March 27th, 2010 
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Recapping the news this week: Riding the health-care wave, the house has approved changes in financial aid. The bill rewrites a four-decades-old student loan program, eliminating its reliance on private lenders and uses the savings to direct $36 billion in new spending to Pell Grants for students in financial need. Reported in USA Today on [...]
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Recapping the news this week: Student loan reform bill still has not passed, however the Pell Grant funding will need to be addressed very soon. For great updates on the bill status visit HigherEd Watch Inside Higher Ed reported on Tuesday that Chase, the 2009′s fifth largest student lender, announced they were pulling out of [...]
March 12th, 2010 nicole 
Recapping the news this week: Leading off the show we discuss an interesting article that discusses the historical costs of higher education and some suggested solution on how to help students with costs in the future. From the New York Times an article discussing how the House Democrats are desperately trying to prevent another of [...]
March 5th, 2010 nicole 
In the news this week: We start off this week following up a story we discussed last week. The pre-protest for the March 4th event turns ugly in CA. Protesting across the country from students & faculty on March 4, 2010 The State House of Representatives have proposed channeling the mandatory fees students pay each [...]
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