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Michigan Offer Money Back if Grads Don't Get Jobs Even as Michigan endures the nation's highest unemployment rate, there are jobs available in select fields for people with the right skills. Among the "hot jobs" highlighted by one college are pharmacy technicians, call center specialists, computer numerical control machinists and quality inspectors. The average wage for those jobs typically ranges from $12 to $16 an hour. More... Posted 4/12/2010
Student Loan Overhaul Advances Unless you knew better, you would have been hard-pressed to know that Congress was considering one of the most significant pieces of higher education legislation ever on Sunday. The student aid portion of the budget reconciliation legislation that a deeply divided House of Representatives passed late Sunday was completely overshadowed -- in the depressingly partisan debate on the House floor, the reams of national news coverage, and the public's consciousness -- by the bill's health care provisions. More... Posted 3/22/10
Revamped Aid Bill Boosts Pell -- and Provides $2B for Community Colleges Congressional Democrats and the White House reached agreement Wednesday on the higher education portion of revamped budget reconciliation legislation. The measure would provide $36 billion in new spending on Pell Grants (allowing the maximum grant to reach $5,975 by 2017 and linking increases in the grant to the Consumer Price Index, but only from 2013 to 2016), $2.55 billion for historically black and other minority-serving institutions, and $750 million for college access completion grants. And in a turnaround from a few days ago, when it became clear that the legislation would not finance the community-college focused American Graduation Initiative, the measure would provide $2 billion for a competitive grant program for two-year community college and career training programs, aimed at supporting careers of the future. The legislation would also funnel $9 billion to help pay for the health care provisions in the overall budget legislation. A fuller report on the legislation will appear on Inside Higher Ed March19th. Posted 3/18/10 NCAN Veterans' Benefits for Spring Semester Face Fewer Delays After a fall semester plagued by delays and backlogged payments, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs reports that it has issued the majority of spring-semester benefits to veterans in college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. More... 15 States Plus D.C. Are Named Race to the Top Finalists And the highly anticipated Round One finalists are... Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Tennessee. More...
AMEDF in the NEWS! BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) If your child got into Harvard, would you be able to afford it? The answer may surprise you. There's a workshop that teaches you how to pay for your child's college of choice, without going broke, and the best part, it's free. Watch here ... |
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ge preparation process from freshman to senior year in high school, including financial strategies that may save thousands off of even the most expensive colleges. Includes a calculation of the Expected Family Contribution, evaluation of a student’s admissions profile, and a review of thousands of colleges 
