Obama's Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up Fight with Private Lenders

See Plan to Change Student Lending Sets Up Fight, NYT, 4/13/09

-jeopardizes Sallie Mae, private lenders

Demand for Well-Regarded Public Colleges Growing

See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/nyregion/02suny.html "Well-regarded public colleges get a surge of bargain hunters," NYT, 3/2/09, at A1

Colleges Resist Cutting Aid to Keep Students

See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/28/education/28college.html "To keep students, colleges cut anything but aid," NYT, 2/28/09, A1

College Students Finding Financial Aid Drying Up

See Students' bitter lesson, NYP, 9/29/08, at 6

-financial aid lenders like myrichuncle.com, campus door, Bank of America not lending to students or at much higher rates

Education Panel Recommends Federally Financed College for Low Income Children

Panel proposes broad changes in federal financial aid for college, NYT, 9/19/08, at A11

Congress Passes Bill to Expand Loans for Students

See "House Passes Bill to Expand US Loans for Students," NYT, 4/18/08, at A22

-31k through federal programs to be made available to dependent students (up from 23k); 57500 for independent students

Harvard Law to Offer 3Ls Free Tuition if Pledge to Work in Public Service for Five Years

See "Harvard Law, hoping students will consider public service, offer tuition break," NYT, 3/18/08, at A14

-free 3L tuition if pledge five years to government or public service

Brown University Offers Free Tuition to Lower Income Students

-See "Brown ends tuition for lower income students," NYT, 2/25/08, at A13

-36k tuition and 47k with room and board, but now free if parents earn less than 60k, follows Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford

Stanford to Offer Free Tuition for Students from Families Earning Less than 100k

-See "Stanford set to raise aid for students in middle," NYT, 2/21/08, at A14

-follows Harvad, Yale-free room and board if student's parents earn under 60k

Wealthy Colleges' Growing Endowments Widen Gap in Higher Education

Check out "Soaring endowments widen a higher education gap", NYT, 2/4/08, at A14

USDOE Ignores IG Finding on Student Lender PHEAA's Overbilling

Check out "US ignores finding on student lender," NYT, 1/26/08, at A8 (PHEAA)

Arizona Bans State College Financial Assistance for Students Who Cannot Prove Legal Residence

Check out "Arizona law takes a toll on nonresident students," NYT, 1/27/08, at A14 (Proposition 300 referendum)

NY Governor Will Not Seek Higher Tuition But Seeks 2000 FT Faculty for SUNY Schools

Check out "Governor doesn't seek tuition rise for colleges," NYT, 1/10/08, at B6

NY Governor Proposes Large Endowment for SUNY System Including adding 2000 Faculty Members

Check out NYT article, 1/7/08, "Spitzer wants to endow state's public colleges", NYT, 1/3/08, by Danny Hakim

Governor Spitzer Urges Higher Tuition for SUNY Schools to Preserve Stature

Check out this NYT article about major changes coming in the SUNY higher education system...SUNY Changes Coming

Harvard to Help Upper Middle Class Students with Financial Aid

Check out this NYT article about financial aid being offered to upper middle class student applicants applyint to Harvard to stem the rising cost of tuition Harvard Financial Aid