Daily Aid 90: Searching Twitter for Scholarships

Student Financial Aid News

From Inside Higher Ed:

New signs of the economic difficulties facing all kinds of colleges: Administrators and staff members at John Carroll University are being required to take two weeks of unpaid leave, while faculty members are being asked to vote on a proposal to cut their salaries, The Plain Dealer of Cleveland reported. … The University of Washington is cutting 70 jobs from its fund raising operations, citing a drop of 25 percent in the value of the university’s endowment, the Associated Press reported.

Morris Brown College, a historically black institution fighting for its financial life, lost a classroom building to a foreclosure action on Tuesday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Frederick D. Jordan Hall was sold for $900,000. College leaders vowed to continue their push to revive the college, which is down to about 200 students.

Commentary

Completely unsurprising. At this point, if a university isn’t cutting back, it’s because there’s nothing left to cut. A lot of schools have made public claims committed to tuition freezes, but I wouldn’t expect those promises to hold if the current environment doesn’t improve. Be ready and anticipate “unexpected” tuition hikes, since they’re probably coming one way or another.

I’ll point you toward our $10,000 scholarship as one of the many avenues for provisioning against tuition hikes, as well as our free Scholarship Search Secrets eBook and video.

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Scholarship Search Secrets

Twitter’s the new darling of the tech and web world. It’s the shiny new object that is loved and advocated by its users. It’s also a treasure trove of scholarship information, IF you know how to look for it.

By the way, if you’re not a member of Scholarship Points, join today. They’re @winscholarships on Twitter – follow them! I’m also on Twitter as @cspenn.

Start at Twitter Search. Look for the basic term first to see what’s available:

Our familiar friends, the words deadline and application, show even more insight:

Now, to take action, we should start to look for URLs:

And don’t forget to search for document types, too, like PDFs:

Kick it up a notch and subscribe to any or all of these Twitter searches in Google Reader.

This is in addition to all the other scholarship search secrets outlined in our free Scholarship Search Secrets eBook and video, as well as the Twitter Power Guide.

Good luck, and good hunting!

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