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The Student Financial Aid News Podcast is a free podcast providing timely information about financial aid, student loans, and topics regarding education, personal finance, and more. Primary Format : Blogs Language : English Also Listed as: City : Quincy State/Province : MA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Student Financial Aid News Podcasts Methings.com listings of Student Financial Aid News Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

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In today’s show, get a Points code for 20 Scholarship Points by subscribing to the podcast and listening to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP906: Parent loans, tax refunds, free stuff, Black Lab FAP906: Parent loans, tax refunds, free stuff, Black Lab Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Breaking - the Department of Education has canceled PLUS loan auctions. Through a notice in the Federal Register of March 3, 2009, the Department established an April 1, 2009 deadline for the submission of pre-qualification requests under the Competitive Loan Auction Pilot Program [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP905: Free healthcare, appealing for even more financial aid FAP905: Free healthcare, appealing for even more financial aid Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Breaking: updated rules for appealing for financial aid. Scholarship Update We gave away $10,000 this week. Jonathan J. 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Again, use our free eBook [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP890: Expert interview with financial aid consultant Reecy Aresty FAP890: Expert interview with financial aid consultant Reecy Aresty Listen now: In today’s interview, Reecy Aresty makes a return to the podcast with tips on moving around money for maximizing financial aid, a look at fixed equity indexed annuities, and much more. Disclosure: neither Reecy nor I are certified financial planners or CPAs. With a lot of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP889: Free Christmas Gifts, Financial Aid Roundup FAP889: Free Christmas Gifts, Financial Aid Roundup Listen now: Financial Aid Roundup MASFAA conference roundup parts 1 and 2. Did you get our new FAFSA eBook? Philadelphia loses a major scholarship. Sunday Evening Financial Aid! Scholarship Update City of Philadelphia scholarships directory. Eye on the Economy + How to save more money with a savings challenge Jobcast Internships note Rant + Saving vs. investing Free Stuff Friday + Free reusable [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP888: Rachel Schmidt, Cleveland State University Interview FAP888: Rachel Schmidt, Cleveland State University Interview Listen now: Expert Interview I had a chance recently to speak with the director of financial aid at Cleveland State University, Rachel Schmidt, about all kinds of financial aid advice, from finding scholarships to College Goal Sunday to appealing your financial aid award for more aid. A terrific 27 minute interview! 5 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP887: Scholarship Search Secrets at MASFAA Enjoy this session at MASFAA, and please feel free to share it. Scholarship Search Secrets View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Direct link to MP4 video file. Download the Scholarship Search Secrets eBook for free here. 5 most recent Financial Aid Podcast posts Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Did you enjoy this? If so, please consider [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MASFAA 2008 Financial Aid Conference I’m had the opportunity to share some materials at the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators 2008 annual conference, and materials from my presentations are here for you to enjoy. If you attended one of my sessions, thank you so much for being a part of the sessions, and please give me feedback about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MASFAA 2008 Financial Aid Conference I’m at the Massachusetts Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators this week, and materials from my presentations and others will be put here as they’re available. If you attended one of my sessions, thank you so much for being a part of the sessions, and please give me feedback about how the session materials can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP886: Mark Nazario, Cleveland State University Interview FAP886: Mark Nazario, Cleveland State University Interview Listen now: Expert Interview I had a chance recently to speak with the director of undergraduate admissions at Cleveland State University, Mark Nazario, about getting into college, what’s important, what’s not, and what students should be doing to improve their chances of getting into the school of their choice. A terrific [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP885: Financial aid crisis, student loans, free stuff FAP885: Financial aid crisis, student loans, free stuff Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup Federal student loan programs get a shot in the arm. A massive overview of the new GI bill. The Coming Financial Aid Crisis, Part 2. Scholarship of the Week The Assumption College Merit Scholarship Program was established to reflect the College’s commitment to upholding a campus culture [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP884: Online degrees, cost of college, free stuff challenge FAP884: Online degrees, cost of college, free stuff challenge Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid Roundup This week we talked online degrees with Adrian Marrullier. Go listen! Kim Clark had a great piece on the value of a college degree. We also talked about the CSS profile in depth with feedback from two financial aid administrators. A reporter asked this week [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP883: Online Degrees 101 Interview FAP883: Online Degrees 101 Interview Listen now: Expert Interview I got a chance to sit down and talk with Adrian Marrullier, EVP of Sales and Marketing at Bisk Education about the world of online degrees. We went over who online degree programs are for, who they’re not for, what’s involved, how to save money with distance learning [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP882: Cutting college costs, free stuff challenge, saving money FAP882: Cutting college costs, free stuff challenge, saving money Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid News Roundup + No gift cards this holiday season! + State of the student loan industry + How to cut college costs up to 50% + Part 2 of reducing college costs + Next week I release a public beta of our Scholarship Search Secrets eBook version [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP881: Credit crisis, Sallie Mae, FAFSA updates FAP881: Credit crisis, Sallie Mae, FAFSA updates Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid News Roundup From the Chronicle: Moody�s Investors Service has placed two colleges that invested in Commonfund�s short-term fund on a watch list for credit-rating downgrades and has issued a negative ratings outlook for a third. The colleges � Franklin Pierce University, Simmons College, and Suffolk University [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP880: Economy, scholarships, shortfalls, free stuff FAP880: Economy, scholarships, shortfalls, free stuff Listen now: Student Financial Aid News From NASFAA: “It’s ‘the mother of all shortfalls,’ according to one Washington insider. Others worry that it may get lost amid the nation’s larger financial crises involving banks and mortgage lenders,” Diverse: Issues In Higher Education reports. “But one thing is increasingly clear: Fueled by a declining [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Marketing Summit I’m speaking today at the New Marketing Summit. If you attended, I’d love to hear your feedback. Here’s the slides for today’s talk! PDF download. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP878: $10,000 Scholarship, The Coming Financial Aid Crisis in audio FAP878: $10,000 Scholarship, The Coming Financial Aid Crisis in audio Listen now: Weekly Financial Aid News Roundup + The Coming Financial Aid Crisis Scholarship Update + Student Loan Network $10,000 Scholarship Mail Bag + Wayne asks, what private student loan lenders are left? Jobcast + Keeping your resume out of the trash Free Stuff Friday + Google Voting Map - tells you all the deadlines [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP877: Wishful Presidential Address on the Economy FAP877: Wishful Presidential Address on the Economy After a rough ride on the markets, I thought a friendly voice might help a little, and in good fun, this is what I wish our politicians would say but probably won’t. Click the play button to listen now: – Good evening, my fellow Americans and everyone else tuning in, too. Today [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP876: Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Scholarship FAP876: Alliance for Young Artists and Writers Scholarship Listen now: Expert Interview + Bryan Doerries, Associate Executive Directory, Programs, from The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers + Doerries on scholarships, writing, and support of creativity in education + Award details at our free student scholarship search site 5 most recent Financial Aid Podcast posts Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP Extra: Student loans, AIG, credit default swaps interview on Talk Radio News I had the opportunity to discuss student loans and student lending, AIG, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and explain the credit crisis on Talk Radio News, going into detail about credit default swaps, subprime, Alt-A, and leverage. Thanks to Dan Patterson, TRN and ABC correspondent, for the interview. Listen now: Direct file download: MP3 file 5 most recent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP874: Student loan companies, jobcast, Free Stuff Friday FAP874: Student loan companies, jobcast, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Download the MP3: MP3 file Student Financial Aid News Roundup My Rich Uncle (ticker: UNCL) ceased lending this week. Lehman Brothers (ticker: LEH) is on the rocks. They may not survive the weekend. As a result, their private student loans subsidiary, Campus Door, won’t make it, either. Sallie Mae (ticker: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Economic effects of 9/11 As we commemorate 9/11 today and remember all that has happened since that day 7 years ago, I thought I’d do something different in terms of commentary on the day and highlight the economic impact of the day. I’d urge you to read the Congressional Research Service’s Economic Effects of 9/11 white paper. It’s a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Presenting at Inbound Marketing Summit I presented at the Inbound Marketing Summit on the topic of Should Your Business Be Podcasting? Here’s the video: Video streaming by Ustream The slides are located here - use these rather than squint at the video! Ims08 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Resources - Corporate The Financial Aid Podcast The Student Loan Network Resources - Personal Mitch Joel at PodCamp Toronto PodCamp Personal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP873: First Financial Aid Podcast weekly episode FAP873: First Financial Aid Podcast weekly episode Listen now: News articles from this week on the Daily Aid + California cuts budgets + College inflation index increases + Student loan inducements Scholarships this week + Anne Ford LD Scholarship + Echoing Green Fellowship + ZoomPanel scholarship Free Stuff Friday + Free tire gauge from Slime + Quaker simple harvest bars + Tide Total Care sample + Sailing Media [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to listen to the Financial Aid Podcast I’ve just published a brand new PDF guide to help you and your friends, family, and colleagues tune into the Financial Aid Podcast. 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[...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP872: Hurricanes, Education Finance Partners, Free Stuff FAP872: Hurricanes, Education Finance Partners, Free Stuff Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA/SF Chronicle: “Education Finance Partners, one of the companies at the center of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s investigation into student-lending practices last year, has abruptly ceased making student loans and is clearing out of its San Francisco headquarters,” The San Francisco [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP871: State FAFSA deadlines, broadband scholarship, job references FAP871: State FAFSA deadlines, broadband scholarship, job references Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Forbes: “Corinthian Colleges is boosting its profits by increasing student enrollment, but the downside for the for-profit operator of North American colleges and trade schools is that it now expects an increased number of defaults,” Forbes reports. “‘During the fourth quarter, we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP870: The History of the Financial Aid Podcast FAP870: The History of the Financial Aid Podcast Listen now: Expert Interview + A brief history of the Financial Aid Podcast and why we started this grand adventure + April 2005 was the first show + Started with FAFSA training internally + Everything changed in June 2005 with iTunes + Since then… 751,229 downloads, 5 eBooks, and tons of folks helped + [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP818: Financial aid makes tuition go up, Free Stuff Friday FAP818: Financial aid makes tuition go up, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: The nation’s largest student-loan company, Sallie Mae (ticker: SLM), reported on Thursday that investors had quickly bought up $2.5-billion worth of its debt. The sale was “significantly oversubscribed,” the company said in a written statement. + And the nation’s largest [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP818: Financial aid makes tuition go up, Free Stu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, authority FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, authority Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Despite last month’s unprecedented action by Congress and the Bush administration to shore up the student-loan industry, some of those state-authorized organizations say they may not return to the loan business this year, and others are cutting some of the borrower [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP817: Photography scholarship, state student loan agencies, au ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP815: Expert Interview with Dr. Allen Weiss FAP815: Expert Interview with Dr. Allen Weiss Listen now: Expert Interview + Something different today - Professor Allen Weiss from the University of Southern California and CEO of MarketingProfs + We discuss how marketing is working against your best interests, tricks marketing uses to get you to buy things you don’t need, and how to use marketing for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP815: Expert Interview with Dr. Allen Weiss", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/06/10 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP814: Veterans Benefits Summary, Veterans Scholarships FAP814: Veterans Benefits Summary, Veterans Scholarships Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: A pledge of free tuition in Denver has focused attention again on whether college students who do not have legal immigration status in the United States should be punished for that status. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Denver’s mayor, John [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP814: Veterans Benefits Summary, Veterans Scholarships", url: "http://www.financialaidpodca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP813: Emergency community college aid, Free Stuff Friday Image via Wikipedia FAP813: Emergency community college aid, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Four YouTube videos that make colleges cringe + Chronicle: Emergency aid for community college students. One of the programs, the Dreamkeepers fund, offers emergency aid to eligible students at 11 community colleges serving large numbers of low-income students. The other program, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP813: Emergency community college aid, Free Stuff Frida ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New eBook: How to write a killer cover letter! Thanks to the help of the Financial Aid Podcast community, and the team of folks who gave feedback, I’m proud to announce the newest addition to our catalog of publications, How To Write A Killer Cover Letter, a Student Loan Network eBook. It’s hosted right now at the graduate career center at GraduateCenter.com, but you [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New eBook: How to write a killer cover letter!", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/06/05/new-ebook-how-to-write-a- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP812: Free healthcare, free housing, and $80K salary jobs FAP812: Free healthcare, free housing, and $80K salary jobs Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: There is some confusion in the student aid community about whether FFELP loans made under the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 (H.R. 5715) would retain any borrower benefits. The Act gives the Department temporary authority to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP812: Free healthcare, free housing, and $80K salary jobs", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP811: Winning the College Admission Game Image via Wikipedia FAP811: Winning the College Admission Game Listen now: Expert Interview + Today I speak with Peter Van Buskirk, author of Winning the College Admission Game + Peter was the dean of admissions at Franklin & Marshall College where I did my undergraduate work, plus work at Peterson’s, and his own consulting firm + A fantastic 24 minute [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP811: Winning the College Admission Game", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP810: Facebook, green car scholarship, financial aid mailbag FAP810: Facebook, green car scholarship, financial aid mailbag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News Image via Wikipedia + Inside Higher Ed: SUNY Plattsburgh using Facebook applications for recruiting + Want to get into the college of your choice? Write them a Facebook app. Reminds me a little of one of the key factors in getting into my undergraduate college. + [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP810: Facebook, green car scholarship, financial aid mailbag", url: "http://www.financiala ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP809: Quack like a duck, pay for college FAP809: Quack like a duck, pay for college Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Free credit reports, scores, and monitoring from Transunion + Chronicle: the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation last week that would significantly expand veterans’ tuition benefits while providing billions of dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill awaits action in the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP809: Quack like a duck, pay for college", url: "http://www.financiala ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP808: Get $1 for listening to the Financial Aid Podcast FAP808: Get $1 for listening to the Financial Aid Podcast Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: After months of artfully promoting doomsday scenarios for the federal student-lending system, the nation’s student loan companies appear to have won terms from Congress and the Bush administration that could help both the lenders and the student borrowers. + The [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP808: Get $1 for listening to the Financial Aid Podcast", url: "http://www.fina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP807: Finding a summer job in a tight economy FAP807: Finding a summer job in a tight economy Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Citibank (ticker: C), one of the nation’s largest providers of student loans, has told a series of colleges in recent days that it won’t be doing business with them any longer. + The bank’s student-lending division, the Student Loan Corporation (ticker: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP807: Finding a summer job in a tight economy", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP806: Dr. Eric Abercrumbie on Diversity (EASFAA 2008) FAP806: Dr. Eric Abercrumbie on Diversity (EASFAA 2008) Listen now: A special presentation today from the EASFAA 2008 Conference. Dr. Eric Abercrumbie speaks to EASFAA on the topic of diversity in a 48 minute talk that is engaging, hilarious, and powerful. Laugh out loud, think a lot, and enjoy this terrific keynote talk. Dr. Eric Abercrumbie hails [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP806: Dr. Eric Abercrumbie on Diversity (EASFAA 2008)", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/28 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP805: Selling names, FAFSA EFC, MN SELF Loans FAP805: Selling names, FAFSA EFC, MN SELF Loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Two blog posts over the weekend for you to check out + Yesterday we presented the Veterans Administration list of educational benefits for surviving dependents of active duty service members killed in action + Also had a blog post on staycationing, some tips on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP805: Selling names, FAFSA EFC, MN SELF Loans", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/27/fap805- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VA Educational Assistance for Survivors Something important for today. This pamphlet, published by the VA, details the educational assistance benefits offered to spouses of soldiers killed in active duty. If you are a surviving spouse, you have up to 10 years to file a claim with the VA to take advantage of these benefits for yourself and your children, if [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "VA Educational Assistance for Survivors", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/26/va-educational-assistance-for-survivors/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP804: Veterans Bill, Student Lenders Return, Free Stuff Friday FAP804: Veterans Bill, Student Lenders Return, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Many student-loan companies are still assessing the industry-rescue plan outlined on Wednesday by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings (The Chronicle, May 22). Several that left the federal loan program, however, have seen enough and are jumping back in. + Even before the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP804: Veterans Bill, Student Lenders Return, Free Stuff Friday", u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website EASFAA 2008 Conference Photos Here’s a mashup of photos taken at EASFAA 2008, set to Audiopharm’s The Groove: These photos are all licensed under the Creative Commons license, By-NC-SA 3.0 US. This means you are permitted: To share them To modify them To re-use and redistribute them As long as you include this license As long as you credit FinancialAidPodcast.com and StudentLoanNetwork.com with every photo [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "EASFAA 2008 Conference Photos", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP803: Federal student loan programs back in business, Jobcast FAP803: Federal student loan programs back in business, Jobcast Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Big news yesterday - the Department of Education released a letter detailing how the student loan buyback program will work + 1% origination fee, par value, accrued interest, plus $75 flat servicing fee for all student loans + This is a big deal [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP803: Federal student loan programs back in business, Jobcast", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP802: New Media and Financial Aid EASFAA 2008 In this 44 minute presentation, I had the pleasure of speaking at EASFAA 2008 about how podcasting and new media can change the way that financial aid offices can communicate with their students. Direct link: MP4 video file (408 MB) Watch now: Slides: | View | Upload your own Resources mentioned: + Scholarship Search Secrets eBook (Fourth Edition) + The Student [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP802: New Media and Financial Aid EASFAA 2008", url: "http://www.financialaidpodca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP801: Live update from EASFAA FAP801: Live update from EASFAA Listen now: Quick Update + Four quick updates from the EASFAA conference + 10% - 20% of PLUS loan borrowers are likely to run into credit challenges in the coming year + Fix your credit sooner rather than later - check out our credit repair tutorials at StudentPlatinum.com + Institutional loans - school as lender [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP801: Live update from EASFAA", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/20/fap801-live-update-from-eas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP800: Stories from the Financial Aid Podcast FAP800: Stories from the Financial Aid Podcast Listen now: I wanted to take a few moments to celebrate five success stories from the Financial Aid Podcast over the past 800 episodes. These are all real, all true, and all great examples of the power of new media, the power we have to change lives for the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP800: Stories from the Financial Aid Podcast", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/19/fap800-stories-from-the-financial-aid-podcast/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP799: Perkins Loan problems, free stuff Friday FAP799: Perkins Loan problems, free stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The House of Representatives voted 256-166 Thursday to support a major expansion of education benefits provided to veterans who have served since 9/11. The measure now moves to the Senate. While support is strong in both houses � and includes [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP799: Perkins Loan problems, free stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/16/fap799 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP797: Financial Aid For Parents of Young Children FAP797: Financial Aid For Parents of Young Children Listen now: Disclosure: I am not a certified financial planner or a CPA. Please consult a qualified professional before making any major financial changes. The single most important thing you can do is to start saving sooner rather than later. A qualified CPA or CFA will be able to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP797: Financial Aid For Parents of Young Children", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/14/fap797-financial-ai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP796: When public schools cost more than private schools FAP796: When public schools cost more than private schools Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + SignOnSanDiego: Ivy League and other elite colleges may soon be cheaper for some of the state’s top students than California’s public universities. The governing boards for the California State University and University of California systems will consider increasing fees tomorrow for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP796: When public schools cost more than private schools", ur ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anna Ivey on College Wait Lists Friend of the Financial Aid Podcast and graduate admissions consultant Anna Ivey was recently interviewed by WCVB Boston 5. Congrats, Anna, on joining the Financial Aid Podcast as one of the local education resources! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Anna Ivey on College Wait Lists", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/12/anna-ivey-on-college-wait-lists/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP795: How to write a scholarship thank you letter FAP795: How to write a scholarship thank you letter Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “Citigroup Inc (ticker: C), hard hit by the global credit crunch, is expected to present plans to sell roughly $400 billion of extraneous assets when it meets with investors and analysts on Friday, people familiar with the situation said,” The [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP795: How to write a scholarship thank you letter", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP794: Massive free stuff Friday, scholarship secret FAP794: Massive free stuff Friday, scholarship secret Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “‘Financial aid’ most commonly refers to scholarships: direct grants that students need not pay back… policymakers are starting to admit that the system designed to make college more affordable is making it less so,” according to The Indianapolis Star. “Here’s why. ‘When [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP794: Massive free stuff Friday, sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP793: Writing effective cover letters that sell FAP793: Writing effective cover letters that sell Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Yesterday we did a special on HR 5715 - make sure you grab the PDF! + Inside Higher Ed: All the turmoil in the student loan industry has plenty of lenders and others worried, but you don’t need to lose sleep over Sallie Mae [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP793: Writing effective cover letters that sell", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/08/fap793-writing-effective-cover-lett ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP792: Special Bulletin: President Bush signs HR 5715 into law FAP792: Special Bulletin: President Bush signs HR 5715 into law Student Financial Aid News + Rather than do an audio episode trying to read what’s essentially a bunch of charts, I made a bunch of charts, just for you. Download HR5715 Simply Put as a PDF! Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP792: Special Bulletin: President Bush signs HR 5715 into law", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/07/f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP791: Skyrocketing meal plans, PLUS loans, loan indexes FAP791: Skyrocketing meal plans, PLUS loans, loan indexes Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Students are likely to see a sharp increase in the cost of on-campus meal plans this fall, as rising food prices have sent some college food-service operations into deficits and have forced many to get creative with their fixed budgets. As [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP791: Skyrocketing meal plans, PLUS loans, loan indexes", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP790: The Fed, TAF, APA, and College Costs FAP790: The Fed, TAF, APA, and College Costs Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Did the Financial Aid Podcast alter Fed policy? + The Higher Education Act expired on Friday. How does this affect you? It doesn’t, really. Everything is still working. + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com Scholarship Update + APA 20th Anniversary Psychology Scholarship + In celebration of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP790: The Fed, TAF, APA, and College Costs", url: "http://w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP789: PLUS Loan Moral Hazards, Free Stuff Friday FAP789: PLUS Loan Moral Hazards, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: HR 5715 approved - going through final phases now + Increase Annual and Aggregate Stafford Loan Limits + The bill would increase the following loan amounts for loans first disbursed on or after July 1, 2008: + Increases the additional unsubsidized Stafford annual limits [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP789: PLUS Loan Moral Hazards, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP788: Reputation protection online FAP788: Reputation protection online Jobcast + On the road this AM, talking about Google, personal brand, and keeping things clean Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don’t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Direct MP3 file download: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP788: Reputation protection online", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/05/01/fap788-reput ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP787: Using LinkedIn To Build Your Personal Network FAP787: Using LinkedIn To Build Your Personal Network News You Can Use + A session I did about LinkedIn, from PodCamp NYC. + Find me at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cspenn Watch Now: Slides: | View | Upload your own Direct video file: M4V for iPods file Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP787: Using LinkedIn To Build Your Personal Network", url: "http://www.financialaidpod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP786: How much student loan debt is too much? FAP786: How much student loan debt is too much? Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: If Congress wants more low-income students to enroll in college, it should provide larger Pell Grants to the poorest of them, says a new report out today. + The report, “Window of Opportunity: Targeting Federal Grant Aid to Students With the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP786: How much student loan debt is too much?", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/29/fap786-how ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP785: The Missing Free Stuff, Student loan troubles FAP785: The Missing Free Stuff, Student loan troubles Listen now Student Financial Aid News + Back from PodCamp NYC + Chronicle: Rarely does a president devote a national address to a higher-education issue; several experts could not remember one since a televised speech on student aid by President Nixon. But on Saturday, Mr. Bush reaffirmed recent comments by [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP785: The Missing Free Stuff, Student loan troubles", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP784: Local Scholarships, PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Act FAP784: Local Scholarships, PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Act Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Momentum has been building for the federal government to take increasingly aggressive steps to wade into the student loan markets, even amid continuing disagreement about whether and/or how serious a crisis there really is. At the urging of lenders, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP784: Local Scholarships, PLUS Loan Borrower Protection Act", url: "http://www.financia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP783: Special Episode - Earth Day FAP783: Special Episode - Earth Day Listen now: It’s Earth Day, a celebration of all things environmental. Here at the Financial Aid Podcast, we celebrate TWO kinds of green - green living, and the green color of money. Environmentalism is profitable and cost reducing, and today’s show features ways that you can be environmentally sound AND [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP783: Special Episode - Earth Day", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/22/fap783-special- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP782: What to do if your financial aid check bounces FAP782: What to do if your financial aid check bounces Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + From the Boston Globe: Checks issued by private student loan guarantee agency are bouncing. + Teri spokeswoman Beth Bresnahan called the glitch “regrettable,” explaining that the group’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization had frozen its assets, including money earmarked for checks already [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP782: What to do if your financial aid check bounces ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opinion: Cutting off community colleges from student loans is dangerous Listen now: Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 The recent announcements by some major lenders that companies are withdrawing student loans from colleges based on low graduation rates is likely to impact community colleges the most. Community colleges tend to have lower graduation rates than 4 year institutions. This is an incredibly [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Opinion: Cutting off community colleges from student loans is dangerous", url: "http://www.financialaid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP780: MEFA, 7 essential job hunting productivity tools FAP780: MEFA, 7 essential job hunting productivity tools Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + I was on WCVB again last night about this piece of news - MEFA, the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, our state-run student loan agency, is withdrawing from the federal student loan market as of July 1. + If you are a student who [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP780: MEFA, 7 essential job hunting productivity tools", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/17/fap780-m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times Listen now: Good morning and good afternoon. My name is Christopher Penn, host of the Financial Aid Podcast, and this is the Student Loan Network Live Roundtable: How to Pay for College in Uncertain Times. I have with me here today five experts from the financial [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/16/fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times Listen now: Good morning and good afternoon. My name is Christopher Penn, host of the Financial Aid Podcast, and this is the Student Loan Network Live Roundtable: How to Pay for College in Uncertain Times. I have with me here today five experts from the financial [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP779: Roundtable Discussion - Paying for College in Uncertain Times", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/16/fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Need an IRS Tax Return Filing Extension for Income Taxes? April 15 is the deadline for filing a federal tax return. But not everybody can meet that deadline. If you need more time to get your paperwork in, make sure you file a Form 4868, Automatic Extension of Time to File, with the IRS by the April 15 deadline and you’ll get an automatic six-month [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Need an IRS Tax Return Filing Extension for Income Taxes?", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/15/need-an-irs-tax-return-filing-extension-for-income ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP778: 206 Full Tuition Scholarships, HELOC FAP778: 206 Full Tuition Scholarships, HELOC Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + It’s tax day - reminders on Dunkin Donuts and your stimulus check + Inside Higher Ed: A few weeks after Harvard University announced a plan to reduce the debt or family contributions needed to attend its medical school, Yale University followed suit. Yale�s plan will [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP778: 206 Full Tuition Scholarships, HELOC", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/15/f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP777: Birthday, Sallie Mae Student Loan Consolidation, HELOC FAP777: Birthday, Sallie Mae Student Loan Consolidation, HELOC Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Happy Student Loan Network anniversary Monique Leonard! + The Financial Aid Podcast celebrates 3 years on the air! + Hat tips to Mitch Joel, Erik & Diana, and pretty much my entire address book for this story: + Chronicle: Sallie Mae (ticker: SLM) announced today [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP777: Birthday, Sallie Mae Student Loan Consolidation, HELOC", url: "http://www.finan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP776: US News and World Report, Free Stuff Friday FAP776: US News and World Report, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Hey, we’re in US News and World Report! + An article by Kim Palmer and a followup blog post by Richard Mondello + I thought it was a good piece, informative, except for this paragraph: + “But consumer advocates are concerned that students may [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP776: US News and World Report, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/11/fap776 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP775: Underwear scholarship, FAFSA, LinkedIn JobCast FAP775: Underwear scholarship, FAFSA, LinkedIn JobCast Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Yesterday we had a terrific live episode talking about the student lending crisis - over 250 people tuned in live, and probably three times as many asked if they could grab a copy later + Why yes, yes you can! It will be next Wednesday’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP775: Underwear scholarship, FAFSA, LinkedIn JobCast", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/10/fap775-unde ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Aid Podcast LIVE Today 12 PM Eastern Financial Aid Podcast LIVE Today 12 PM Eastern The regular Financial Aid Podcast will not air this morning, as we will be having the Financial Aid Podcast LIVE at 12:00 PM ET today, Wednesday, April 9. At noon, visit: http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/live Promo + Financial Aid Podcast Live: Surviving the Credit Crunch Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Financial Aid Podcast LIVE Today 12 PM Eastern", url: "http://www. