financial aid

We all know college has a hefty price tag that leaves many families up to their ears in debt. And the recession has parents more strapped for cash than ever, though many are not necessarily needy enough to qualify for financial aid.

Rather than lose smart students to cheaper schools,…

THE University of Washington is a state institution, although that's getting hard to believe any more. In 1970 the state covered more than 70 percent of the costs associated with a student getting a bachelor's degree. In the '80s that slipped to just 50 percent.
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In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in “Animal House”), E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, keeps a framed quotation that reads, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”

The state is prepared to award 3,000 scholarships of $1,000 each to high school seniors and college students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, math and health care. The application deadline is April 16.

The Department of Defense appears to have softened a new memorandum of understanding for colleges participating in tuition assistance programs for active duty military service members, eliminating provisions that some campus officials said went too far in trying to influence college policies on…

Requests for financial aid at Everett Community College have nearly doubled in the past four years, with 12,000 requests made so far this school year.

That number could reach 14,000 by June, the end of the academic year, college officials say. Just four years ago,…

State Rep. Chris Reykdal and Sen. David Frockt are proposing a 1 percent state tax on corporate and personal incomes in exchange for killing off the state business and occupation tax and reducing the state sales tax.

The bill language is still being finalized, but Reykdal, a Tumwater…

Higher education financial aid programs may suffer with or without state cuts, leaving college students with fewer options.

“They’re not decisions any of us would say we want to do. But in the scope of bad decisions, it has the least impact, and that’s what we’re trying to do,” Sen.…

Only one-tenth of 1 percent of college entrants, and only three-tenths of 1 percent of bachelor’s degree recipients, accumulate more than $100,000 in undergraduate student debt. If you have more than $75,000 in undergraduate debt, you are the 1 percent – just not the 1 percent you might have…