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Five Things to Know About Your Student Loans
January 04, 2013 by William Frierson
The following post provides information on student loans, in case you need to get some or you will be paying some back.Over the next few months, many students who graduated or left school in the spring of 2012 will reach the end of their grace period and start repaying their student loans. Now is a great time to brush up on the basics of student loans.
Financial aid comes in many forms. Grants and scholarships are often called “gift aid” because they don’t have to be repaid. Another form of financial aid is work-study. Federal Work-Study provides part-time jobs for undergraduate and graduate students with financial need, allowing them to earn money to help pay education expenses.
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Strengthening the American Workforce through Innovation
December 07, 2012 by William FriersonThe following post explains a new initiative for career development to create a better prepared workforce in the U.S. for employment opportunities.St. Petersburg (Fla.) College engineering and technology student Tungo Harris has a plan: “I want to get gainfully employed — and I figure I will be after this — with a decent salary,” Harris told the Tampa Bay Times. Thanks to a new $15 million grant announced last month by U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis at St. Petersburg, Harris, a Navy veteran who is recovering from a brain tumor, can now get help in fulfilling his plan.
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More than 500 Colleges Agree to Adopt Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
November 30, 2012 by William FriersonCurrent and prospective college students now have a new way to examine financial aid when choosing where to get their higher educations. The following post has more information.I am pleased to announce that more than 500 colleges and universities (.xls), enrolling more than 2.5 million undergraduate students (thirteen percent of all undergrads), have committed to adopting the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet during the 2013-2014 school year.
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More than 500 Colleges Agree to Adopt Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
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What Is a Loan Servicer and Why Should I Care?
by William FriersonIf you don’t know what a loan servicer is, you may want to if you’re going to be paying back student loans. The following post will help you understand the purpose of a loan servicer and why it is important.So you took out a federal student loan and now it’s time to pay it back. I was in your exact position a year ago and even though I was working at Federal Student Aid, the student loan repayment process was overwhelming.
One of my first questions was: Why am I receiving federal student loan bills from a company rather than the U.S. Department of Education? If you have asked yourself a similar question, this may help:
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