Dominican misreported its number of applications to U.S. News and other data collectors.

Paying a grandchild’s college directly would allow grandparents to avoid gift taxes.

Vendors could serve as recommenders for b-school applicants from family businesses.

“When Sussette Sheree Timmons, of Dallas, enrolled in several online colleges, she had no intention of becoming educated, federal authorities said. Timmons, 30, instead kept the financial aid she applied for and withdrew from the colleges and universi…

Late in March, a task force of 17 NASFAA members forwarded an initial list of 61 recommendations for changes to the Higher Education Act in the upcoming Reauthorization to the NASFAA Board of Directors. The Board accepted most of those recommendation…

“A proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to reduce interest rates on student loans has one big economic backer: Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz,” USA Today reports.

“Community colleges have received a declining share of government spending on higher education over the last decade even as their student bodies have become poorer and more heavily African-American and Latino, according to a report to be released Thurs…

“Elizabeth City State University could face the loss of federal financial aid as well as nearly $4.4 million in fines for not reporting more than 120 crimes as required by law,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

“Given the hard economic times, some students opt to keep college debt down by beginning their postsecondary education at a community college. But a recently released four-page report by the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation (TG) calls into que…

“The federal government is making huge profits when it lends money to college students and their parents. According to a recent Congressional Budget Office report, the government pockets a tidy sum for each student loan dollar you borrow,” Frugal Dad?…

“The White House and most congressional Democrats say the GOP plan would revive the culture of predatory adjustable-rate mortgage lending that fueled the housing collapse of the recession, and that lower-income students would end up ruing the day they …

Yesterday morning the House passed the Smarter Solutions for Students Act (H.R. 1911) by a vote of 221 to 198, roughly along party lines. H.R. 1911 would tie the interest rates on student loans to market rates by using a formula based on the 10-year Tr…

As you may recall, last year, Congress voted on whether to raise the subsidized Stafford loan interest rate to 6.8%, or keep it at 3.4%. Congress decided to prolong the decision for another year and keep the subsidized interest rate at 3.4%.

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