Financial Aid Podcast

Financial Aid Podcast


Latest Episodes

FAP787: Using LinkedIn To Build Your Personal Network
April 30, 2008

FAP787: Using LinkedIn To Build Your Personal Network News You Can Use + A session I did about LinkedIn, from PodCamp NYC. + Find me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cspenn Watch Now: Slides: | View

FAP786: How much student loan debt is too much?
April 29, 2008

FAP786: How much student loan debt is too much? Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: If Congress wants more low-income students to enroll in college, it should provide larger Pell Grant

FAP785: The Missing Free Stuff, Student loan troubles
April 28, 2008

FAP785: The Missing Free Stuff, Student loan troubles Listen now Student Financial Aid News + Back from PodCamp NYC + Chronicle: Rarely does a president devote a national address to a higher-education

Best of FAP: Meditation
April 24, 2008

On April 1, I posted up a meditation session as the April Fool’s Joke, and I wanted to repost it as a serious show. Give it a try - and please let me know how it works for you. Direct link to th

FAP784: Local Scholarships, PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Ac
April 23, 2008

FAP784: Local Scholarships, PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Act Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Momentum has been building for the federal government to take increasingly aggr

Opinion: PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Act is a bad idea
April 22, 2008

NCHELP just published this gem: Yesterday, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, along with a group of Senators introduced

FAP783: Special Episode - Earth Day
April 22, 2008

FAP783: Special Episode - Earth Day Listen now: It’s Earth Day, a celebration of all things environmental. Here at the Financial Aid Podcast, we celebrate TWO kinds of green - green living, and

FAP782: What to do if your financial aid check bounces
April 21, 2008

FAP782: What to do if your financial aid check bounces Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + From the Boston Globe: Checks issued by private student loan guarantee agency are bouncing. + Teri spoke

Opinion: Cutting off community colleges from student loans i
April 17, 2008

Listen now: Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 The recent announcements by some major lenders that companies are withdrawing student loans from colleges based on low graduation r

MEFA / Student Loan Network on WCVB 5
April 17, 2008

Last night, I made a brief appearance on WCVB 5 about the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority story that’s been all over the Boston media.