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SREB GoAlliance New Media Workshop Slides I had the opportunity to present a 6 hour workshop on new media marketing to the members of the SREB GoAlliance last week in Atlanta. Here’s the slide deck from the academic portion of the workshop. SREB members in attendance will receive the audio accompanying these slides in a private email. | View | Upload [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SREB GoAlliance New Media Workshop Slides", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/08/sreb-goalliance-new-media-workshop-s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP774: TERI declares bankruptcy, private student loans, cost of college FAP774: TERI declares bankruptcy, private student loans, cost of college Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + TERI, The Education Resource Institute, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy last night. + Reuters: The largest not-for-profit guarantor of U.S. private education loans, on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying rising defaults and credit market problems have damaged liquidity. + “Because [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP774: TERI declares bankruptcy, pri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP773: Is your college degree brand worth it? FAP773: Is your college degree brand worth it? Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Charlie Miller, former Spellings Commission member, has come out with a huge article on Inside Higher Ed about the true value of a college degree + Substituting some of his own assumptions for those used by the board � including six years of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP773: Is your college degree brand worth it?", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/07/fap773-is-your-college-degree ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP772: Free stuff Friday, Lender of Last Resort, SREB FAP772: Free stuff Friday, Lender of Last Resort, SREB Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + At the SREB GoAlliance conference yesterday + Some revelatory facts - every 26 seconds, a kid drops out of high school + In some southern states, kids drop out as early as 4th grade + The causes are many - family influence, money, time, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP772: Free stuff Friday, Lender of Last Resort, SREB", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/04/fap772-free-stuff- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP771: Jobcast: How To Get Started Out of College FAP771: Jobcast: How To Get Started Out of College Listen now: Burston Marsteller PR agency’s Allie Osmar recently interviewed me for her show, the Creative Career, on what college students just graduating should be doing to get ready for a career after college. We cover tips like personal brand, LinkedIn, GTD, and more. This episode runs about [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP771: Jobcast: How To Get Started Out of College", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/03/fa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP770: Two new scholarship search secrets FAP770: Two new scholarship search secrets Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + AP Newswire: Seventeen of the nation’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday. + Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP770: Two new scholarship search secrets", url: "http://www.financialaidp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP769: Financial Aid Podcast April Fools Edition FAP769: Financial Aid Podcast April Fools Edition Listen now: How To Meditate Welcome to the Financial Aid Podcast meditation session, a 6 minute meditation designed to help you relax and de-stress during your workday, study, or whenever you need a break. The meditation itself is only 6 minutes, so it’s perfect during a lunch break or coffee [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP769: Financial Aid Podcast April Fools Edition", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/04/01/fap769 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP768: Determining which college is cheapest, YouTube Scholarship FAP768: Determining which college is cheapest, YouTube Scholarship Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: According to a new nationwide survey conducted through The Chronicle/Gallup Panel, 42 percent of Americans think that controlling college costs is “extremely important” for the next president to address, ahead of higher-education issues such as quality, college access for low-income students, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP768: Determining which college i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP767: Going green on Free Stuff Friday, Earth Day 2008 FAP767: Going green on Free Stuff Friday, Earth Day 2008 Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: “Banks are marketing aggressively through a variety of channels. They’re calling students on the phone, they’re mailing to students, and they’re using a combination of on-campus and off-campus tables where they give away products, ranging from offers [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP767: Going green on Free Stuff Friday, Earth Day 2008", url: "http ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP766: Admissions Wait Lists and Using LinkedIn FAP766: Admissions Wait Lists and Using LinkedIn Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Got some awesome mail to start my day from Nolan in Oregon: Thank you very much for publishing your Ebook on scholarships and making it free for students like me to access. Although I am a senior this year, I have enjoyed the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP766: Admissions Wait Lists and Using LinkedIn", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/27/fap766-admissions-wait-lists-and-using-li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP765: Student Loan TV Coverage of Scholarship eBook FAP765: Student Loan TV Coverage of Scholarship eBook As promised earlier in the week, here’s the recent coverage of the Scholarship Search Secrets eBook in video - it’s about 52 MB and should be viewable on iPods and in iTunes. If you’d prefer to watch on the web, there’s a YouTube version and a high quality [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP765: Student Loan TV Coverage of Scholarship eBook", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/26/fap765-student-loa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP764: Marketing Yourself for Scholarship Dollars FAP764: Marketing Yourself for Scholarship Dollars Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Brazos Higher Education Service Corp., the fourth largest holder of guaranteed student loans, announced that it would no longer issue new student loans, Bloomberg reported. Brazos officials said that they hoped to re-enter the loan field if the credit crunch eases. + Chronicle: Financial [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP764: Marketing Yourself for Scholarship Dollars", url: "http://www.fina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scholarship Search Secrets on WCVB Boston 5 WCVB Boston 5 featured our free eBook, Scholarship Search Secrets, on the Six O’Clock News. The Student Loan Network has a series of resources that can help you in your search for college funding: Scholarship Search Secrets eBook FAFSA Form Tutorial eBook Personal Finance First Aid Kit ebook Special thanks to Bianca de la Garza of TheBostonChannel.com, as well as [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Scholarship Search Secrets on WCVB Boston 5", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP763: The Dark Side of No-Loan College Admissions FAP763: The Dark Side of No-Loan College Admissions Student Financial Aid News + Great analysis piece on Inside Higher Ed about the darker side of colleges going no-loan + For colleges that go no-loan without being need-blind without changing the total amount of aid awarded, you effectively have more financial aid going to fewer students + Quick primer: need [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP763: The Dark Side of No-Loan College Admissions", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP762: Free Stuff Friday, federal student loans FAP762: Free iced coffee at Dunkin Donuts, federal student loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Several financial companies that have formed partnerships with colleges in the “school as lender” program are cutting or terminating the scholarship payments they make to colleges, dealing another severe blow to a program already facing the possibility of elimination [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP762: Free Stuff Friday, federal student loans", url: "http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP761: Jobcast - How to find a job quickly FAP761: Jobcast - How to find a job quickly Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + The 91 day T-Bill last night closed at 0.59% - a record low + If you have variable rate federal student loans from before July 1, 2006, this is good news for you - if T-Bills stay this low, your interest rates [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP761: Jobcast - How to find a job quickly", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/20/fap761-jobcast-how-to-find-a-job-quickly/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP760: 3 Things You Must Know From Your Financial Aid Award Letter FAP760: 3 Things You Must Know From Your Financial Aid Award Letter Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: It probably won’t surprise too many people that a new federal report shows sizable increases in borrowing of federal loans by undergraduate students. But the extent of the borrowing, and the changes in who is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP760: 3 Things You Must Know From Your Financial Aid Award Letter", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP759: FAFSA, Returning Loan Money, Mail Bag FAP759: FAFSA, Returning Loan Money, Mail Bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Two more colleges have joined the growing number pledging to eliminate student loans for low-income students. Claremont McKenna College announced Monday that it would eliminate loans from the aid packages of all current and new students, effective this coming fall. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP759: FAFSA, Returning Loan Money, Mail Bag", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP758: Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Mail Bag FAP758: Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Mail Bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Bear Stearns (ticker: BSC), the investment bank, disappeared over the weekend. After a major stock crash on Friday, the 85 year old bank was bought by JP Morgan Chase (ticker: JPM). People with investments with Bear Stearns will have those investments and accounts [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP758: Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Mail Bag", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/17/fap758-bear-stea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Congress cut subsidies to private lenders while tightening rules on how they operate. More than a dozen lenders have already announced that they are leaving or scaling back their participation in the federally guaranteed loan program, and many more could follow. + [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Congress cut subsidies to private lenders while tightening rules on how they operate. More than a dozen lenders have already announced that they are leaving or scaling back their participation in the federally guaranteed loan program, and many more could follow. + [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP757: Free coffee, free food, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Vassar College announced Tuesday that it is eliminating loans from the aid packages of students with family incomes of up to $60,000. While a number of prominent private colleges have been making such announcements, Vassar is one of relatively [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP755: How to write effective scholarship essays", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/12/fap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP754: 7 Ways To Leverage Your Social Media Resume FAP754: 7 Ways To Leverage Your Social Media Resume Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Made it into the New York Times! More on that in the Jobcast + Inside Higher Ed: The Utah Tax Commission has ruled that textbooks sold in college bookstores are part of the educational mission of colleges and thus are tax [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP754: 7 Ways To Leverage Your Social Media Resume", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/11/fap754-7-ways-to-leverage-your-social-m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP753: 6 ideas to pay for college FAP753: 6 ideas to pay for college Listen now: Student Financial Aid News+ Boston Globe: Nearly 30 percent of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will not pay tuition next academic year under a far-reaching financial aid initiative announced today, the latest in a host of expanded need-based programs at elite colleges and universities. + In [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP753: 6 ideas to pay for college", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/10/fap7 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Super cheap living: popcorn My wife and I recently watched an episode of Good Eats, and the subject was homemade popcorn. Let me tell you right now, folks, that homemade popcorn is better tasting, healthier, and much cheaper than anything you’ll buy in the store by far. Far be it for me to turn the podcast into a cooking show, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Super cheap living: popcorn", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/08/super-cheap-living-popcorn/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP752: Free stuff Friday, New England student loan troubles FAP752: Free stuff Friday, New England student loan troubles Student Financial Aid News + Boston Globe: Amid a deepening credit squeeze and cutbacks in federal loan subsidies, New Hampshire’s nonprofit student-loan agency said this week that it will no longer offer private loans. The Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, which lent money to 42,000 college students last year, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP752: Free stuff Friday, New England student loan troubles", url: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP751: Out sick, Audiopharm FAP751: Out sick, Audiopharm Hey everyone, Chris is out sick today with a particularly nasty cold. Not to worry, he’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a great piece of music called “The Groove” by Audiopharm, from the Podsafe music network. + Private Student Loan Consolidation Promo Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP751: Out sick, Audiopharm", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/06/fap751-o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP750: Private student loan quandary, credit crunch FAP750: Private student loan quandary, credit crunch Student Financial Aid News + Mark Kantrowitz published a large list of lenders who have exited the student loan business, and it’s pretty sobering. + I’ll do my best to keep you posted about changes in the lending industry, but in a sign of how severe this is getting, the Secretary [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP750: Private student loan quandary, credit crunch", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/05/fap750 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP749: How I Got My Job, Private Student Loan Dangers FAP749: How I Got My Job, Private Student Loan Dangers Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: In a report released today that outlined some of the dangers of private student loans, the National Consumer Law Center reviewed 28 private loans issued from 2001 to 2006. The group found all the loans to have variable rates, with initial [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP749: How I Got My Job, Private Student Loan Dangers", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/03/04/fap749-how-i-got-m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP748: Why student loan companies matter FAP748: Why student loan companies matter Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + AP - Pennsylvania’s student-loan agency will temporarily stop making new loans through a federal program in response to a credit crunch that has created