying that when housing prices stabilize, then and only then will we get a chance to see the economy recover. That’s no longer the lin
FAP895: Vanishing scholarships, cooking to save money, free stuff
FAP895: Vanishing scholarships, cooking to save money, free stuff Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Scholarship money is running out - that’s the lead story this week. Featured Scholarships Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship » Scho
Daily Aid 66: Disappearing scholarships, Great Depression idea that works
Daily Aid 66: Disappearing scholarships, Great Depression idea that works Student Financial Aid News More scholarships are vanishing. From
Daily Aid 65: States cutting back merit scholarships that work
Daily Aid 65: States cutting back merit scholarships that work Student Financial Aid News Here’s a brain buster… From Inside Higher Ed: For many community colleges, low-income students are especially hard to retain. A new study, however, sugge