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NPR
Paying for College: More Tough Decisions
Middle age is prime time for saving money. From your late 40s through early 60s, you're supposed to squirrel away cash to cope with health care costs in your old age. But for millions of Americans, middle age also is the time when children are seeking he...
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The Washington Post
University of Maryland student behind @FakeWallaceLoh outs himself
A University of Maryland senior history major named Greg Nasif has just confessed to being the guy who runs a Twitter account that parodies U-Md. President Wallace D. Loh, @FakeWallaceLoh . On Friday afternoon, the fake president tweeted about undergoing...
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Minding the Campus
Choosing a College for the Subsequent Job
Here is a guest post by Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit that seeks open-minded dialogue and enlightened leadership. Graduation exercises at Anacostia High School, 2010. (...
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The Washington Post
Choosing a college for the job that comes after
Here is a guest post by Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute , an international nonprofit that seeks open-minded dialogue and enlightened leadership. Graduation exercises at Anacostia High School, 2010....
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The Washington Post
On a college wait list? Keep waiting.
The first week of May is usually the final deadline for accepted students to commit to a college by mailing in a deposit check. Once that deadline passes, admissions offices have a better idea of how many more bodies they need to fill the freshman class...
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PRWeb
McDaniel College Offers New Master of Science Degree in Public Administration
McDaniel College is launching a new to begin in the fall of 2012. The program is being offered entirely online. As an extension of McDaniel’s social and human service graduate programs, this new master’s degree combines courses on public administration a...
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Washington Examiner
MontCo school officials look to stem student concussions
Montgomery County school officials are weighing efforts to screen high school athletes for concussions and similar head injuries linked to Alzheimer's-like disease and suicide. Superintendent Joshua Starr said Tuesday that his staff is drafting a memo on...
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diamondback online
O’Malley calls special session, plans to negotiate new budget
Gov. Martin O’Malley announced Friday lawmakers will reconvene for a special session beginning May 14 to compromise on a new state budget plan for next year. After legislators failed to pass several revenue-generating measures in the operating budget on...
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The Epoch Times
Why Johnny Can’t Pay His Student Loans
Junior and senior high-school students listen as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the interest rates of federal subsidized student loans at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., May 4. (Saul Loeb/AFP/GettyImages) Young people face a cruel ir...
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MLive.com
As prices for textbooks remain high, GVSU looks to the used book market to help students save
Baltimore SunIn this 2009 photo, Christopher Herring, 22, a sales floor supervisor, moves boxes of overstocks at the University Store at Towson University, in Maryland. As college students head back to school, many are seeking cheaper alternatives amid s...
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FOX News
Why Johnny can't pay his student loans
Young people face a cruel irony. Most can’t land a decent job without a college education, yet many graduates are locked into poorly paying positions that don’t permit repayment of student loans. For two generations, college price tags have risen much fa...
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Hechinger Foundation
As universities compete for dwindling state funds, performance matters
So many students will graduate from Slippery Rock University this spring that administrators have had to limit the number of guests each one can invite. There isn’t enough room in the basketball arena for everybody. At a time when American higher educati...
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NJ.com
Students from South Jersey making college news
Adam Heisman of Mullica Hill recently participated in the 2012 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Heisman is a junior majoring in English at Salisbury University. He presented “Teaching Existent...
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PRWeb
Deadline for Ethiopian Heritage College Scholarship Quickly Approaches
The Ethiopian Heritage College Scholarship is currently accepting applications from students in the Washington, D.C. metro area who are graduating high school for the 2012 academic year. Scholarship applications must be received before 6:00 PM on June 29...
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Red Maryland
Looming Debt, Little Hope
According to www.Finaid.org’s College Cost Projector, “college costs increase at about twice the inflation rate. Current increases have averaged 5% to 8%” per year. Their user-friendly cost projector, found just below the Discover® Card ad for student lo...
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