Archive for the ‘In The News’ Category

New Feature – In The News (5/26/08)

This will be the first installment of a new weekly post that I will offer to my readers every Monday. It will be dedicated to bringing you some of the more important or more enjoyable articles I have come across on the topics of college debt, college costs, student entrepreneurs, and other topics important to [...]

There May Be Hope!

I came across this article from the Chronicle-Telegram a small newspaper in Ohio. It describes a small school (Oberlin College) that has developed a new initiative to help out needy college students. The articles says: “The college has introduced a new program that will eliminate the need for loans for students who are among the [...]

Yet Another Reason College Students Are Poor

I came across this article (follow my link through Digg) from USAToday that talks about the ways that credit card companies are going after college students to sign up with them. College students are the perfect target because they are: a) Poor b) Competitive (need to go bigger and better with everything) and c) Desparate. [...]