School will start before you know it, and that means college-bound students are preparing to move out of the nest on their own. Here’s how to make sure your student has all the necessities, without breaking your budget.
Check the List
If this year is your child’s first time living on campus, he or she has probably [...]

With families still feeling the effects of the recession, many of us are intent on keeping costs down anywhere we can–and as students continue to make college decisions based on price, many private colleges and universities have taken notice.
Record Lows for Tuition Increases
It looks like private colleges and universities are making a serious effort to [...]

Textbook prices have been increasing at twice the rate of inflation for the past 20 years, and while publishers have profited, students and their families are feeling quite a pinch. That’s why I was intrigued when I came across Book Renter (www.bookrenter.com), a website that allows students to rent their textbooks instead of buying them!
How [...]

Students may find it tougher to get a job on campus this Fall. According to the New York Times, the employment crunch has finally spread to student positions on college campuses–and that means bigger competition for work-study jobs.
What is Work-Study?
If you have a child attending or preparing to attend college, you have no doubt checked [...]

The higher education law passed by Congress in 2008 had several requirements aimed at helping with college affordability. One of those requirements was the creation of individual online calculators to be provided by schools to help figure the “net cost” (or what we call the “out-of-pocket cost”) of attendance.
Early Birds…
Though the law doesn’t require colleges [...]

Many of you have been responding to the latest poll with requests for more tips about how to save money, and since many of you may have summer computer purchases coming up I thought now would be a good time to start discussing how to save on those big-ticket purchases!
Desktop or Laptop?
Last summer I debated [...]

Parents aren’t the only ones worried about tuition costs for the upcoming school year–private colleges are feeling the pinch, too. As the struggling economy continues to affect the college admissions process, many private schools are wondering how to cope with the problem of higher application volumes but lower enrollment numbers. They have also faced a [...]

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 [...]

For years now we have been hearing the statistic that students who attend college will make an average of $1 million more in wages over their lifetime. It pops up in radio and TV ads, in college look books, and in conversations with other parents–and it makes us, as parents, really stop and think.
Higher Education, [...]