INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA – MARCH 21: The NCAA logo is seen on the basket stanchion before the game … [+] between the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles and the Florida Gators in the second round game...
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Free Cruises, Hotel Stays And College Football Trips
Celebrating Young Man With Mobile Phone Winning Prize And Showered With Gold Confetti In Studio getty Feeling lucky? Try your hand at these five, free-to-enter travel contests, all of which could have...
Which Companies Provide Opportunity For Workers Without College Degrees?
SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA – MAY 17: A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retails store on May 17, 2021 … [+] in San Rafael, California. AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications co...
Jay Wright, Tapped For College Basketball TV Gig, Will Eventually ‘Try’ Coaching In The NBA, Rick Pitino Says
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – MARCH 26: Head coach Jay Wright of the Villanova Wildcats cuts down the net … [+] after defeating the Houston Cougars 50-44 in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tourname...
“Gainful Employment For All” Isn’t Enough To Hold Higher Education Accountable
getty The Biden administration is likely to reinstitute the Gainful Employment (GE) rule, a federal regulation which aims to kick low-value higher education programs off federal student aid. Critics o...
Rankled By Rankings? Blame College Presidents for Gaming the System
The Library Of Columbia University. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images) Getty Images Columbia University misrepresented its data and dropped in U.S. News Best Colleges rankings from No. 2 in 2021 to ...
“Gainful Employment” Could Shut Down Good Programs—Here’s How To Fix It
getty It has become clear that many of the colleges and universities that the federal government funds do not provide their students with a strong enough return on investment to repay their loans. Wit...
How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments
University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...
Between Cornell and Colgate, a Hard Lesson in College Economics
(Bloomberg) — Since 1824, it’s sat at a quiet crossroads of American higher education, surrounded by richer, more prestigious institutions like Cornell University and Colgate University. Now, ti...
You get some student loan debt erased, but what about the rest of it?
“January is going to be here before you know it,” says Damian Dunn, a certified financial planner and vice president of corporate financial wellness platform Your Money Line. Payments resume in Januar...
In the college sports pay era, women are emerging as big winners
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 6: Iowa guard Caitlin Clark (22) raises her arms in an effort to get the crowd cheering during the Women’s Big Ten Tournament Championship college basketball game ...
ACT College Admission Test Scores Drop To 30-Year Low As Effects Of Covid-Era Online Learning Play Out
Topline High school students’ ACT college admission test scores fell to a three-decade low in 2022, according to a new report released Wednesday, falling for the fifth straight year as educators grapp...
IBM’s former CEO downplays the importance of a college degree for six-figure earning ‘new collar’ jobs that now make up half of its workers
A four-year bachelor’s degree has long been the first rung to climbing America’s corporate ladder. But the move to prioritize skills over a college education is sweeping through some of America’s larg...
Lucy Bronze Credits US College System For Instilling Her With World-Class Mentality
Manchester’s British defender Lucy Bronze appears on a screen to give a speech after receiving The … [+] Best FIFA Women’s player award during The Best FIFA Football Awards 2020 cere...
‘I’m paycheck to paycheck.’ I make $350K a year, but have $88K in student loans, $170K in car loans and a mortgage I pay $4,500 a month on. Do I need professional help?
I’m the first of my generation to own a home and the first to earn this much annually and don’t want to mess this up. How, specifically, can a financial adviser help me? Getty Images Question: By the ...
Chinese Tech Billionaire Richard Liu Settles Sexual-Assault Case in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—A legal battle that Chinese feminists had seen as pivotal for the country’s embattled #MeToo movement ended abruptly just before a jury was set to hear the case in a Minnesota courtroom. R...
Debt cancellation got all the attention, but this Biden proposal could impact student-loan borrowers more, critics and advocates say
When President Joe Biden announced in August that his administration planned to cancel $10,000 in federal student debt for most borrowers, Allison Daurio felt some relief. Under the White House’s deb...
Why Would Anyone Take a College Course on Urbit?
That’s both a political question and a meta-political question. There’s a pragmatic question of how universities will react in the near to medium term to the explosion of distributed [ever...
Scottish Equality Goals Undermined As Top College Favors Children Of The Well-Heeled
A general view of St Andrews University and quadrangle, Fife, Scotland August 1984. St Andrews is … [+] Scotland’s first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world. (Pho...
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Biden’s Student Loan Relief
An Indiana public interest lawyer filed a lawsuit against the Education Department to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel billions of dollars of federal student debt, saying it would force...
Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: University College London
In addition, UCL offers 16 blockchain courses, primarily in computer science and engineering. The graduate programs are mostly in fintech: master of science in emerging digital technologies, master of...
Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: King’s College London
At King’s College London (KCL), the FinWork Futures Research Center examines the challenges and opportunities blockchain may lead. Similarly, the Finance Hub is focused on applied research of financia...
LeBron James Says Bronny Now ‘Wants To Go The College Route’
PHOENIX, ARIZONA – DECEMBER 11: Bronny James #0 of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers is greeted by his … [+] father and NBA player LeBron James after defeating the the Perry Pumas in the Hoop...
College Basketball Star Emoni Bates Released From Jail After Arrest On Gun Charges
MEMPHIS, TN – NOVEMBER 9: Emoni Bates #1 of the Memphis Tigers celebrates against the Tennessee Tech … [+] Golden Eagles on November 9, 2021 at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis de...
What will people do after getting $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt forgiven? MarketWatch asked readers — here’s the No. 1 answer.
Americans’ student debt loads are poised to lighten up and people are making plans on what’s next for their freed-up cash. Borrowers appear to have two prime targets in mind: getting current on their ...
When can I apply for student loan cancellation? How much will I get? Here are answers to some of the big questions.
President Biden’s highly anticipated federal student loan cancellation announcement last month created as many questions as it answered, prompting at least one major loan servicer’s website to crash a...
For Some College Football Teams, A Dismal 2021 Has Carried Over Into 2022
ATLANTA, GA SEPTEMBER 05: Georgia Tech head coach Geoff Collins gestures towards the referee … [+] during the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game between the Clemson Tigers and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jack...
You made payments on your student loans during the pause. Can you get a refund?
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. Hundreds of thousands of borrowers made payments on their federal student loans since forbearance began in March 2020, taking advantage of the...
Education Dept. cancels $1.5 billion in loans for Westwood College borrowers
Tero Vesalainen | Istock | Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday announced it will cancel all remaining federal student debt for former students of the now-defunct for-profit Westwo...
Opinion: This musician retired after making $170 million in the stock market. Now he’s sharing his secrets.
When a retired Boston Pops clarinetist gave $100 million to Boston University’s medical school last month, everyone focused on his unusual backstory. Edward Avedisian ended his career as an accomplish...