turmoil in the bond markets, the agency’s acting chief executive said Tuesday. + The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency decided two [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP748: Why student loan companies matter", url: "http://www.financ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP747: Free music video from Matthew Ebel FAP747: Free music video from Matthew Ebel Free Stuff Friday + Since I’m still on vacation, I thought I’d make downloadable this music video I shot last weekend of Matthew Ebel singing at AS220 in Providence. + There’s a YouTube version as well. + From the album Beer & Coffee by Matthew Ebel Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP747: Free music video from Matthew Ebel", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/29/fap747- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP745: Best of FAP: Financial Aid 101 Video FAP745: Best of FAP: Financial Aid 101 Video Originally broadcast on 12/21, I thought that, while being on vacation, this video is timely, given that it’s FAFSA season. Enjoy it! I had the opportunity and honor of speaking to a class of seniors at Trinity Catholic High School about the basics of financial aid. In this recording, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP745: Best of FAP: Financial Aid 101 Video", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/27/fap745-best-of-fap-financ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP744: How to avoid borrowing student loans FAP744: How to avoid borrowing student loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + I was on WCVB Boston 5 last night, which was fun. One of the questions that Bianca de la Garza asked was about financial planning for parents of young children - that’ll be a special delivery episode + Since I can’t find the video [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP744: How to avoid borrowing student loans", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/26/fap744-how-to-avoid-borrowing-st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP743: Jobcast: Top 6 job hunting tips FAP743: Jobcast: Top 6 job hunting tips Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “Brown University is eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than $60,000, after decisions by fellow Ivy League universities to bolster financial aid as their endowments grow,” The New York Times reports. “The university, in Providence, R.I., said on Saturday that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP743: Jobcast: Top 6 job hunting tips", url: "http://www.financialaid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP742: Roll your own newspaper, free song of the week FAP742: Roll your own newspaper, free song of the week Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “Education company Apollo Group Inc said on Thursday it was seeing more student loan applications rejected by lenders, which are focusing on credit quality after the subprime mortgage market’s collapse,” Reuters reports. “Because students have more than one choice [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP742: Roll your own newspaper, free song of the week", url: "http ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP741: How the Federal Reserve affects student loan rates FAP741: How the Federal Reserve affects student loan rates Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + SFGate.com: In a radical change to its financial aid program, Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. + In addition, the university will waive room and board [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP741: How the Federal Reserve affects student loan rates", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP740: Special - Active Duty Military Education Benefits FAP740: Special - Active Duty Military Education Benefits Listen now: I got a very special email yesterday from an active duty service member. Keith asked: + I’m currently a specialist in the U.S. Army and have several years before my contract expires. Before joining I obtained my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science. After my service is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP740: Special - Active Duty Military Education Benefits", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/20/fap74 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP739: How to read your FAFSA SAR Results, Iowa Student Loans FAP739: How to read your FAFSA SAR Results, Iowa Student Loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Des Moines Register: Iowa Student Loan Liquidty Corporation announces it cannot properly fund loans for the fall semester + Iowa Student Loan, the second-largest source of funding for students in Iowa, held approximately $350 million worth of loans for the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP739: How to read your FAFSA SAR Results, Iowa Student Loans", url: "http://www.financialaidpodca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP738: Debt is not wealth, FFELP loan availability FAP738: Debt is not wealth, FFELP loan availability Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + It’s Presidents’ Day, and in honor of this, I’ve got a widget on the Financial Aid Podcast web site for people to register to vote - if you haven’t registered, do so today so you can vote this fall + Inside Higher Ed: [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP738: Debt is not wealth, FFELP loan availability", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/18/fap738-debt-is-not- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP737: WSJ on Student Loan Availability, Free Stuff Friday FAP737: WSJ on Student Loan Availability, Free Stuff Friday Listen: Student Financial Aid News + I did some analysis on a recent Wall Street Journal article talking about how student lending for the fall semester could be in great danger if the credit crisis isn’t resolved by the summer Scholarship Update + University of Massachusetts Scholarship Search Engine + Hard [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP737: WSJ on Student Loan Availability, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.finan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP736: 5 Things You Should Bring to College FAP736: 5 Things You Should Bring to College Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Michigan’s Higher Education Student Loan Authority announced Tuesday that it would suspend its alternative loan program, citing the agency’s expected difficulties in borrowing the money needed to finance future private loans because of the “credit crunch” affecting the U.S. capital markets. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP736: 5 Things You Should Bring to College", url: " ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP735: Susan Mead, Director of Financial Aid, Dutchess Community College FAP735: Susan Mead, Director of Financial Aid, Dutchess Community College Listen now: Expert Interview + Susan Mead, director of financial aid, Dutchess Community College + Susan Mead talks about balancing work and school + Susan Mead on negotiating your financial aid award package Promo + 2008 FAFSA Update Video Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP735: Susan Mead, Director of Financial Aid, Dutchess Communit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP734: Innovative Ways to Pay for Student Loans, Securitization FAP734: Innovative Ways to Pay for Student Loans, Securitization Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: More than a million private records of students were compromised in campus-security breaches in the United States last year, and the number of colleges reporting such incidents was far higher than the previous year, according to a study that analyzed [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP734: Innovative Ways to Pay for Student Loans, Securitization", url: "http://www.financia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP733: The GI Bill and Veterans Financial Aid, CSS Profile, Mail Bag FAP733: The GI Bill and Veterans Financial Aid, CSS Profile, Mail Bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: If any college in the country had an incentive to respond to the growing pressure from politicians to make higher education more affordable, it might be George Washington University, which Forbes recently characterized as “the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP733: The GI Bill and Veterans Financial Aid, CSS Profile, Mail Bag", url: "http://www.financial ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP732: Higher Education Act Reauthorization, Free Stuff Friday FAP732: Higher Education Act Reauthorization, Free Stuff Friday Student Financial Aid News + The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming approved legislation on Thursday that would crack down on conflicts of interest in the student-loan programs while holding institutions and states accountable for rising college tuitions. + The bill (HR 4137), which would reauthorize, or renew, the Higher Education [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP732: Higher Education Act Reauthorization, Free Stuf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP731: Sallie Mae Credit Downgrade, HEA, Tires, Mail Bag FAP731: Sallie Mae Credit Downgrade, HEA, Tires, Mail Bag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + This weekend is College Goal Sunday for a lot of states + Inside Higher Ed: Posturing, panicking and backpedaling and, of course, politicking � all of those were in ample supply Wednesday as lobbyists, lawmakers and other players prepared for today�s House [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP731: Sallie Mae Credit Downgrade, HEA, Tires, Mail Bag", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/200 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP730: Jason Alba Expert Interview Part 2 FAP730: Jason Alba Expert Interview Part 2 Listen now: Expert Interview + We continue today with Jason Alba of JibberJobber on job search, reputation online, plus blogging, new media, and tactics for independent, self-employed people + Jason Alba is also the author of books “I’m On LinkedIn, Now What?” and “I’m On Facebook, Now What?” - both available [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP730: Jason Alba Expert Interview Part 2", url: "http://www.financia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP729: Video from Super Tuesday Massachusetts Primaries FAP729: Video from Super Tuesday Massachusetts Primaries Some early morning video from the Massachusetts primaries here on Super Tuesday. Click To Play Disclaimer: The Student Loan Network does not endorse any particular position, party, or person other than in general support of higher education. Any position or opinion expressed is my own and not that of The Student [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP729: Video from Super Tuesday Massa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP728: Large pile of mail in the mail bag, Bush 2009 Budget FAP728: Large pile of mail in the mail bag, Bush 2009 Budget Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Tomorrow is Super Tuesday - primary voting. In states where primaries are open and you’re eligible to vote, please do so. The official position of the Student Loan Network is neutral. + Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP728: Large pile of mail in the mail bag, Bush 2009 Budget", url: "http://www.financialaidpod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP727: CLC exits, Free Stuff Friday FAP727: CLC exits, Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Fifty states, the federal government, and thousands of American colleges and universities are about to face a test of their commitment to higher education, at a time when the country is under economic stress and high-school graduating classes are about to crest. + While [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP727: CLC exits, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/01/fap727-cl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008 Super Bowl XLII Ad from the Student Loan Network Some fun with Keynote on a Sunday afternoon led to this year’s Super Bowl XLII Ad. Click To Play SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "2008 Super Bowl XLII Ad from the Student Loan Network", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/02/01/2008-super-bowl-xlii-ad-from-the-student-loan-network/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP726: Job Expert Jason Alba On Your Career FAP726: Job Expert Jason Alba On Your Career Expert Interview + Jason Alba, CEO of JibberJobber talks job hunting tactics for new college graduates + Alba on resumes, blogs, and how to find work even in a downturn Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP726: Job Expert Jason Alba On Your Career", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/31/fap726-job-expert-jas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP725: $10,000 Scholarship Video I’m out sick today, but here’s a small video we made for our $10,000 scholarship! Click To Play SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP725: $10,000 Scholarship Video", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/29/fap725-10000-scholarship-video/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP724: Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2008 In Review FAP724: Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2008 In Review Listen now Massachusetts College Goal Sunday, the day when students, parents, and families can gather to receive help completing the FAFSA, has come and gone. I was proud to again be part of the Framingham site under team leaders Beth Feinberg and Iris Godes. This year, much to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP724: Massachusetts College Goal Sunday 2008 In Review", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/28/fap724-massac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP723: Free Stuff Friday Career Stuff FAP723: Free Stuff Friday Career Stuff Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: United in their common frustration with Congress, representatives of American colleges and universities and the U.S. Department of Education moved toward agreement on Thursday on several key points of a new grant program for aspiring teachers. + The two sides are discussing how to put the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP723: Free Stuff Friday Career Stuff", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/25 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP722: Sallie Mae, Nelnet in trouble, graduate financial aid mailbag FAP722: Sallie Mae, Nelnet in trouble, graduate financial aid mailbag Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + This Sunday is College Goal Sunday in Massachusetts. Other states will vary. I’ll be at Framingham High School, and I’ll be bringing my video rig as well. + Chronicle: Sallie Mae, (ticker: SLM) the nation’s largest student-loan company, said it will [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP722: Sallie Mae, Nelnet in trouble, graduate financial aid mailbag", url: "htt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP721: Expert interview with tax author Barbara Weltman FAP721: Expert interview with tax author Barbara Weltman Expert Interview + Barbara Weltman of the JK Lasser Institute + Barbara Weltman is an attorney, a nationally recognized expert on tax and small business, and a member of the J.K. Lasser Institute Team of Editors & Writers. Barbara has written dozens of top-selling business books, including J.K. Lasser’s Small [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP721: Expert interview with tax author Barbara Weltman", url: "http://www.f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP720: How to prosper in an economic downturn FAP720: How to prosper in an economic downturn Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Quiet newsday today because of the holiday yesterday + Chronicle: Two books published in France last week have focused attention on the phenomenon of young women moonlighting as sex workers to finance their university education, The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported today. + One [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP720: How to prosper in an economic downturn", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP719: SLM Layoffs and Salaries, Mail Bag FAP719: SLM Layoffs and Salaries, Mail Bag Listen: Student Financial Aid News + Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! + Listen to the complete speech and read the text + Inside Higher Ed: Bowdoin College announced Friday that it would replace student loans with grants for all students receiving aid to attend. Bowdoin currently provides need-based financial aid to [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP719: SLM Layoffs and Salaries, Mail Bag", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream Speech Here’s the speech in its entirety. If you’ve never listened to the whole thing, you should. It’s worthwhile. Listen now: Download the MP3 file SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream Speech", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/21/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream-speech/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP718: Save hundreds of dollars in Free Stuff Friday FAP718: Save hundreds of dollars in Free Stuff Friday Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Happy 39th anniversary to my parents + The Financial Aid Podcast January Newsletter shipped yesterday - if you’d like a copy and didn’t receive one, please email me! In this issue are three free eBooks, our $10,000 scholarship, and more. + Chronicle: Educational [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP718: Save hundreds of dollars in Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP717: Top 5 Financial Aid Scams FAP717: Top 5 Financial Aid Scams Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: The turmoil in the student-lending industry is beginning to worry some leaders of the nation’s public colleges and universities. + The American Association of State Colleges and Universities says that the presidents of several of its member institutions have expressed concern over reports that [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP717: Top 5 Financial Aid Scams", url: "http://www.financialaidpod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP716: Ted Demopoulos on Effective Internet Presence FAP716: Ted Demopoulos on Effective Internet Presence Listen now: Expert Interview + Ted Demopoulos, on effective internet presence + How to manage Facebook, MySpace, and things that affect your online reputation + Has impact on scholarship applications, and especially jobs and employment down the road Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP716: Ted Demopoulos on Effective Internet Presence", url: "h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Yale University will capture the headlines on college costs today, but an announcement from a small college in Illinois may point to a strategy that could affect many more institutions � and especially those without �berendowments. + Blackburn College announced that it will [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn", url: "http ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Yale University will capture the headlines on college costs today, but an announcement from a small college in Illinois may point to a strategy that could affect many more institutions � and especially those without �berendowments. + Blackburn