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Student Loan Debt For Recent College Graduates Increases Again
With college tuition prices continuing to rise, you might assume that college students are entering the real world with more debt on their shoulders. According to a new report, that assumption would...
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Math Professor Wants To Use Cheaper, Better Textbook, Clashes With Department
The argument over a textbook at Cal State Fullerton combines many different issues in academia: the cost of textbooks, deference to authority, and academic freedom. A math professor wants to do...
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Starbucks Expands Tuition Program To Cover Spouses & Kids Of Military Employees
Since announcing a tuition reimbursement program for its workers in June 2014 – and an expansion to cover four years of schooling – Starbucks has sent more than 4,000 employees on a path toward an...
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7 Things We Learned About Federal Student Loans & The Companies That Profit...
Fifty years ago, Congress created the federal loan program as a way to help Americans realize their dreams of a better life through higher education. While millions of students have no doubt benefited...
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Pizza Hut Latest Company Offering To Help Send Employees To College
What do a car manufacturer, a coffee chain, a health insurance giant, and a pizza joint have in common? They all offer to foot the bill — or at least some of it — so their employees can further their...
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Looking Ahead: 5 Big Issues To Follow For 2016
Now that 2015 is done and we finally learned that Luke Skywalker is actually Faye Dunaway’s daughter (and sister!), it’s time to take off the party hats, sweep up the confetti, and do the walk of shame...
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High School Grads Failed To Claim $2.7B In College Grant Money Last Year
If you’re planning to attend college in the fall but haven’t gone through the not terribly difficult process of filling out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, you’re potentially giving up your...
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Two For-Profit College Chains Lose Government Funding Over...
If you hear a for-profit college touting its high job-placement rate, you’ve got good reason to be skeptical. Federal regulators have cut of government funding to two more for-profit education chains...
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No, It’s Probably Not A Great Idea To Rent Your Dorm Room On Airbnb
If you were traveling to Boston, an Airbnb listing for a private, one-bedroom unit with a great view of Boston Common might sound pretty attractive. For one college student, however, his success in...
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College Students Sue Google For Scanning School-Issued Gmail Accounts
Nearly two years after Google agreed to stop data-mining email accounts provided through its Google Apps For Education (GAFE) program, a group of current and former college students have sued the...
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For-Profit Beauty School Chain Shuts Down Just Days After Losing Federal Funding
Just days after losing access to federal student financial aid because it allegedly falsified records and overcharged students, the for-profit Marinello Schools of Beauty has shuttered all of its...
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Appeals Court Shuts Down For-Profit College Industry’s Effort To Avoid...
The for-profit college industry lost an important legal battle today, when a federal appeals court upheld last year’s lower court ruling in favor of new regulations intended to hold these controversial...
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Midwest Career College Abruptly Closes Doors, Files For Bankruptcy
Thousands of students attending Wright Career College in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas are now scrambling to figure out how to finish their education after the school abruptly closed its doors and...
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How Does JetBlue’s New Employee College Tuition Program Compare To Others?
Just like a 401k, health insurance, and other benefits, more and more companies are offering to pay for employees’ college education — or at least part of it — as a way to keep them on the payroll....
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Screwed Over By A For-Profit College? You Probably Signed Away Your Right To Sue
When Corinthian Colleges Inc. collapsed, leaving thousands of students in the lurch with student loan debt and credits that they didn’t know would be usable at other schools, they were generally unable...
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Defunct Beauty School Settles Whistleblower Suit Accusing It Of Falsifying...
Two months after abruptly closing its doors as a result of losing access to federal student financial aid, the for-profit Marinello Schools of Beauty has settled a whistleblower case that accused the...
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U.S. Government Used Fake University To Catch Visa Brokers, Swept Up Students...
To root out the education brokers who guide international students to fake colleges that are only visa mills, the Department of Homeland Security set up its own fake university. Yet should the...
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University Of Phoenix To Stop Stripping Students Of Their Right To Sue School
A recent study found that student enrollment agreements at virtually all of the nation’s biggest for-profit colleges have forced arbitration clauses that strip students of their rights to file a...
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20,000 For-Profit College Students Ask Education Dept. To Cancel Their...
As the fallout continues from the collapse of Corinthian Colleges Inc. — former operator of Everest University, WyoTech, and Heald College — the Department of Education is trying to sort through nearly...
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Graduation Rates: The Telltale Sign Of Success Or Indicator Of Failure?
For millions of students, attending college is a means to a better life: more job prospects, and higher earnings over a lifetime. While students who enroll and graduate from an institution of higher...
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