President Obama just signed $410 billion more stimulus legislation which includes a payday for higher education–some of which will be aimed at helping college students.
Dollars and Cents
While many criticize the bill for it’s funding of government “pet projects,” it contains several different college funding changes, including:

Federal Pell Grants. $17.3 billion dollars [...]

Last week President Obama’s administration revealed the first peek at the 2010 National Budget, which is set to be finalized in April. While many areas of the budget proposal were lacking in details, the education sector received some very specific attention. Here is a brief breakdown of how next year’s budget could effect how families [...]

We have been following the new Stimulus bill for quite some time now, and last week President Obama was finally able to sign The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. The finalized plan has potential to impact higher education (and those of us with students pursuing it!), so, as promised, I wanted to summarize [...]

It seems students aren’t the only ones concerned about the economy. A group of over 40 higher education leaders–via a statement published by the Carnegie Corporation of New York –recently let their own economic worries be heard.
Dear President-Elect…
In open letter published this Tuesday in large, two-page ads in both the New York Times and Washington [...]

Since he took office in 2007, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been looking out for student interests–beginning with student loan investigations in summer of 2007.
Now Cuomo has his eye on possible connections between colleges and student health insurers. According to an article in the New York Times, Cuomo has subpoenaed reputable colleges such [...]

With the presidential race finally over and President-Elect Barack Obama preparing to take office in January, it seems a good time for us to begin discussing his plans for our higher education system.
Problems and Solutions
The President-Elect’s platform described what he sees as the most important troubles of our current higher education system:

Rising college costs [...]

Last week Congress passed another huge piece of legislation that may affect every college topic you can think of. Called the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEA 2008), the bill passed by 380 votes to 49 in the House and 83 to 8 in the Senate. I expect President Bush will likely [...]

A quote from the recent action movie, Transformers, has kids a little confused.  In a quick interchange between two characters, a tech-savvy teenage girl informs a government higher-up that Nokia, a popular cell phone manufacturer, is Finnish, not Japanese.
As it turns out, a significant percentage of U.S. college students are misinformed consumers—they have no idea [...]