Overhaul of college financial-aid programs won't rein in the high costs
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When Congress overhauled federal college aid recently, Democratic leaders crowed that the legislation was like the GI bill, which guaranteed free education for soldiers returning from World War II.
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Athletes attending college through 2012-13 will find fewer restrictions to determine reimbursement for educational expenses.
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New figures on university endowments confirm it's not just the "haves" and "have nots" in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, there's a growing group of the newly rich schools, and Â at the top of the heap Â a tiny cadre of ultra-wealthy institutions.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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Nine things you thought would get you into college--but won't.
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Congress is again adding hundreds of millions of new dollars to the Pell Grant program for low-income college students, but it's also allowing a procedural change that would cut &#151; and in some cases eliminate &#151; grant eligibility for as many as 1 million students.
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An accounting change that could cost schools and libraries an estimated &#36;1 billion in aid drew fire Tuesday from senators who said they were blindsided by the move.
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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For many college freshmen, this was what life on campus was like: Unprepared to handle money, they overspent on fast food and partying with friends without much thought as to how to pay the bills.
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A new, independent report card flunks America's colleges in a key subject for many students and parents: affordability.
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About 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students will not be qualified to receive Pell Grant scholarships under new calculation formula.
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The school doesn&#39;t get the top recruits, doesn&#39;t get the major bowl games it believes is its birthright, and doesn&#39;t get the fact that the football program is just not a major power anymore.
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The Bush administration yesterday proposed boosting the nation's main financial aid program for low-income college students by the largest amount in more than three decades, the latest in a flurry of measures this week by Congress and the White House to make higher education more affordable.
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On the heels of a student loan scandal, some higher education officials have called a conferenceâs format deeply troubling.
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The increases in the cost of higher education continue to drive up the amount that students and families borrow, according to a new report by the College Board.
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Yale University said Monday it is joining an expanding group of elite colleges under pressure from parents, lawmakers and alumni to make top schools more affordable to middle-class and upper middle-class families.
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Big-time college athletic departments who assert that their teams&#39; success leads to increased alumni donations and a better applicant pool have created an &quot;arms