FAP361: Scholarship updates by email, Yale goes open source, Instant message lines open, Rika Shinohara

Student Financial Aid News
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+ Now offering instant feedback (not sure why I didn’t before)
+ AOL IM: FinAidPodcast
+ Google Talk: financialaidpodcast
+ Yahoo IM: financialaidpodcast
+ A new site is offering a service specifically tailored for home equity to education loans
+ That makes me nervous – the risk of ending upside down is very high in some markets
+ Yale going open source on selected courses
+ Introduction to the Old Testament, Fundamentals of Physics, and Introduction to Political Philosophy
+ Harvard University’s endowment — the largest in the United States — earned a 16.7 percent return in the year ending June 30, 2006, bringing its value to $29.2 billion.
+ “A growing number of institutions – particularly high-priced private colleges, some public flagship universities, and for-profit institutions – are including private loans in the financial-aid packages they offer to students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. “College officials who have entered such arrangements say they are simply trying to get the best deals for their students. But critics, some of whom are in the loan industry, say the practices are putting needy students in harm’s way.”
+ Only if you position this ahead of federal loans
+ Private student loans at privatestudentloans.com or 866-229-8900

Scholarship Search Secret
+ Only 10 days left for the Scholarship Points drawing!
+ Get scholarship news by email
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+ Google News, Yahoo News, Student Scholarship Search, any RSS source
+ Use Feedblitz or Squeet
+ Create an account, create a new subscription
+ New items in those feeds will get emailed to you every day
+ Instead of a pile of emails, you’ll get one nice digest

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+ Rika Shinohara, bura bura
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Reminders
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