FAP879: The Economy and Your Financial Aid Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid News Roundup + Parents: please, please, please if you have 529 plans, check with your investments advisor about its status and whether you should be doing anything with it. My advice - and I’m not a financial planner - is that if you will need [...]

I’ve been gathering stories from customers, consumers, listeners, and readers about the economy and its impact on financial aid. This response struck me as particularly heartbreaking: My husband and I just last month closed our two VA 529 account to have the cash now. Our sons are 4 and 1 and we’re just hoping we have [...]

Daily Aid 17: My Rich Uncle suspends lending, FAFSA stuff, PLUS loan rates Student Financial Aid News From Inside Higher Ed: In a speech tonight at Harvard University, the U.S. education secretary will unveil a proposal to greatly simplify the process by which students apply for federal financial aid. Under the plan, which flows from a set of [...]

As we commemorate 9/11 today and remember all that has happened since that day 7 years ago, I thought I’d do something different in terms of commentary on the day and highlight the economic impact of the day. I’d urge you to read the Congressional Research Service’s Economic Effects of 9/11 white paper. It’s a [...]

Google’s new web browser, Chrome, came out today at 3 PM. Here’s how the site renders… Looking good! Let’s see what Student Loan Network sites you can find using common student loan terms. Parent PLUS loans: Stafford loans: Student loan consolidation: Not bad - a few of our other services aren’t the Chrome-recommended choice, but glad to see a good number [...]

FAP871: State FAFSA deadlines, broadband scholarship, job references Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Forbes: “Corinthian Colleges is boosting its profits by increasing student enrollment, but the downside for the for-profit operator of North American colleges and trade schools is that it now expects an increased number of defaults,” Forbes reports. “‘During the fourth quarter, we [...]

The latest Edvisors eBook is now published, How To Find Cheap College Textbooks. This will eventually live at our new campus-based site, CampusX, but it’s of course distributed first to YOU, Financial Aid Podcast loyalists, as my ongoing way of saying thank you for your continued support. Download the book here: PDF file, 762 KB. Did you [...]

This time, I and my coworkers at the Student Loan Network made a brief appearance on WCVB Boston 5 about the MEFA student loan issues. MEFA customers, make sure you’ve maximized your federal student loans such as the Stafford loan and the PLUS loan, and if you still need a private student loan, investigate ours [...]

From time to time, I post jobs and opportunities on the web site. Here are two: #1: Hey Chris, I’m doing a batch of new HOW Tos and I’m looking for a new female VO (Voice Over) talent. Young vibe, conversational. Good for College age kids. If ya know anybody who might me interested in some [...]