With the fall semester approaching at warp speed it’s now officially scramble time for those looking to tie up loose financial ends.
At this point you should have already completed your FAFSA and received your awards letter from the school outlining your financial aid options, which may include the following;

Pell Grant
Scholarship (Institution or Private)
Federal Work-Study
Federal Perkins [...]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 25 percent of college graduates entering the labor market are getting jobs previously held by people without degrees. There are millions of job-seekers with degrees who can not find jobs requiring their degree types.
It’s not uncommon to find someone with an MBA in education teaching first grade, or [...]

New York TimesAugust 9, 2009
If you are looking for a sign of how strapped the University of California, Los Angeles, is for cash, consider that its arts and architecture school may resort to holding a bake sale to raise money. California’s severe financial crisis has left its higher-education system — which serves nearly a fifth [...]

Edvisors.com launches redesigned Online Education Community
Edvisors.com’s new design and functionality position it as the #1 community resource for elearners. The addition of community features allows students to compare online degree programs, rate schools and exchange ideas. To better serve students, the new design incorporates blogs (www.blog.edvisors.com), news feeds, forums and ebooks customized to [...]

Did you know you may be eligible to earn college credit just for you life experience?
A life-experience portfolio is a comprehensive presentation listing and describing all learning experiences in a person’s life, with appropriate documentation. The basic document is then used in assigning academic credit for life-experience learning.
So if you’ve learned a language from traveling [...]

Fall serves as the perfect transition between summer and winter while playing host to Halloween, the start of the NFL season, and of course the start of a new school year. Growing up in New England I also enjoyed the foliage and smell of warm apple pie wafting down from the dorms as I walked to [...]

Are you passive by nature or even a self described social leper? Do you feel more comfortable behind a computer screen than behind a podium or microphone? If that’s the case there’s certainly no shame in that. But when it comes to visiting a college campus you’ll want to tap into your inner loquacious self [...]

From Inside Higher Ed.
The extent to which the SAT is coachable has long been central to debates about the ethics of the test. After all, if tutoring programs that cost money help scores, there is an obvious issue of who will be able to afford such an advantage. For years, the College Board insisted that [...]