Daily Aid 93: Jobs, financial aid, and crime Student Financial Aid News From the Chronicle: Officials in at least two states are looking into the abrupt closing last week of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, an occupational school with 26 campuses that cited the dwindling availability of priva...

Daily Aid 71: How to find a job in a tough economy Student Financial Aid News In a sign of how dire things are becoming in higher education, Forbes magazine comes out swinging against college education being worth it and Brandeis University announces its intent to shutter its art museum and selling ...

Daily Aid 69: Jobcast, student loans, micro-resume Student Financial Aid News From Inside Higher Ed: This year’s freshmen are about as likely to rely on family resources as first-years did in 2001, but they’re also turning to self-sufficiency: 49.4 percent of freshmen say they plan on getting a ...

Daily Aid 66: Disappearing scholarships, Great Depression idea that works Student Financial Aid News More scholarships are vanishing. From NASFAA: “The University of Wisconsin-Superior will award about $100,000 less in endowed scholarships this fall. Dozens of employees at Marian University in...

Daily Aid 51: Financial aid trends Student Financial Aid News From Inside Higher Ed: Arne Duncan, the superintendent of schools in Chicago, is expected to be named today by President-elect Barack Obama as his pick for education secretary, The New York Times reported. Duncan is well regarded by advoc...

The Coming Financial Aid Crisis, Part 2 in a Series In the first part of this discussion on the coming financial aid crisis, we talked about Pell Grant shortfalls and increased demand due to enrollments. Let’s dig into some heavier economic data to see what may lie ahead. Here’s a chart ...

Daily Aid 30: State of the student loan industry Student Financial Aid News From NASFAA and the Chronicle: “This year’s growth in the Education Department’s direct-lending system could be replicated in 2009, possibly leaving the now-dominant bank-based system as the minority suppli...

Daily Aid 29: The credit crisis hits college campuses Student Financial Aid News From NASFAA and the AP: “The credit crunch has officially arrived on campus,” the Associated Press reports. “In a new survey, private colleges report their students are finding it significantly harder ...

FAP880: Economy, scholarships, shortfalls, free stuff Listen now: Student Financial Aid News From NASFAA: “It’s ‘the mother of all shortfalls,’ according to one Washington insider. Others worry that it may get lost amid the nation’s larger financial crises involving ban...

Daily Aid 26: How to understand how the economy is really doing Eye on the Economy I want to do a special today to give you some tools for understanding the market a little better, some things to keep an eye on, and some explanations so that when you see financial news in the headlines, you know whe...