FAP726: Job Expert Jason Alba On Your Career
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+ Jason Alba, CEO of JibberJobber talks job hunting tactics for new college graduates
+ Alba on resumes, blogs, and how to find work even in a downturn
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FAP724: Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2008 In Review
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Massachusetts College Goal Sunday, the day when students, parents, and families can gather to receive help completing the FAFSA, has come and gone. I was proud to again be part of the Framingham site under team leaders Beth Feinberg and Iris Godes. This year, much to our surprise, we more than doubled attendance from last year to the site to 165 families, which is a tribute to the marketing that the Massachusetts College Goal Sunday committee has done throughout the …

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FAP723: Free Stuff Friday Career Stuff
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Chronicle: United in their common frustration with Congress, representatives of American colleges and universities and the U.S. Department of Education moved toward agreement on Thursday on several key points of a new grant program for aspiring teachers.
+ The two sides are discussing how to put the “Teach Grant” concept into effect and haven’t reached a final consensus on proposed regulations. But participants in the drafting process, which is being led by the department, made enough …

FAP722: Sallie Mae, Nelnet in trouble, graduate financial aid mailbag
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Student Financial Aid News
+ This Sunday is College Goal Sunday in Massachusetts. Other states will vary. I’ll be at Framingham High School, and I’ll be bringing my video rig as well.
+ Chronicle: Sallie Mae, (ticker: SLM) the nation’s largest student-loan company, said it will stop offering loans to students at colleges with poor graduation rates.
+ The lender, which is struggling with financial difficulties including a falling stock price, announced the change on Wednesday, one day …

FAP721: Expert interview with tax author Barbara Weltman
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Expert Interview
+ Barbara Weltman of the JK Lasser Institute
+ Barbara Weltman is an attorney, a nationally recognized expert on tax and small business, and a member of the J.K. Lasser Institute Team of Editors & Writers. Barbara has written dozens of top-selling business books, including J.K. Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2008: Your Complete Guide to a Better Bottom Line, J.K. Lasser’s 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2008: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible, The Complete Idiot’s Guide …

FAP720: How to prosper in an economic downturn
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Quiet newsday today because of the holiday yesterday
+ Chronicle: Two books published in France last week have focused attention on the phenomenon of young women moonlighting as sex workers to finance their university education, The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported today.
+ One book is a memoir of a 19-year-old modern-languages major named Laura who writes that, in her first year at an unnamed university, she was obliged to resort to prostitution in order …

FAP719: SLM Layoffs and Salaries, Mail Bag
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Student Financial Aid News
+ Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
+ Listen to the complete speech and read the text
+ Inside Higher Ed: Bowdoin College announced Friday that it would replace student loans with grants for all students receiving aid to attend. Bowdoin currently provides need-based financial aid to about 40 percent of students, and the loan packages of first-year students this year had been expected to total $21,000 by graduation. While a number of colleges have moved away from loans in the …

Here’s the speech in its entirety. If you’ve never listened to the whole thing, you should. It’s worthwhile.
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