College announced that [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn", url: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Aid Podcast Live Talk Radio Show today at 2 PM ET Financial Aid Podcast Live in: TargetDate = "01/11/2008 2:00 PM"; BackColor = "palegreen"; ForeColor = "navy"; CountActive = true; CountStepper = -1; LeadingZero = true; DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds."; FinishMessage = "Call in now!"; Today at 2 PM Eastern Time, I’m hosting a live talk radio show on [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Financial Aid Podcast Live Talk Radio Show today at 2 PM ET", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP713: Free Stuff Friday Overflowing, SLM, TED Spread FAP713: Free Stuff Friday Overflowing, SLM, TED Spread Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + The credit crunch might be beginning to ease - 3 month LIBOR and the Federal Funds rate are back in sync + If you’re an economics nerd, the cost of risk-free US treasuries and commercial paper are out of sync when commercial paper [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP713: Free Stuff Friday Overflowing, SLM, TED Spread", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/11/fap713-free-s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP712: Retraction, FAFSA process, student loan interest tax deduction FAP712: Retraction, FAFSA process, student loan interest tax deduction Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Update from yesterday’s interview episode - the FAFSA is indeed accepted by postal mail. Send it to: + Federal Student Aid Programs + P.O. Box 4692 + Mt. Vernon, IL 62864-4692 + Chronicle: A new tuition-grant program for future teachers is causing headaches for the [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP712: Retraction, FAFSA process, student loan interest tax deduction", ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP711: Expert Interview with Financial Aid Consultant Reecy Aresty FAP711: Expert Interview with Financial Aid Consultant Reecy Aresty Listen now: Expert Interview + Reecy Aresty returns with more financial aid consulting information + Hot tip: the FAFSA asks as of this day for some asset information so you don’t necessarily have to move assets (should you choose that route) within the tax year + reecy@paylessforcollege.com to contact him [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP711: Expert Interview with Financial Aid Consultant Reecy Aresty", url ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP710: Politics and the Election, Things You Should Do FAP710: Politics and the Election, Things You Should Do Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Financial Aid Podcast Live on Friday at 2 PM + Diverse Issues in Higher Ed: With a presidential election on the horizon, 2008 on Capitol Hill is shaping up as a year for quick action on budget, student aid and other education [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP710: Politics and the Election, Things You Should Do", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/08/fap710-politics-and-th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP709: FAFSA mailbag, SLM, casino scholarship, bankruptcy news FAP709: FAFSA mailbag, SLM, casino scholarship, bankruptcy news Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Detroit News: U.S. personal bankruptcy filings jumped 40 percent in 2007 due to rising mortgage payments, job losses and other financial pressures. + The increase followed a sharp decline from a year earlier, when a new law made it more difficult for consumers [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP709: FAFSA mailbag, SLM, casino scholarship, bankruptcy news", url: "http://www.financ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP708: Free stuff Friday eBooks and privacy, Higher Education Act FAP708: Free stuff Friday eBooks and privacy, Higher Education Act Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Members of Congress will tangle with some thorny issues when they return this month from their winter recess and resume work on the Higher Education Act, the major law that governs federal student aid. + Lawmakers in the Senate and House [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP708: Free stuff Friday eBooks and privacy, Higher Education Act", url: "http://www.financialaidp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-2009 FAFSA on the Web Worksheet Screenshots and Handouts for Financial Aid Administrators MorraLee Holzapfel requested screenshots of the 2008-2009 FAFSA on the Web worksheets for use during financial aid nights, and since I try to help out the financial aid community when I can, I’ve put together the slides in three formats. All of these are licensed under the Creative Commons License, which means that you are [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "2008-2009 FAFSA on the Web Worksheet Screenshots and Handouts for Financial Aid Administrators", url: "http://www.financialai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP707: How safe is filing the FAFSA online? FAP707: How safe is filing the FAFSA online? Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Gold at $850, Oil at $100 - record high prices indicate additional instability in the economy - the lessons for 2008 are already becoming clear. Be prudent with your money, and minimize debt. + Chronicle: Most of the nation’s top-ranking universities and liberal-arts [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP707: How safe is filing the FAFSA online?", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP706: Answering tons of questions in the mail bag today FAP706: Answering tons of questions in the mail bag today Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + The doors are open for the 2008-2009 FAFSA! + Inside Higher Ed: As a result of a new state measure barring students without documentation to legally stay in the United States from receiving in-state tuition rates, the University of Arizona has [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP706: Answering tons of questions in the mail bag today", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/02/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP705: A New Year Poem FAP705: A New Year Poem Listen now: It’s tradition for me to read a particular poem at the start of the new year for good luck. Translated by Stephen K. Hayes Did you enjoy today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don’t have to remember [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP705: A New Year Poem", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2008/01/01/fap705-a-new-year-poem/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP704: How to achieve your goals in 2008 FAP704: How to achieve your goals in 2008 Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + FAFSA filing opens tonight at midnight + Download our FAFSA filing guide Scholarship Update + The Timothy S. and Palmer W. Bigelow, Jr. Scholarship was created in 1988 by the Bigelow family to aid students from New England who are seeking a career in horticulture. [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP704: How to achieve your goals in 2008", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/31/fap704-how- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP703: Paying for financial aid info, Free Stuff Friday FAP703: Paying for financial aid info, Free Stuff Friday Mail Bag + Jim writes in: Hi Chris! A couple of months ago we listened in on a tele seminar sponsored by NSHHS (we think!!) talking about college finacial aid,all the forms involved and the gentleman said his company would work with you to maximize your scholarship/loan qualification [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP703: Paying for financial aid info, Free Stuff Friday", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/28/fap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP702: Student Loan Television: Social Media Job Search Jobcast FAP702: Student Loan Television: Social Media Job Search Jobcast Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to address a class of college seniors at Emerson College about using new media and social networks to land a job. This brief 15 minute video is a recording of the lecture. Many thanks to Amanda Mooney for helping to [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP702: Student Loan Television: Social Media Job Search Jobcast", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/27/fap702-student- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP701: Student Loan Television: Financial Aid 101 FAP701: Student Loan Television: Financial Aid 101 I recently had the opportunity and honor of speaking to a class of seniors at Trinity Catholic High School about the basics of financial aid. In this recording, you’ll hear the lecture as delivered. Many thanks to Emily Samek for the invitation to speak. Direct file: iPod version Click To Play Did [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP701: Student Loan Television: Financial Aid 101", url: "http://www.fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP700: Christmas Day 2007 FAP700: Christmas Day 2007 Today I present the audio version of the Holiday Gift Guide. These gifts are all free, so they’re appropriate to give any day of the year. 5 for others, 5 for you. Get the PDF here. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever you deem most appropriate, and thanks for listening to the Financial [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP700: Christmas Day 2007", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/25/fap700-christmas-day-2007/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP699: Christmas Eve 2007 FAP699: Christmas Eve 2007 It’s December 24, 2007, and virtually all the news sources, including the Financial Aid Podcast, are on holiday break. This is the show for today, a simple, quiet thank you from me to you, and the very best wishes for a safe, happy, and healthy holiday season. Whatever your circumstances, wherever you [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP699: Christmas Eve 2007", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/24/fap699-christmas-eve-2007/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP698: Student Loan Radio CoverCast - Matthew Ebel Set 3 FAP698: Student Loan Radio CoverCast - Matthew Ebel Set 3 Six more covers from Matthew Ebel tonight: + Train, Meet Virginia + Billy Joel, New York State of Mind + Tom Petty, Free Falling + Bob Dylan, the Watchtower + Ben Folds, Brick + Tom Cochrane, Life is a Highway + I Will Wait For You, from the album Goodbye Planet Earth Pick up [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP698: Student Loan Radio CoverCast - Matthew Ebel Set 3", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/23/fap698-st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP697: Free stuff Friday, NASFAA president, California Jails FAP697: Free stuff Friday, NASFAA president, California Jails Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has named Philip R. Day as its new president and chief executive. + Mr. Day, most recently chancellor of the City College of San Francisco, replaces Dallas Martin, who is retiring after 32 years [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP697: Free stuff Friday, NASFAA president, California Jails", url: "http://www. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Holidays from the Financial Aid Podcast! I thank all of you for all your support this year in making it a wonderful year, and I look forward to helping twice as many people, twice as much in the coming year. Thanks again. Video message - click the video to play. Happy Holidays! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Happy Holidays from the Financial Aid Podcast!", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/20/happy-holidays-from-the-financial-aid-podcast/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP696: Understanding What an Investment Is FAP696: Understanding What an Investment Is Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Haverford College announced Wednesday that it is moving to replace all loans in students’ aid packages with grants. At the same time, the college is creating a new endowment fund and asking (but not requiring) students who benefit from the change [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP696: Understanding What an Investment Is", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/20/f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP695: Earn some beer money FAP695: Earn some beer money Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + No news, unless you want to hear about the Student Loan Network company party Scholarship Update + The Mineralogical Society of America announces the MSA Grant For Student Research In Mineralogy And Petrology from an endowment created by contributions from the MSA membership. The grant comprises two [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP695: Earn some beer money", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/19/f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008-2009 FAFSA Screenshots and Handouts for Financial Aid Administrators Sue Forbes requested screenshots of the 2008-2009 FAFSA form for use during financial aid nights, and since I try to help out the financial aid community when I can, I’ve put together the 2008-2009 FAFSA screenshots in three formats. All of these are licensed under the Creative Commons License, which means that you are free [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "2008-2009 FAFSA Screenshots and Handouts for Financial Aid Administrators", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP694: How your personal brand affects your scholarship search FAP694: How your personal brand affects your scholarship search Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Yielding to pressure from the White House, Democratic leaders in Congress have grudgingly agreed to slash domestic spending for 2008, shaving hundreds of millions of dollars from proposals they had made earlier to finance federal student aid and academic research, [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP694: How your personal brand affects your scholarship search", url: "ht ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP693: Understanding the FAFSA4Caster results FAP693: Understanding the FAFSA4Caster results Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Bloomberg: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will declare a state of fiscal emergency under never-before-used rules that would force lawmakers into a special session to address a $14 billion deficit. + Democrats who control the Legislature have been saying that tax increases will be needed to fill [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP693: Understanding the FAFSA4Caster results", url: "http: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP692: Student Loan Radio Covercast - A Holiday Matthew Ebel FAP692: Student Loan Radio Covercast - A Holiday Matthew Ebel A holiday-themed Matthew Ebel CoverCast tonight! Listen now: + Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer + Mashup of the Bells + Wonderland, John Mayer + Don’t Let the Sun Go Down, Elton John + Crash, Dave Mathews Band + Amazing Grace + A Cautionary Tail Matthew’s album Goodbye Planet Earth is available at GoodbyePlanetEarth.com Did you [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP692: Student Loan Radio Covercast - A Holiday Matth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP691: Free TV shows on Free Stuff Friday, Credit Crunch FAP691: Free TV shows on Free Stuff Friday, Credit Crunch Student Financial Aid News + Get paid to do well? Inside Higher Ed: In recent years, many advocates for low-income students have worried that the growing popularity of Advanced Placement courses was placing disadvantaged students at a further disadvantage. + A new study of an unusual program in [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP691: Free TV shows on Free Stuff Friday, Credit Crunch", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP690: 10 Things About You That Affect Your Financial Aid FAP690: 10 Things About You That Affect Your Financial Aid Listen live: Student Financial Aid News + Bloomberg: Yale University next month plans to announce a student aid plan that could rival Harvard’s initiative to ease costs for “middle-income” families. + The governing board for Yale, located in New Haven, Connecticut, met last week to discuss the enhanced [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP690: 10 Things About You That Affect Your Financial Aid", url: "http:// ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP689: Home equity and the FAFSA, California College Tuition FAP689: Home equity and the FAFSA, California College Tuition Listen live: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Tuition and aid policies in private higher education appear to be quite fluid this week. The day after Harvard University announced a huge expansion of aid for students in families with incomes up to $180,000, three private colleges [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP689: Home equity and the FAFSA, California College Tuition", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP688: Scholarship Search Secrets eBook Released, Stafford Loans FAP688: Scholarship Search Secrets eBook Released, Stafford Loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Scholarship eBook is done! + Inside Higher Ed: Harvard University on Monday unveiled a new approach to financial aid and a new definition of “middle income.” The result will be substantially more generous aid packages for Harvard students with families of incomes up [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP688: Scholarship Search Secrets eBook Released, Stafford Loans", u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP687: A FAFSA Strategy Overview, State Financial Aid Cutbacks FAP687: A FAFSA Strategy Overview, State Financial Aid Cutbacks Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “A slumping housing market and skimpier sales tax collections will force as many as 20 states to go back and patch holes in their budgets in 2008,” reports Stateline.org. “Most states will muddle through the current economic slowdown, but if [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP687: A FAFSA Strategy Overview, State Financial Aid Cutbacks", url: "http://www ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP686: Student Loan Radio 6 Matthew Ebel Covers FAP686: Student Loan Radio 6 Matthew Ebel Covers Six covers tonight chosen by you, the audience. I asked folks on Twitter and MySpace for their votes as to which of the many, many covers that Matthew Ebel has done they wanted to hear. This show is the result. Piano Man, originally by Billy Joel, led the [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP686: Student Loan Radio 6 Matthew Ebel Covers", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/09/fap686-student-loan-radio-6-matthew-ebel-covers/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP685: CBA Conference Notes, Free Stuff Friday video tools FAP685: CBA Conference Notes, Free Stuff Friday video tools Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Pearl Harbor Day + From the CBA Conference via Inside Higher Ed: In a presentation on the impact of recent legislation on guarantors, P. Gregory Stringer, senior vice president at Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Inc., began by briefly outlining recent reductions, [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP685: CBA