Posts tagged with “universities”

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Posted 6 months ago
collegeproblems: aaawww someone put these up around BU please Lately, we could use a bunch of these too.

collegeproblems:

aaawww someone put these up around BU please

Lately, we could use a bunch of these too.

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Posted 6 months ago

A step in the right direction.

“For college students everywhere feeling the pinch of the cost of textbooks, there’s good news: the end of the $200 textbook might be on its way. A new initiative in Washington state, the Open Course Library, represents a huge step in the right direction.

The goal of the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges project is to boost college completion rates by making higher education more affordable…”

Dear New England and the Mid-Atlantic, for all of the universities (public and private) that inhabit your borders with nearly every demographic attending said higher education institutes, why aren’t you trying the same thing?

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Posted 10 months ago
defaultmovie: Check it out!  We’re reviewed in Forbes today by J Maureen Henderson!  Meet The Filmmakers Who Are Fighting The Student Loan System For anyone still paying for their education years after graduating, you could be forgiven for believing that Default resembles a horror movie more than a documentary.  Produced by Serge Bakalian and directed by  Aurora Meneghello, Default: the Student Loan Documentary takes a frank and frightening look at the student loan industry through interviews with borrowers, academics and student loan reform advocates.                      -J. Maureen Henderson, Forbes Pay attention, college students, part III.

defaultmovie:

Check it out!  We’re reviewed in Forbes today by J Maureen Henderson! 

Meet The Filmmakers Who Are Fighting The Student Loan System

For anyone still paying for their education years after graduating, you could be forgiven for believing that Default resembles a horror movie more than a documentary.  Produced by Serge Bakalian and directed by  Aurora Meneghello, Default: the Student Loan Documentary takes a frank and frightening look at the student loan industry through interviews with borrowers, academics and student loan reform advocates.

                     -J. Maureen Henderson, Forbes

Pay attention, college students, part III.

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Posted 10 months ago

ACT NOW: Tell President Obama to Save Pell Grant Funding

markcoatney:

savepell:

Save PellStudents struggling to afford higher education are at risk of being among the first victims of Washington’s current budget battle. 

One GOP leader recently called Pell Grants “the welfare of the 21st century.” Another top Republican called this critical financial-aid program “unsustainable” and blamed it for the skyrocketing cost of college — despite both empirical evidence and common sense.

Poor and working-class students have already contributed to deficit reduction. With the elimination of the summer Pell program earlier this year, they “contributed” $4 billion per year to debt reduction. Enough is enough!

We need to make it clear to President Obama that protecting Pell Grant funding is non-negotiable. He needs to know that we must not sacrifice even a single dollar of support for hard-working, poor and working-class students.

Follow, and do likewise.

Pay attention, college students, part II

Its no secret that college degrees have become a near-necessity to survive in a 21st-century professional workforce. Cutting Pell grant funding would effectively slice the chances of numerous poor and working-class students of working their way towards an improved economic future for themselves through higher-education institutions. How is this even a debatable topic?

Follow savepell and sign the petition for all the students and families you know who are struggling to pay their way through college for a brighter future.

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