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Eight: Getting PC Pro Schools Scholarships to Defray College Tuition, Part 2

Published on May 4, 2011 By

If you have done the search for local or PC Pro Schools scholarships already then you have also taken stock of your own goals and what you have to offer.  The next step in defraying college tuition is to apply for state and national scholarships. The locations you can look for this information include some [...]

Million-Dollar College Presidents (The Daily Beast)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

NEW YORK – Just as the cost of college has been rising, so have the paychecks for college presidents. A new study ranks the 30 academic heavyweights who pulled in more than $1 million a year. College is expensive, and the most expensive are private four-year institutions, with an average tuition of $35,000 per year .

8 Big Changes to College Admissions in 2010 and 2011 (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 15, 2010 By rohit

Colleges, swamped by applications from increasingly anxious high schoolers, are changing their admissions rules to weed out applicants who try to game the system by getting easy A’s or plagiarizing their essays. Interviews with admissions officers at some of the nation’s most popular colleges reveal recent and important shifts in the weighting of traditional admission factors

NYC’s Bloomberg starts pattern with schools chief (AP)

Published on November 11, 2010 By

NEW YORK – The new chancellor of the nation’s largest public school system attended Catholic schools as a child, sent her children to a private boarding school, and lists her service on a charter-school advisory board as her only educational-leadership pedigree. If Hearst Magazines Chairwoman Cathie Black’s predecessor — also a non-educator but credited with improving New York City schools — is any example, that hole in the resume doesn’t disqualify her. Her appointment this week as New York schools chancellor “seems to be a continuation of Mayor Bloomberg’s predisposition toward choosing people that he views as good managers regardless of their expertise in education,” said Aaron Pallas, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College

Surprise Cause of College Price Hikes: Midnight Pizza (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 1, 2010 By

It isn’t just college tuition that’s rising crazily. There’s growing evidence that the prices of many other everyday items, such as hamburgers, are rising faster on college campuses than they are in the rest of the economy.

Put a Face to Your Name (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 1, 2010 By rohit

It’s not all about shaking hands. Taking time to go to a LSAC recruiting forum or a law school recruiting fair can be worth your while if you use the time wisely. Law school admissions personnel read thousands of files every year, but they don’t get to meet more than a couple hundred applicants face to face

College Costs Are Up Again (BusinessWeek)

Published on October 29, 2010 By rohit

Students and families already struggling in a tough U.S. economy got little relief from swelling college costs this year, with the published prices of tuition and fees continuing their upward climb, according to a College Board report released today. The news isn’t all bad, though, with the financial blow to families somewhat softened this year by record increases in federal grant aid, said the College Board, a nonprofit membership association of colleges and high schools.

Tuition at public colleges jumps 8 percent, College Board reports (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on October 29, 2010 By

Tuition at public college and universities continued its steep upward climb this year, rising an average of nearly 8 percent at four-year institutions.

APNewsBreak: University posts info of 40K students (AP)

Published on October 29, 2010 By rohit

HONOLULU – The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The Associated Press has learned. University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on Nov.

Federal Grants, Tax Breaks Help Reduce Tuition Pain (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on October 28, 2010 By rohit

Recent–and possibly temporary–improvements to federal financial aid and tax benefits have cut the tuition price most full-time students are actually paying for college this year to levels lower than they’ve been over most of the last decade, the College Board reported today. Although the average published in-state tuition for full-time students at public universities rose by $470 to an average of $7,610 for the fall of 2010, the typical student ended up paying only $1,540 out of pocket. That’s a $400 increase over 2009, but lower than the $2,000-or-so average net price (after controlling for inflation) that students paid annually in the 10 years prior to that, the College Board found