Conference Notes, Free Stuff Friday video tools", url: "http://www.fina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP684: Managing your financial aid office relationship FAP684: Managing your financial aid office relationship Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: The myriad legislative proposals and regulations introduced in the last year to govern the relationships between schools and student loan providers have left many dazed and confused. So it was welcome news last month when the Senate HELP Committee released its Committee Report [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP684: Managing your financial aid office relationship", url: "http://ww ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP683: Financial Literacy Expert Interview with Brad Barnett of JMU FAP683: Financial Literacy Expert Interview with Brad Barnett of JMU Listen now: Expert Interview + Brad Barnett, Senior Associate Director of James Madison University on financial literacy, federal student loans, private student loans, and marketing + Key points: discretionary spending can be cut back; one of the biggest, easiest opportunities is reduce the amount you dine out to [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP683: Financial Literacy Expert Interview with Brad Barnett of JMU", ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP682: An introduction to zero based budgeting FAP682: An introduction to zero based budgeting Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: As if on cue, the U.S. Education Department on Friday released data that suggest how much higher student loan default rates would be if they were reported over a longer time frame, as legislation pending in the House of Representatives [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP682: An introduction to zero based budgeting", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/12/04/fap682-an- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP681: How to avoid defaulting on your student loans FAP681: How to avoid defaulting on your student loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The Education Department’s “cohort default rate” � the rate at which student loan borrowers default within 12 to 24 months after they leave college � was initiated in the late 1980s largely to draw attention to institutions seen [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP681: How to avoid defaulting on your student loans", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP680: Student Loan Radio Christmas 2007 FAP680: Student Loan Radio Christmas 2007 A great selection of holiday music, mostly instrumental, for your listening enjoyment. Listen now: Podsafe Music + Matthew Ebel, Winter Bell Medley + Matthew Ebel, Walk a Thousand Miles + Benjamin Shafer, Little Town of Bethlehem + Benjamin Shafer, What Child Is This + Benjamin Shafer, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen + Benjamin Shafer, O Holy Night + [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP680: Student Loan Radio Christmas 2007", url: "http://www.fin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP679: How to write a 500 word scholarship essay, holiday guide FAP679: How to write a 500 word scholarship essay, holiday guide Listen now: Scholarship Search + How to write an effective 500 word scholarship essay + Here’s 529 words in a blog post I wrote recently + How fast do you speak? Most people speak about 100 - 150 words per minute + Tell a story + Structurally, what’s a good [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP679: How to write a 500 word scholarship essay, holiday guide", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/11/30/f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP678: Managing Financial Aid Deadlines, MIT for High Schools FAP678: Managing Financial Aid Deadlines, MIT for High Schools Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology�s OpenCourseWare program puts course materials online and makes them available free to anyone � in an effort that has been praised by educators worldwide for opening up MIT materials. + On Wednesday, MIT announced [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP678: Managing Financial Aid Deadlines, MIT for High Schools", url: "http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP677: Scholarship Expert Shayla Price Interview FAP677: Scholarship Expert Shayla Price Interview Listen now: Expert Interview + In today’s show, I interview Shayla Price, a senior at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Shayla has the unusual distinction of earning more than $100,000 in renewable scholarships, effectively paying for her complete education without student loans or a dime of her [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP677: Scholarship Expert Shayla Price Interview", url: "http://www. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP676: Private student loan market issues, job opportunities in a recession FAP676: Private student loan market issues, job opportunities in a recession Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + From the Houston Chronicle: First Marblehead Corp.’s (ticker: FMD) stock sank Monday after a Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst downgraded the student finance company, saying there may not be as much cash committed to covering unpaid student loans as people [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP676: Private student loan market issues, job opportunities in a recession ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP675: 2007 Financial Aid Calendar, Hillary Clinton on Student Loans FAP675: 2007 Financial Aid Calendar, Hillary Clinton on Student Loans Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Rose State College, a two-year institution in Oklahoma, is dropping most Friday classes to help its students � most of whom have significant commutes � minimize gas purchases at a time of rising prices. Up until now, [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP675: 2007 Financial Aid Calendar, Hillary Clinton on Student Loans", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Financial Aid Podcast #674: The MacBook Pro Speaks About Black Friday. Financial Aid Podcast #674: The MacBook Pro Speaks About Black Friday. Listen live: Hey everyone, it’s really late at night as I write this, so I figured I’d have the computer “read” this episode of the Financial Aid Podcast to you instead of risking waking everyone up. This is the voice of Alex, the text-to-speech voice that [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Financial Aid Podcast #674: The MacBook Pro Speaks About Black Friday.", url: "http://www.financialaidpo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Loan Radio: Guest Episode with Ed Roberts and Podsafe Christmas Ed Roberts from the Podsafe Christmas show graciously allowed us to syndicate the Podsafe Christmas 2006 show, so for your fill of holiday music, here it is! Listen live: Direct MP3 file Play List + “Give Me a Second Chance for Christmas” - Candy Butchers + “Some Christmas Huggin and Kissin” - Geoff Smith + “Making Angels” - Adrienne Pierce + [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Student Loan Radio: Guest Episode with Ed Roberts and Podsafe Christmas", ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP673: Student Loan TV: Matthew Ebel Live at the Roxy At VON Boston, I had the opportunity to record Matthew Ebel playing live at the Roxy. This is a segment from that show, the song Goodbye Planet Earth from the album of the same title. Get the album: Goodbye Planet Earth Did you like today’s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP673: Student Loan TV: Matthew Ebel Live at the Roxy", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/11/21/fap673-student-loan-tv-matt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP672: Facebook privacy, Scholarship Search Secrets Preview FAP672: Facebook privacy, Scholarship Search Secrets Preview Listen live: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: A new loophole was inserted with little notice into federal law last year to provide “financial aid for the rich,” according to U.S. News & World Report. The measure changed the way wealth is calculated to determine financial assets by [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP672: Facebook privacy, Scholarship Search Secrets Preview", url: "http://www.f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP671: College costs, FAFSA tips for the end of the year, Charlie Crowe FAP671: College costs, FAFSA tips for the end of the year, Charlie Crowe Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: With debate over college costs intensifying, a report being issued today is likely to infuriate higher education leaders. “Over Invested and Over Priced: American Higher Education Today” is from the Center for College Affordability [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP671: College costs, FAFSA tips for the end of the year, Charlie Crowe", url: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP670: College Opportunity and Affordability Act and File Sharing, Free Stuff Friday, Munk FAP670: College Opportunity and Affordability Act and File Sharing, Free Stuff Friday, Munk Listen live: Student Financial Aid News + An important blog post about Section 494 of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act which is a handout to the RIAA and MPAA, mandating that colleges enforce copyright instead of being protected like ISPs under the DMCA. + [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP670: College Opportunity and Affordability Act and File Sharing, Free Stuff Friday, Munk", ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP669: Expert interview with David Sheridan on DTC Marketing Practices, Adrina Thorpe FAP669: Expert interview with David Sheridan on DTC Marketing Practices, Adrina Thorpe Last day on the road for me as we wrap up the SREB Go Alliance conference here. Today’s show features an interview with David Sheridan of Union County College, who is also on NASFAA’s Federal Issues Committee. FIC has been investigating potentially abusive marketing [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP669: Expert interview with David Sheridan on DTC Marketing Practices, Adrina Thorpe", u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP667: Podcasting 101 Session from MASFAA FAP667: Podcasting 101 Session from MASFAA I did a presentation at the MASFAA 2007 Annual Conference on Podcasting 101. Lee Anne Hannula was kind enough to record it for me, and here it is, via Blip.tv. Click To Play The slides for this presentation are available. Click here, 37 MB PDF. Reminders + Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email! + [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP667: Podcasting 101 Session from MASFAA", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/11/13/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP666: Social Media College Application, Tuition, John Phillips Sousa FAP666: Social Media College Application, Tuition, John Phillips Sousa Student Financial Aid News + Happy Veteran’s Day + The OLPC goes on sale today and is available for 12 days only. It’s a very, very inexpensive laptop. For $399, you get one for yourself, and one gets donated to a child in a developing nation + I bought one [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP666: Social Media College Application, Tuition, John Phillips Sousa", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP665: Student Loan Radio 44: Becca Loebe at the Lizard Lounge FAP665: Student Loan Radio 44: Becca Loebe at the Lizard Lounge Listen now: Becca Loebe played a great concert at the Lizard Lounge on September 16, 2007. Recent events, like PodCamp Boston, conferences, etc. have kept me so busy that I didn’t get around to publishing it until now, but here it is for your listening [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP665: Student Loan Radio 44: Becca Loebe at the Lizard Lounge", url: "http://www.financialaidpodcast.com/2007/11/11/fap665-student ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP664: Safe harbors for your money, legislation, Free Stuff Friday, Planet of Women FAP664: Safe harbors for your money, legislation, Free Stuff Friday, Planet of Women Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives failed to muster enough votes Thursday in support of a 2008 spending bill for education and health programs to override a certain veto by President Bush. [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP664: Safe harbors for your money, legislation, Free Stuff Friday, Planet of Women", url: "http://w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP663: Economic Earthquakes, Using New Media to Get Into College, Matthew Ebel FAP663: Economic Earthquakes, Using New Media to Get Into College, Matthew Ebel Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + I’m trying to keep this from becoming a show about the mortgage loan market, but the financial system of America is being devastated by the foolishness of the mortgage loan markets over the past few years + Bloomberg: US [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "FAP663: Economic Earthquakes, Using New Media to Get Into College, Matthew Ebel", url: "http://www.financia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP662: Common financial aid scams, state budgets, Rayko KRB FAP662: Common financial aid scams, state budgets, Rayko KRB Student Financial Aid News + On location at MASFAA Annual Conference in Newton, Massachusetts + Inside Higher Ed: Election Day 2007 was encouraging for many colleges as a number of key bond measures passed, although one failed in New Jersey and Washington State voters appeared to be passing an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP661: Comparing student loans with Kevin Walker of SimpleTuition, Natalie Gelman FAP661: Comparing student loans with Kevin Walker of SimpleTuition, Natalie Gelman Listen: Expert Interview + Kevin Walker from SimpleTuition returns + Discussing how to compare federal student loans that have become commodities + Comparing private student loans + Reviewing private student loan consolidation + Comparing lenders may be based on brand and reputation as opposed to loan features Podsafe Music + Natalie Gelman, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP660: Pell Grant, FAFSA and Divorce, Speech Scholarship, Diana Page FAP660: Pell Grant, FAFSA and Divorce, Speech Scholarship, Diana Page Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: NASFAA asks that all members contact their representatives and senators by no later than noon on Wednesday and urge them to vote for the Conference Report on the FY 2008 appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP659: Final CCRAA rules, holiday shopping guide, Douglas Spotted Eagle FAP659: Final CCRAA rules, holiday shopping guide, Douglas Spotted Eagle Listen now! Student Financial Aid News + A major briefing on the CCRAA from NASFAA + Simplification of the deferment process that amends sections 674.38, 682.210, and 685.204 to allow a borrower’s representative to request a military service deferment or an Armed Forces deferment. + Accurate and complete photocopy of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP658: Interest rate cuts, temporary loans, single lenders, Matthew Ebel FAP658: Interest rate cuts, temporary loans, single lenders, Matthew Ebel Student Financial Aid News + Federal reserve cuts funds rate by 0.25% to 4.25% + Prime rate change to 7.25% + Upside: interest rates based on prime decrease + Downside: it seems the Federal Reserve is trying to stave off economic damage from the housing bubble by making lending easier, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP657: Haunted Halloween Edition, Black Lab FAP657: Haunted Halloween Edition, Black Lab Listen: Haunted Colleges + A tour of some haunted places around college campuses, plus a unique graveyard deep in the woods of suburban Greater Boston Podsafe Music + Black Lab, This Night Reminders + Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email! + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Discuss this episode at the Financial Aid [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP656: Did Craiglist get someone killed? PodCamp Boston, Matthew Ebel FAP656: Did Craiglist get someone killed? PodCamp Boston, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Daniel Johnson Jr. submits this from College Recruiter: Front page news in the Minneapolis newspapers over the past couple of days has been the killing of Katherine Ann Olson. While any murder is tragic, this one is noteworthy to employers and job seekers alike because it appears to be related to the victim's use of Craiglist to find a nanny position.+ Candidates who apply for positions with Cr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP Best Eps: Student Loan Radio 24: A great day for some pop music and a hike A selection of best episodes from the Financial Aid Podcast archives. Original episode show notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP655: Student Loan Radio 43 - 5 PodCamp Artists FAP655: Student Loan Radio 43 - 5 PodCamp ArtistsExtra special musical goodness as we play 5 artists who will be playing at PodCamp:+ Grace Buford, River+ Becca Loebe, There Tonight+ Natalie Gelman, Cross Your Heart+ Munk, Podpeople+ Matthew Ebel, Drive AwayReminders+ Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email!+ Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com.+ Discuss this episode at the Financial Aid Forum!+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP654: Affirmative action, Free Stuff Thursday, Metrology, Danielle French FAP654: Affirmative action, Free Stuff Thursday, Metrology, Danielle FrenchStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Senate fell short Wednesday of the 60 votes needed to proceed to a vote on the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which would offer a pathway to permanent residency for students in the country without documentation who complete two years of college or military service. In a statement on the floor following the 52-44 vote, the bill's s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP Best Eps: FAP486: Interview with Alan Collinge of Student Loan Justice, Jonathan Coulton A selection of best episodes from the Financial Aid Podcast archives. Original episode show notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP653: College tuition hikes again, conferences, Matthew Ebel FAP653: College tuition hikes again, conferences, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Financial aid to college students has increased by 82 percent over the past decade but still falls short of covering the average price of a college education, as the cost of attending the nation's public universities has continued to outpace inflation, family income, and sources of grant aid, according to two new surveys from the College Board.