4/29: Student Loan Radio #1 / Financial Aid Podcast #240
So, not a separate feed or show, just a new name for Saturday Night Frivolity.
Promos
+ GradLoans.com
+ ActEducationLoans.com
+ NewEnglandPodcasting.com
Podsafe Music
+ Whitney Steele, Time I Go
+ Heather Sullivan, Twisted
+ Bob Gentry, Ready to Die
+ A 7 minute rant on why $100 bribes during election years won’t solve the energy crisis
+ Marina V, Simple Magic
+ Katy Pfaffl, Wandering Blue
+ Rob Costlow, I Do
+ Jim Fidler, The Curra Road
+ Music via the Podsafe Music Network
Reminders
+ Consolidate your student loans at StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ Student loans available at …

4/28: Student Loan radio, Rutgers, Duke iPods,gas prices, laptop scholarship, financial aid minute, award letters, #239
Student Financial Aid News
+ Coming soon: Student Loan Radio!
+ Music shows will be put there – StudentLoanRadio.com
+ The Rutgers University president and 19 students traveled to Washington, D.C., Wednesday to pressure New Jersey lawmakers for more student aid in response to recent cuts to education funding.
+ College in Hawaii doing well – $600M surplus in state budget is being divided up and $275M of that is going to education
+ U.S. economic growth is increasing at …

4/27: Graduate PLUS loans, AAUP, SSDP, 4 year scholarships, Black Lab, #238
Student Financial Aid News
+ No school as lender for graduate PLUS loans
+ More information about graduate PLUS loans at GradLoans.com and later in the show
+ No ED response on SSDP lawsuit about drugs and financial aid
+ Next fall, students will pay more than $4,000 in tuition and fees to attend Boise State University, Idaho State University or the University of Idaho. In 1997, fees were under $2,000.
+ More students want money. 12,000 prospective students applied for aid in 2001 …

4/26: No reauthorization, UNH, foreclosures, graduate loan forgiveness programs, how to nail a phone interview, Tom Wehrle, #237
Student Financial Aid News
+ No reauthorization soon, says Bill Frist
+ ED Secretary questioning SAT scores
+ UNH reports in. UNH students who took out federal loans graduated owing an average of $22,851 last year, 60 percent more than in 1995.
+ The rapid increase in private loans is largely a result of a scarcity of federal loans, said Suzy Allen, UNH director of financial aid.
+ Rising costs have steadily pushed tuition at UNH up 7.8 …

4/25: SLM, private loan consolidation, interest rates, FIRST, student loan life and times, Black Lab, #236
Student Financial Aid News
+ SLM Corp. Chief Executive Thomas Fitzpatrick earned $3.35 million in 2005, including $2.63 million in bonuses
+ His salary for the year was $680,000
+ Private loan consolidation is back! Call us at the office to determine your needs
+ Remember that federal consolidation should be done first
+ Visit StudentLoanConsolidator.com for more private consolidation info
+ Interest rate update: We’re above 4.75% now, on our way to 5% by the end of May. The breakdown:
+ …

4/24: NE Podcasting, Steve Runner, EdFund, community colleges, tax breaks, scholarship update, Jobcast, Matthew Ebel, #235
Student Financial Aid News
+ New England Podcasting promo
+ Steve Runner Promo
+ The oil market closed Friday at $75.17/barrel – $3/gallon is here
+ The California Student Aid Commission, which processed $6.5 billion in student loans last year, needs more oversight, according to a recent audit performed by the state.
+ EdFund, a unit of the commission that administers the Federal Family Education Loan Program, is at the heart of the audit concerns.
+ Despite an $8.3 million operating …

4/21: Jobs, scholarships in danger, Wisconsin, New Orleans, the Donald, pot smokers, permanent residents, mail bag, Audiopharm, #234
Student Financial Aid News
+ Jobcast data check: 13.8% more college graduates hired this year
+ USA Today article points out how scholarships or grants can get reduced
+ Students in Wisconsin get a financial aid boost from Governor Jim Doyle
+ New Orleans universities have rebuilt while the city has not
+ The Donald chimes in on higher education stats
+ Economists aiming for $5/gallon at the pump by summer’s end
+ New England needs more college students?
+ The …

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4/20: FAFSA and drugs, oil, blogs, rate update, predatory consolidation, horse scholarship, jobcast, Matthew Ebel, #233
Student Financial Aid News
+ So much for the truth on the FAFSA according to new ED study about drug convictions
+ Georgia offers tuition freezes
+ Oil hits another record high – $72/barrel – we’re clearly aiming for $3/gallon at the pump
+ New SLN Blogs
+ Kristin Popsie now is doing a Stafford Loan Blog
+ Jon Rudy does the Student Loan Consolidation Blog
+ Monique Leonard is piloting the Federal Student Loan Blog
+ CEO Joe Cronin is managing the …

Nothing gets me in the mood for a workday like a good morning run on the beach, watching the sun rise, listening to Matthew Ebel’s Latte Days and Porter Nights. It’s the simple things in life that are like a slice of heaven made just for you.
Today is going to be a damn good day at the Student Loan Network. I can feel it.

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