Financial Aid Podcast

Financial Aid Podcast


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What additional services should we offer?
March 17, 2008

Please take a second to vote! Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. If you have additional suggestions/ideas

FAP758: Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Mail Bag
March 17, 2008

FAP758: Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Mail Bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Bear Stearns (ticker: BSC), the investment bank, disappeared over the weekend. After a major stock crash on Friday, t

FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday
March 14, 2008

FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Congress cut subsidies to private lenders while tightening rules on how they operate. More than a

FAP756: Perfect credit scoring storm approaching
March 13, 2008

FAP756: Perfect credit scoring storm approaching Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: a day after a top aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) expressed skepticism about whethe

FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays
March 12, 2008

FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Vassar College announced Tuesday that it is eliminating loans from the aid packages of stud

FAP754: 7 Ways To Leverage Your Social Media Resume
March 11, 2008

FAP754: 7 Ways To Leverage Your Social Media Resume Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Made it into the New York Times! More on that in the Jobcast + Inside Higher Ed: The Utah Tax Commission ha

FAP753: 6 ideas to pay for college
March 10, 2008

FAP753: 6 ideas to pay for college Listen now: Student Financial Aid News+ Boston Globe: Nearly 30 percent of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will not pay tuition next acad

How the Federal Reserve can fix student lending/student loan
March 09, 2008

The Federal Reserve does have the capacity to help fix student loans, and might, if there was sufficient pressure to do so. Here’s how. Right

Super cheap living: popcorn
March 07, 2008

My wife and I recently watched an episode of Good Eats, and the subject was homemade popcorn. Let me tell you right now, folks, that homemade popcorn is better tasting, healthier, and much cheaper tha

How will you invest your economic stimulus tax rebate check?
March 07, 2008

Washington’s revving up the printing presses to send “economic stimulus” checks to America as early as May of this year. It’s the hope of politicians that you’ll take