Tuition Ignition postscript: Looking back at a week of stories
2:45 PM 5/21/2010
Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions
If you've read this week's Tuition Ignition series closely, you may have wondered why we didn't include community colleges or for-profit private institutions, such as University of...
The aid gap: Why grants can't keep up with tuition spikes
8:00 AM 5/20/2010
Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions
Need-based federal Pell Grants make up a crucial piece of aid for many low-income students. But look no further than any recent grad's latest loan statement, and you'll see that even...
Why state school tuition continues to soar
9:30 AM 5/18/2010
Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions
Things are bleak for students at the University of Washington, where tuition ratcheted up 16% this year and is poised to go up another 14% in the fall -- raising the price tag by more...
Tuition Ignition: Soaring costs, shrinking aid -- and who's to blame
9:30 AM 5/17/2010
Tuition Ignition: A week-long series looking at the soaring cost of college at public and private institutions
For many college students and their parents, finding ways to pay for ever-mounting tuition and fees is no easy task. So it's not surprising that graduates leave college with a growing...
Journalism students take a new look at plotting careers
3:30 PM 3/31/2010
It's no secret that going to journalism school ("J school") just isn't the value proposition it was even a few years ago, especially if you've always dreamed of going into the print end of things.
Traditional jobs at newspapers, magazines and TV stations are few and far between. Gigs writing for...
How to buy big, save bigger in college at warehouse stores
8:00 AM 3/30/2010
Odds are that at the start of every term, you find yourself running to the store and getting the same household basics that you just ran out of: toilet paper, laundry detergent, maybe pens and notepads for your classes. Beer.
But there's a better, smarter way of buying many of those goods than...
Landlord or slumlord? Checking them out before you write a check
8:00 AM 3/25/2010
Spend a year in many university dorms and you may be dying to move off campus into a house with more space, fewer rules and roommates that you get to pick. But before you sign a semester- or year-long lease on a place and hand over a chunk of change for the security deposit, check a few things to...
Money College: Seven ways to avoid credit card blunders
3:02 PM 3/12/2010
Perhaps no area of life affects undergraduate students more than credit. In this article, Money College writer Peter Sachs offers seven essential tips; please check out Money College's Katie Drews' insights into credit and college here.
What better way to take advantage of your new-found...
Students aim for first college paper iPad app
3:30 PM 3/5/2010
When the Apple iPad hits stores later this month, big publications such as The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal won't be the only ones with slick apps for reading their papers and watching videos. Add the twice-weekly student newspaper at Abilene Christian University in West Texas to your...
You've just moved into your sweet new house a half-mile from campus, free from nagging RAs, lackluster dining hall food and Draconian quiet hours that cramp your music-blasting study methods.
It's the end of summer and you happen to be the first person to move in, so you call up the cable...
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