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		<title>Financial Aid Podcast 935: FAFSA verification, tuition increases, holiday free stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial Aid Podcast 935: FAFSA verification, tuition increases, holiday free stuff
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
From NASFAA:
More than three in four college financial aid offices reported an increase in the number of cases where they must verify information on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), according to NASFAA&#8217;s latest Quick-Scan Survey. The increase in the number of verification cases was more likely to affect two-year colleges and low-income students.
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		<title>FAP924: Student loan debt repayment, outlet malls, free stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAP924: Student loan debt repayment, outlet malls, free stuff
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Student Financial Aid News
Students borrowing more than ever.
Have you read about income based repayment?
Private student loan swap proposal.
Scholarship Update
NASA ASEE scholarship. The Aeronautics Scholarship Program (ASP) offers our nation&#8217;s research leaders of tomorrow exceptional funding: Undergraduate Students * $15,000 awarded for each school year, to be used for educational related expenses * $10,000 Summer internship at a NASA Research Center * 2 years of support Graduate Students * $35,000 stipend * $11,000 awarded each year, to ...]]></description>
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		<title>FAP922: Social media scholarship, last minute financial aid, free stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Student Financial Aid News
From Forbes Magazine:
&#8220;Most states have quasi-governmental agencies that monitor the status of federally subsidized student loans and administer loan forgiveness programs for those who follow certain career paths,&#8221; Forbes reports. &#8220;Many of these agencies temporarily foot the bill for loan forgiveness before being reimbursed by the federal government. But some have been using excess revenues and state government funds to create their own loan forgiveness benefits. Now, with loan markets in turmoil ...]]></description>
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		<title>FAP919: $10,000 Scholarship, Scholarship Points, Scholarship eBook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Notes from College Goal Sunday.
Scholarship Update
Our new Scholarship eBook is out!
Today is the deadline for our $10,000 scholarship drawing.
Scholarship Points
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		<title>FAP918: Student loans, FAFSA changes, scholarship dailies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>financialaidguru</dc:creator>
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
FFEL termination
Perkins Loan changes
FAFSA changes
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		<title>FAP916: Student loan payment changes, online degrees</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Online degree effectiveness.
Decline in scholarship funding.
Student credit cards take another hit.
Scholarship Update
Congratulations to Karalynn Moran who won our $2,500 Scholarship Points award for June.
Operation Homefront.
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		<title>FAP914: Student credit cards, interest rates, Over Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
Student loan consolidation and Treasury Bills
Scholarship Update
AORN Foundation Scholarship Program. To provide scholarships to students who are pursuing a career in perioperative nursing and to registered nurses who are interested in and committed to perioperative nursing to continue their education by pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in nursing or a
complementary field. The number of awards and amount of the awards will be determined annually.  Awards are not renewable. The scholarships will ...]]></description>
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		<title>FAP913: Income based repayment, Canada, and free stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAP913: Income based repayment, Canada, and free stuff
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Weekly Financial Aid Roundup
529 plans getting hammered.
Scholarship Update
Scholarships begging for applicants on MySpace.
In the interest of providing additional opportunities to potential students, the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges has once again moved the deadline for submission for a $1,000 or $5,000 Dade Medical College scholarship to June 30th, 2009. There is still more than $130K available for various programs of study at the Miami and Hialeah campuses of the college, including Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography, Diagnostic ...]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Financial Aid News moving</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>financialaidguru</dc:creator>
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		<title>Daily Aid 117: How to save money for college safely</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Aid 117: How to save money for college safely
Student Financial Aid News
From Inside Higher Ed:
With Congress poised to give the White House a smoother path to push its plan to end the lender-based student loan program, President Obama warned Friday that he was girding up for a fight with banks and their &#8220;army of lobbyists.&#8221; Obama&#8217;s 2010 budget proposal in February included an aggressive plan to make all new federal student loans out of Federal Direct Student Loan Program, using tens of billions of dollars in savings from eliminating ...]]></description>
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