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Getting Out the Student Vote

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Private Colleges Fight Sticker Shock

Replacing loans with grants, cutting tuition, guaranteeing no price increases, and more. Responding to consumer needs, private colleges are redoubling efforts to stay affordable and accessible. Download our compendium of innovative efforts (last updated June 12) to see examples of these initiatives. See our news release for NAICU's perspective on this accelerating national trend.

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Higher-Education Price Index Rises 3.6 Percent, Trailing Consumer Price Index

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 24, 2008

Even as they heralded the good news of that moderate increase, experts at the Commonfund Institute who maintain the index noted that broader economic trends could portend higher costs for colleges in the months to come. The increase in the index is slightly higher than the previous fiscal year's 3.4-percent increase but notably lower than the 5-percent increase reported for the 2006 fiscal year.

Battles Over State Spending and Black Colleges Slow Higher-Ed Bill

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 24, 2008

With just over a week remaining until the August recess, members of Congress and their aides are scrambling to complete work on reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. After lawmakers return from the monthlong August recess, they will have only a few weeks before they head home again. If a compromise bill doesn't clear Congress in that narrow window, the legislation will have to wait until next year, when Congress will have to start the lengthy process all over again under a new president.

Sallie Mae's Net Income Falls 72%

Wall Street Journal

July 23, 2008

Student loan originations fell about 8% to $3.3 billion, amid shifts in the way the company deals with external lending partners and a shift from purchasing to servicing their loans. Sallie Mae in April said it couldn't make profitable loans, prompting the nation's largest student lender to assess its operation and call for a "system-wide liquidity solution." However, the company said its funding and liquidity improved in the second quarter.

Education Department's 'Emergency' Request for Pell Grant Survey Is Denied

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog

July 23, 2008

The White House's Office of Management and Budget has denied the Education Department's "emergency" request for approval to immediately survey Pell Grant recipients who have transferred from one institution to another. Several associations representing traditional colleges opposed the department's request and questioned both its motive in pursuing the survey and its rationale for treating the matter as an emergency.

A brutal test in student borrowing

The Boston Globe

July 23, 2008

Since the unprecedented collapse of the student loan market, financing a college education has become more complicated than ever.

The View on the Ground

Inside Higher Ed

July 23, 2008

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators on Tuesday released a survey of its members, offering the first systematic look at what student aid officers on campuses are actually seeing and doing about the real or perceived lack of student loans for their students.

‘Sustainability Failures’

Inside Higher Ed

July 23, 2008

Mark J. O'Gorman's presentation stuck out amid the normal conference fare. He wasn't in town to discuss "successes" or "best practices." His talk had the word "failure" in the title. "Whatever scorecard you're using to talk about sustainability...it's not good enough," O'Gorman said Tuesday at the Society for College and University Planning Annual Conference, meeting this week in Montreal.

A Break From Purgatory, Barely

Inside Higher Ed

July 23, 2008

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Tuesday took the American Academy for Liberal Education off accreditors' death row, lifting a ban that prevented it from approving new institutions. But while the secretary also extended the agency's federal recognition by three years, through 2010, she required a series of reports to and appearances before the Education Department's accreditation advisory committee that could keep AALE on its heels.

Community colleges say excluding part-time students skews graduation rates

USA Today

July 22, 2008

The policy has been around since 1990, when the Education Department, responding primarily to concerns about academic performance of athletes, began requiring institutions that receive federal financial aid to submit graduation data. Four-year universities have their complaints about it, too, but community college advocates say the numbers paint an unfair and inaccurate picture of what happens on their campuses.

New Center Will Help Colleges Develop Their Study-Abroad Programs

Chronicle of Higher Education News Blog

July 22, 2008

The Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad, a joint effort of NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, will provide information, organize conferences, and create "action teams" of colleges that are looking to expand their study-abroad programs, according to its Web site. It will also identify emerging study-abroad markets and advise colleges on how to tap into them.


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