+ More than $130-billion in grants, federal loan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP652: Fingerpointing, FAFSA mail bag, Cleveland, Girls Stuff FAP652: Fingerpointing, FAFSA mail bag, Cleveland, Girls StuffStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: The board of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, or Pheaa, voted on Friday to accept a list of recommendations to reduce its spending on financial-aid programs in the 2008-9 fiscal year by a projected 58 percent, to $44.4-million. Those cuts would mean a drop in the number of students receiving grants, and less money for nursing students and educators, as well as adults in j ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP651: A Quick Talk on the Road - Economics 101, Catriona FAP651: A Quick Talk on the Road - Economics 101, CatrionaEconomics 101+ Understanding arbitrage+ Unequal pricing for equal items+ Most people do it every day - in regular parlance, it's just called shopping around+ Arbitrage extends to ways to make money+ The difference in pricing is called the spread+ If the spread is greater than the cost of reselling, then you will always make money+ If the spread is less than the cost of reselling, then you will always lose money+ When practicing arbit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP650: Massive identity theft, Free Stuff Thursday, Shannon Hurley FAP650: Massive identity theft, Free Stuff Thursday, Shannon HurleyStudent Financial Aid News+ Arizona Star: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he would like to link college financial aid to the jobs students pursue after graduation.+ He offered no specifics on what careers would warrant more money for a student during their undergraduate years, such as whether a future lawyer, doctor, teacher or social worker would receive more aid than a future economist or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP649: Entrepreneurship, Silly Commercials, CYOS, Shannon Hurley FAP649: Entrepreneurship, Silly Commercials, CYOS, Shannon HurleyStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Democrats in the House of Representatives are turning to YouTube � and an anthropomorphic dancing check � to promote legislation signed into law last month.+ In the 30-second spot, which is featured on the Education and Labor Committee's Web site, Justin Hamilton, deputy chief of staff to the panel's chairman, Rep. George Miller of California, plays a $4,400 check that is just trying to s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP648: Student Loan Radio 42 Backyard Concert with Matthew Ebel Major travel day for me today, so here's a concert with Matthew Ebel, part 1 of 2.Podsafe Music+ Matthew Ebel+ Buy Goodbye Planet EarthReminders+ Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email!+ Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com.+ Follow me on twitter!+ Discuss this episode at the Financial Aid Forum!+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com+ Student loan consolidation at StudentLoan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP647: Sallie Mae blinks, Schwarzenegger vetoes, Shannon Hurley FAP647: Sallie Mae blinks, Schwarzenegger vetoes, Shannon HurleyStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: Late Saturday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a series of vetoes on various bills � and in so doing dashed the hopes of student activists who have been pushing to make it easier for undocumented students to obtain financial aid and to pressure publishers and faculty members into changing practices that some believe contribute to the high price of textbooks. At the same time, Gove ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP646: Student Loan Radio 41 : 7 songs of the spirit FAP646: Student Loan Radio 41 : 7 songs of the spiritOn tonight's Student Loan Radio, I play native music from 2 American Indian artists, Native American Flute Ensemble and lute. Tonight's show was inspired by a hike up Nobscot Mountain in metrowest Boston to Tippling Rock. Tippling Rock has an interesting history - it was supposedly the seat of power for the Indian chief Jethro in the 1500s; from Tippling Rock, he could see the 8 Nipmuc nations scattered across the valley of what's now met ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP645: Breath of fresh AIR, Clinton, Farms, Allison Crowe FAP645: Breath of fresh AIR, Clinton, Farms, Allison CroweStudent Financial Aid News+ Len Edgerly sent in this Reuters story: Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton proposed eliminating federally guaranteed student loans on Thursday, a move that would shake the foundations of the $85 billion student loan industry.+ Lenders such as Sallie Mae, Citigroup and Bank of America do a big business in extending federally guaranteed loans to college students.+ In a campaign Web site pos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP644: The Sallie Mae Data Grab, NYS, Ag Scholarship, Matthew Ebel FAP644: The Sallie Mae Data Grab, NYS, Ag Scholarship, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent a new crop of subpoenas Wednesday to lenders that market loans directly to college students and families in ways that may mislead them, The New York Times reported. The attorney general's office cited examples of marketing materials in which lenders sent prospective borrowers letters that look like checks and others that say "Federal Lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP643: Expert interview with Sean McGivney of CSU Pueblo, Uncle Seth FAP643: Expert interview with Sean McGivney of CSU Pueblo, Uncle SethExpert Interview+ Sean McGivney of Colorado State University PuebloPodsafe Music+ Uncle Seth, You Don't Need an iPod To Listen to my ShowReminders+ Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email!+ Register for PodCamp Boston for free+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com+ Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com+ FAFSA fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP642: Sallie Mae, Learn to Cook, 25K Scholarship, Guardian Mind Mix FAP642: Sallie Mae, Learn to Cook, 25K Scholarship, Guardian Mind MixStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Sallie Mae (ticker: SLM) has upped the ante in its dispute with the buyers' group that has called off its $25-billion merger agreement with the student-loan giant. The company announced today that it had filed a lawsuit in a state court in Delaware seeking, among other things, a declaration that the buyers have repudiated the contract and that Sallie Mae may now terminate the agreemen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to make great coffee at home! Cranking out a money-saving video for you today - how to make great coffee at home! Click To Play For reference, $4/day = $1,460/year. That’ll buy an awful lot of stuff, or pay off a good chunk of a student loan. Share This Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP634: Sallie Mae Deal Falls Apart, Mail Bag, Rich Palmer FAP634: Sallie Mae Deal Falls Apart, Mail Bag, Rich PalmerStudent Financial Aid News+ From the Chronicle of Higher Education and virtually every other business wire: A $25-billion takeover of Sallie Mae that was announced in April was called off on Wednesday, the victim of a new law that will cut federal subsidies to student-loan providers.+ President Bush is planing to sign the law, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (HR 2669), today. Among other things, the law will cut sub ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP639: Leukemia walk, default rates, social network job search, Natives of the New Dawn FAP639: Leukemia walk, default rates, social network job search, Natives of the New DawnStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: UC Berkeley starting to offer course lectures on YouTube+ Chronicle: The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans to end a program that its supporters say has helped drive down the default rates on student loans.+ Under the program, the department reimburses a select group of guarantee agencies on the basis of their success in averting defaults, rathe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP638: Expert interview with Nancy Farmer of Independent 529 Plans, Kellys Lot FAP638: Expert interview with Nancy Farmer of Independent 529 Plans, Kellys LotFolks, this is the one I've been waiting for. It may not be the be-all and end-all of 529 plans, but it's close. Today I interview Nancy Farmer from Independent 529 Plans about the myriad choices for saving for college.Podsafe Music+ Kelly's Lot, DriveReminders+ Get the Financial Aid Podcast by email!+ Register for PodCamp Boston for free+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP639: Leukemia walk, default rates, social network job search, Natives of the New Dawn FAP639: Leukemia walk, default rates, social network job search, Natives of the New Dawn Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: UC Berkeley starting to offer course lectures on YouTube + Chronicle: The U.S. Department of Education has announced plans to end a program that its supporters say has helped drive down the default rates on student [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP633: Expert interview with Yvonne Gittens 2: How to get into MIT, Audiopharm FAP633: Expert interview with Yvonne Gittens 2: How to get into MIT, AudiopharmExpert Interview+ Part 2 of the Yvonne Gittens interview+ Ever wondered what a top school like MIT looks for in applicants? 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP631: Free stuff Friday for the iPhone, Sallie Mae, Dollars, Natives of the New Dawn FAP631: Free stuff Friday for the iPhone, Sallie Mae, Dollars, Natives of the New DawnStudent Financial Aid News+ NYTimes: The consortium that had agreed to buy Sallie Mae for $25 billion plans to return to the negotiating table and seek a lower price, people close to the group said yesterday. If the group fails, it may move to scuttle the deal.+ The buyers � the private equity firms J. C. Flowers & Company and Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, as well as two banks, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Amer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP630: Federal funds rate change, mail bag, Matthew Ebel FAP630: Federal funds rate change, mail bag, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Senate bill S 1561 currently in the Judiciary Committee, would allows private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy+ 5 year wait time in proposal+ Big econ news: FOMC cuts funds rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday+ What does this mean for you?+ Any loan based on the prime rate is based on the federal funds rate+ Funds + 3% = Prime+ Credit cards, mortgages, even some student loans+ LIBOR, wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP629: Expert Interview with Yvonne Gittens, new Matthew Ebel single FAP629: Expert Interview with Yvonne Gittens, new Matthew Ebel singleExpert Interview+ First half of an interview with Yvonne Gittens, the now retired director of financial aid at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.+ Yvonne offers some great scholarship and financial aid tips in this interview+ Part 2 next weekPodsafe Music+ Matthew Ebel, Lost My Way+ Pre-order the album Goodbye Planet EarthReminders+ Add the show to your iTunes by visiting http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/itu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP629: Expert Interview with Yvonne Gittens, new Matthew Ebel single FAP629: Expert Interview with Yvonne Gittens, new Matthew Ebel single Expert Interview + First half of an interview with Yvonne Gittens, the now retired director of financial aid at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. + Yvonne offers some great scholarship and financial aid tips in this interview + Part 2 next week Podsafe Music + Matthew Ebel, Lost My Way + [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP628: Facebook owns your life, private student loans, Rebecca Loebe FAP628: Facebook owns your life, private student loans, Rebecca LoebeStudent Financial Aid News+ NASFAA: "Kimberly Cummings remembers last spring when a young women walked into her office at Montana State University, concerned about having $40,000 in private student loans and an interest rate of 19 percent," reports the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. "'What is going on?' wondered Cummings, who works for the nonprofit Student Assistance Foundation, counseling students on college loans. What's goin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP628: Facebook owns your life, private student loans, Rebecca Loebe FAP628: Facebook owns your life, private student loans, Rebecca Loebe Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + NASFAA: “Kimberly Cummings remembers last spring when a young women walked into her office at Montana State University, concerned about having $40,000 in private student loans and an interest rate of 19 percent,” reports the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. “‘What is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP627: Planning for the 2008 FAFSA, Fraternities, Becca Loebe Live FAP627: Planning for the 2008 FAFSA, Fraternities, Becca Loebe LiveStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: To cut costs, the Department of Education will stop shipping the FAFSA in bulk paper orders.+ MacWorld reports that college students now have greater interest in buying an iPhone after the $200 price drop+ IHE: an unusual decision from a federal appeals court on Thursday is challenging conventional wisdom. The decision upheld the right of a public college � the College of Staten Island ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Loan Television: Wallpaper The Big E (aka the Eastern States Exposition) is in town in Springfield, MA through the end of September. One thing that’s always fascinated me has been how pre-industrial America functioned. This short video clip demonstrates how to make 18th century wallpaper. Enjoy! Click To Play Share This Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Loebe live at Lizard Lounge Here’s a video shot tonight at Becca Loebe’s concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Be sure to pick up her new album! Click To Play Share This Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP626: Free Stuff Friday will melt your brain, borrower benefits, Jodi Shaw FAP626: Free Stuff Friday will melt your brain, borrower benefits, Jodi ShawStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Community and technical colleges in Washington State could get a financial reward for improving their students� performance under a new plan approved by the state board that oversees the institutions.+ The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported today that the colleges could earn extra money every time a student passed a remedial examination, racked up a certain number of credits, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP625: Student loan consolidation benefits go away, Mail bag, Matthew Ebel FAP625: Student loan consolidation benefits go away, Mail bag, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: The proportion of minority students among American undergraduates rose to 32 percent in 2004, from 17 percent in 1976, but minority students' academic performance still lags behind that of their white classmates, according to a report released on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education. + Minority students face persistent challenges. In 2005, for example, more than a third ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP624: Expert interview with Tom Bottorf, Matthew Ebel FAP624: Expert interview with Tom Bottorf, Matthew EbelAn expert interview with Tom Bottorf of GetCollegeFunding.org on today's show. Tom talks turkey - the EFC, saving for college, and what to look for.CoverCast+ Matthew Ebel covering Tom Cochrane's Life is a HighwayReminders+ Add the show to your iTunes by visiting http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com/itunes/+ Register for PodCamp Boston for free+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com+ Stafford feder ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP623: RFP equals cash for college, default rate, guarantors, Lascivious Biddies FAP623: RFP equals cash for college, default rate, guarantors, Lascivious BiddiesStudent Financial Aid News+ It's September 11th. Moving on...+ Chronicle: Four years after promising to improve its oversight of the federal student-loan program, the U.S. Department of Education has received another failing grade from its inspector general.+ The latest audit concerns guarantee agencies, which are nonprofit corporations entrusted with distributing and monitoring billions of taxpayer-backed doll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP622: Consequences of student loan legislation, mail bag, Brian Setzer Orchestra FAP622: Consequences of student loan legislation, mail bag, Brian Setzer OrchestraStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: With the threat of a presidential veto no longer looming, members of Congress gave final approval on Friday to legislation that would provide the largest increase in federal student aid since the GI Bill.+ The compromise bill, which would slash government subsidies to student-loan companies and use the savings to reduce the federal deficit, raise the maximum Pell Grant, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP621: Economics 101: Risk Can Be Managed - Uncertainty Cannot, Bree Noble FAP621: Economics 101: Risk Can Be Managed - Uncertainty Cannot, Bree NobleOne of my favorite podcasts to listen to is Bloomberg on the Economy, published by megalithic financial services company Bloomberg LP. It's a great, often dense series of interviews with prominent economists, public figures, etc. Recently, Jacob Frenkel of insurance giant AIG had an insightful way of talking about risk.Risk is a probability of something happening, and then your ability to deal with that risk. There i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP620: Just how bad will new congressional legislation on student loans be? FAP620: Just how bad will new congressional legislation on student loans be?Student Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: Congress, fresh from a monthlong recess, wasted no time in getting down to business on Wednesday, offering a compromise bill that would slash subsidies to lenders in the government's guaranteed-student-loan program and use the savings to reduce the federal deficit and increase student aid.+ The bill, which both chambers are poised to approve later this week, would cut governmen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP619: Expert Interview with Gail Holt of Mt. Holyoke College FAP619: Expert Interview with Gail Holt of Mt. Holyoke CollegeToday we speak with Gail Holt, Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid at Mount Holyoke College in Springfield, Massachusetts.Podsafe Music+ Sera Buras, Funky LoveReminders+ Register for PodCamp Boston for free+ Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com+ Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com+ Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com+ FAFSA form tutorials and fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP618: Understanding the student loan refund process, NSA scholarship, Sera Buras FAP618: Understanding the student loan refund process, NSA scholarship, Sera BurasStudent Financial Aid News+ Welcome back to school!+ Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Education Department has been quietly proceeding with its examinations of colleges where all or most of the federal loan volume flows to one lender, giving a clean bill of health to at least two institutions so far. Administrators at Middlebury College and Lawrence Technological University said that department officials had visited ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP617: Free stuff Friday, Spring Break, end of summer, party photo tips, Audiopharm FAP617: Free stuff Friday, Spring Break, end of summer, party photo tips, AudiopharmStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: Connecticut�s attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, on Monday announced that three colleges had agreed to settlements over possible conflicts of interest and consumer protection laws in receiving payments from a lender in return for being listed as a �preferred lender� to students and parents. While the colleges � Fairfield and Sacred Heart Universities and Trini ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP616: Expert Interview with Dr. Paul Wrubel of TuitionCoach FAP616: Expert Interview with Dr. Paul Wrubel of TuitionCoachToday's show features an expert interview with Dr. Paul Wrubel, cofounder of TuitionCoach.com. Paul has spent his entire career in education. Throughout his professional life, Paul has valued education and the family. He often describes college as a "celebration of the family."For the past two decades, Paul has provided college admissions and funding advice to over 4,000 students and families. A former Principal of Gunn High Schoo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP615: Two Years After Hurricane Katrina FAP615: Two Years After Hurricane KatrinaTwo years ago, on August 29, 2005 at 6:10 AM, the costliest attack on American soil in history occurred, killing 1,836 Americans and costing over $80 billion in damages. It was not an act of war, nor an act of terrorism. It was a hurricane named Katrina.Katrina began a new chapter in American history, and regardless of your political beliefs, no one can deny that the storm made an impact that America will deal with for decades to come.Rather than loo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP614: Top 10 Back to School Financial Tips, Emma scholarship, mail bag, David Ippolito FAP614: Top 10 Back to School Financial Tips, Emma scholarship, mail bag, David IppolitoStudent Financial Aid NewsTop 10 (+1) Back to school financial tips1. You don't need a credit card on campus.2. Make a budget BEFORE the semester begins. Figure out what kind of money you'll be able to earn and what you'll be spending - and stick to it.3. Team up with a roommate, dormmate, or friends to enforce each others' budgets. The power of the group works.4. Go for a lot of walks on campus. You'll ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP613: Preparing for an economic downturn, Wisconsin budget, National Security Scholarship, Becca Loebe FAP613: Preparing for an economic downturn, Wisconsin budget, National Security Scholarship, Becca LoebeStudent Financial Aid News+ NASFAA: "The wide gaps in educational attainment between people from low-income backgrounds and wealthier ones tend to lead policy makers to a logical conclusion: It's about the money," according to Inside Higher Ed. "But a new study questions that thinking. The study, conducted by researchers at Berea College and the University of Western Ontario and available ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP612: Student Loan Radio 40: Inspiration FAP612: Student Loan Radio 40: InspirationTonight's theme is inspiration, songs to help you get motivated, songs to help push away the negative and reach out to everything that's good around you.+ Catie McKinney, Waiting for the Light (Unplugged)+ Audiopharm, The Groove+ Beatrice Ericsson, Put a Little Love+ Black Lab, See the Sun+ Kevin Reeves, Shine+ "Daichi" (mp3) from "Domo 10th Anniversary Collection"by Kitaro(Domo Records) More On This AlbumPromo+ Becca Loebe CD release party 9/15 a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP611: Free stuff Friday, weather scholarship, death and loans, Jeriko FAP611: Free stuff Friday, weather scholarship, death and loans, JerikoStudent Financial Aid News+ BusinessWeek profile is out!+ TIME Magazine: Teresa Huber co-signed a Sallie Mae loan with her daughter, Sheena, to finance an education at Spencerian College in Louisville, Ken. Last January, Sheena, 22, died of lung disease just one semester before completing her degree. After sending her daughter's death certificate to the loan company, Huber received a one-sentence letter in response, whic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP610: What to do if you lose your job, beer and fish scholarship, Anji Bee FAP610: What to do if you lose your job, beer and fish scholarship, Anji BeeStudent Financial Aid News+ BankNet360: Mortgage lender First Magnus Financial Corp. filed for bankruptcy Tuesday, the 14th mortgage operation since December to fall prey to the deepening credit crisis.+ Once the nation�s 16th largest mortgage company, Tucson, Ariz.-based First Magnus originated more than $17 billion in home loans from January to June.+ NASFAA: One out of five undergraduate private loan borrowers di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP609: Expert interview with investor Ira Krakow, Kesley DiTullio FAP609: Expert interview with investor Ira Krakow, Kesley DiTullioExpert InterviewIn another Expert Interview as part of our Expert Interview series, I talk today with Ira Krakow, a prominent investor and contributing author for Stockpickr.com and TheStreet.com. Ira details basic investment strategies, money-saving strategies, and explains how you can achieve 18% returns tax-free, legally. Ira also details ways to get started with investing, and covers in detail a lot of what's happening on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP608: Egg salad CDOs, Class of 2011 mindset, scholarship factory, Ingrid Michaelson FAP608: Egg salad CDOs, Class of 2011 mindset, scholarship factory, Ingrid MichaelsonStudent Financial Aid News+ Beware money market accounts, says Bloomberg: Money market funds were invented 37 years ago to offer investors better returns than bank savings accounts while providing a high degree of safety. Most of the $2.5 trillion sitting in these funds is invested in such assets as U.S. Treasury bills, certificates of deposit and short-term commercial debt.+ Unlike bank accounts, money mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP607: Mega Mail Bag, rates, CIA, low income students, Origen FAP607: Mega Mail Bag, rates, CIA, low income students, OrigenStudent Financial Aid News+ Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve, in an unscheduled meeting, cut the discount rate to 5.75 percent from 6.25 percent, noting market conditions have deteriorated since it last met Aug. 7.+ "Financial market conditions have deteriorated, and tighter credit conditions and increased uncertainty have the potential to restrain economic growth going forward," the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee sai ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP606: Free stuff Friday, Hispanic financial aid issues, college rankings, Matthew Ebel FAP606: Free stuff Friday, Hispanic financial aid issues, college rankings, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: As usual, U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, released today, offer a heavy dose of d�j� vu. Princeton topped this year's list of best colleges, just as it did last year, while Harvard remained in second and Yale again took third. And the same institutions as last year rounded out the top dozen spots. But in one possible sign that organized criticism ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP605: Podcasting awards, jaguar cages, how to write lots of personalized cover letters, Hitmachine FAP605: Podcasting awards, jaguar cages, how to write lots of personalized cover letters, HitmachineStudent Financial Aid News+ The Financial Aid Podcast has won the Best Business Podcast award at the Podcast Peer Awards+ Inside Higher Ed: Shareholders of Sallie Mae on Wednesday approved the sale of the massive student loan company to a group of private equity firms and banks. Sallie Mae's announcement said the sale would proceed at the $60 a share price that J.C. Flowers & Co. and the othe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP604: Interview with Financial Aid Consultant Reecy Aresty FAP604: Interview with Financial Aid Consultant Reecy ArestyAnother great, long interview with Reecy Aresty, a fee-based financial aid consultant whose book, How to Pay For College Without Going Broke, covers controversial tips about how to maximize financial aid. The tips discussed in this interview are, as far as I know, 100% legal, but definitely take advantage of loopholes in the current laws.Reecy has also made an offer to give a free 15 minute consultation to anyone listening that ema ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP603: Preferred Lender Lists still in effect, Facebook parents, mail bag, Catie McKinney FAP603: Preferred Lender Lists still in effect, Facebook parents, mail bag, Catie McKinneyStudent Financial Aid News+ New guide to our Stafford Loan e-Signature process+ Working on a guide to our application itself+ Kim Clark writes in: Anyway, if you're looking for good stuff for your podcase, I thought you might be interested in the story we've just posted. I called around to see if the months of headlines about preferred lender list scandals had caused colleges to put lower-cost lenders ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP602: Understanding the PLUS loan, study abroad, David Usher FAP602: Understanding the PLUS loan, study abroad, David UsherStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: Many colleges have arrangements with companies and nonprofit groups that financially reward colleges, but not students, when students enroll in certain study abroad programs � and many students are unaware of these ties when they pick their study abroad programs, The New York Times reported. The article noted similarities between these arrangements and relationships between colleges a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP601: Student Loan Radio 39: A Classical Evening FAP601: Student Loan Radio 39: A Classical EveningTonight's Student Loan Radio focuses on classical and instrumental music. Student Loan Radio is a music and entertainment podcast that's part of the Financial Aid Podcast.+ Blue Jar, Por Una Cabeza, Carlos Gardel ASCAP 460614602+ Michael Mucklow, Color of the Morning+ Blue Jar, Meditation+ Steven Kreiberg, Pachelbel Canon in D+ "Ashokan Farewell" (mp3) from "Cabin Fever"by The Spiritwood Music Northwoods Ensemble(Spiritwood Music) Buy at i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP600: Free stuff Friday, Credit crunch, fly fishing scholarship, mail bag, Matthew Ebel FAP600: Free stuff Friday, Credit crunch, fly fishing scholarship, mail bag, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Will credit crunch impact student loans?+ Subprime and Alt-A mortgage loans going bad left and right+ Affecting CDOs and ABS+ Federal student loan rates are set by Congress+ Private student loan rates are market driven, so if the market revises credit standards upwards or rates are pushed up by economic conditions, private student loans will be more expensive+ Student loans i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP599: Expert interview with Dr. Kristan Venegas, Ingrid Michaelson FAP599: Expert interview with Dr. Kristan Venegas, Ingrid MichaelsonDr. Venegas' work has been supported by the James Irvine Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the College Board, and the Congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial Aid. Her recent publications have been featured in American Academic, American Behavioral Scientist, and Journal of Student Financial Aid. We talk about financial aid, accessibility, and affordability of college in this fantastic interview.Promo:+ Privat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP598: Loans on postcards, darknets, inflation, nursing scholarships, Catie McKinney FAP598: Loans on postcards, darknets, inflation, nursing scholarships, Catie McKinneyStudent Financial Aid News+ Expert interview with Dr. Kristan Venegas will be published separately due to length - 57 minutes+ iLife 08! iWork 08! Upgrades to the Financial Aid Podcast coming SOON+ Chronicle: The inflation index that many colleges use to predict their costs increased by 3.4 percent in the 2007 fiscal year, less than last year's rise of 5 percent.+ The Higher Education Price Index is a gauge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP597: Making fun of junk mail, tuition, atheist scholarship, mail bag, Noelle Hannibal FAP597: Making fun of junk mail, tuition, atheist scholarship, mail bag, Noelle HannibalStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: In a letter to members of Congress Friday, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings laid out a long list of objections by the Bush administration to House and Senate budget reconciliation legislation that would cut billions of dollars in subsidies to lenders and put most of the savings toward increased student aid. In the statement, Spellings was especially cri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP596: 5 money tips that you never hear about before college, Sallie Mae payout, Matthew Ebel FAP596: 5 money tips that you never hear about before college, Sallie Mae payout, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: When the directors of Sallie Mae meet next week to consider a $25 billion offer to buy the student loan giant, they will be voting on a transaction that will benefit the company, and also themselves � significantly.+ A proxy filing by Sallie Mae with the Securities and Exchange Commission last month shows that the company�s directors will earn a total o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP595: Free Stuff Friday for your Dorm Room, Mail Bag, Rates, Matthew Ebel FAP595: Free Stuff Friday for your Dorm Room, Mail Bag, Rates, Matthew EbelStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has raised new doubts about a plan by Democrats in the House of Representatives to cut interest rates on student loans, saying there are better ways of saving students money.+ The plan to reduce interest rates, initially approved by the House in January as part of the "first 100 hours" of Democratic control, would save students an a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP594: Jobcast - Make Yourself Instantly Employable, Mortgages, Athletic Loans, Black Lab FAP594: Jobcast - Make Yourself Instantly Employable, Mortgages, Athletic Loans, Black LabStudent Financial Aid News+ BankNet360: The subprime mess continues to spread as even prime lenders begin to eye bankruptcy.+ One of the nation�s top 10 lenders, American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., has hired Milestone Advisors and Lazard Ltd. to help it prepare for options such as "the orderly liquidation of its assets."+ American Home Mortgage [ticker: AHM] made close to $35 billion in home loans ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP593: New private student loan strategy, colleges for sale, plastic scholarship, Beau Hall FAP593: New private student loan strategy, colleges for sale, plastic scholarship, Beau HallStudent Financial Aid News+ Chronicle: The nonprofit Touro College announced this morning that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund � in a transaction that signals investors� continuing confidence in distance education as a way to make money in higher education.+ The buyer is Summit Partners, a $9-billion private-equity firm based in Boston and Palo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP592: Expert interview with Matthew Cashdollar, Gardening Scholarship, newsletter, Natalie Gelman FAP592: Expert interview with Matthew Cashdollar, Gardening Scholarship, newsletter, Natalie GelmanStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: The National Association of College and University Business Officers plans to review its existing policies on the interaction between exhibitors and attendees at its annual meetings and to propose a set of "best practices" � and practices to be avoided � in the relationships between corporate vendors and colleges generally, the association's top of ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP590: Student Loan Television: CC Chapman presents Kevin Reeves at Block Island FAP590: Student Loan Television: CC Chapman Presents Kevin Reeves at Block IslandAccident Hash host CC Chapman makes a return to the Financial Aid Podcast with this music video of Kevin Reeves covering When Doves Cry.High Quality: MP4 fileiPod version: MP4 fileClick to play Blip TV version: Click To Play Cover Music+ Kevin Reeves, When Doves Cry, ASCAP 530293988Reminders+ Join the Financial Aid Podcast Loyalists+ Register for PodCamp Boston+ Buy Virtual Hot Wings, the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP589: College Access Marketing from NASFAA 2007 National Conference FAP589: College Access Marketing from NASFAA 2007 National ConferenceSomething different today. This is a video of the College Access Marketing session held at the NASFAA national conference in Washington, DC. Presented by Marcia Weston and Wendy Erisman.Used with permission.Blip TV Version (click to play):Click To PlayAdditional Info+ College Goal Sunday+ NASFAA+ College Access MarketingReminders+ Join the Financial Aid Podcast Loyalists+ Register for PodCamp Boston+ Buy Virtual Hot Wings, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP588: Things you can print, secrets of credit-based marketing, London Fox Orchestra FAP588: Things you can print, secrets of credit-based marketing, London Fox OrchestraStudent Financial Aid News+ Inside Higher Ed: The National Education Loan Network is ending relationships with more than 100 alumni associations in which the lender, known as Nelnet, has paid them fees and, in some cases, a share of revenue in exchange for the right to market consolidated education loans to graduates of their institutions. The arrangements had come under scrutiny as part of the student loan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP587: 10 Strategies for Maximizing Financial Aid, Higher Education Reauthorization, Vegetarian Scholarship, Yo Yais FAP587: 10 Strategies for Maximizing Financial Aid, Higher Education Reauthorization, Vegetarian Scholarship, Yo Yais Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: The U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation on Tuesday that will set federal higher-education policy for the next five years, increasing federal student aid while cracking down on conflicts of interest in the student-loan industry. + The sweeping bill would reauthorize, or renew, the Higher Education Act, the law governing most f ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP584: Student Loan Radio 38: Virtual Thirst Concert FAP584: Student Loan Radio 38: Virtual Thirst Concert A special presentation of Matthew Ebel's concert in Crayonville's Coca Cola Pavilion on May 25, 2007. + Every Color + Wasting My Time - BMI 7849297 + Walking in Memphis - ASCAP 530351521 + Drive Away - BMI 7849298 + Bright Lights - BMI 5917265 + All Along the Watch Tower - ASCAP 430623042 + Free Falling - ASCAP 360246799 + Sweet Home Alabama - ASCAP 490324824 + I Can Fly + Impatience - BMI 6047635 + Raindrops and Greasespots - BMI 6047 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP583: Free stuff Friday, Senate legislation, Amherst, La Terremoto de Alcorcon FAP583: Free stuff Friday, Senate legislation, Amherst, La Terremoto de Alcorcon Student Financial Aid News + Chronicle: Dealing a blow to lenders and a victory to student groups, the U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to reject an amendment that would have reduced the size of a subsidy cut to for-profit student-loan companies. + The amendment, which would have scaled back the subsidy cut from 0.5 of a percentage point to 0.35 of a percentage point, was defeated by a vote of 61 to 36. At press ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP582: Guide to responsible borrowing, budgets in DC, cancer scholarship, Black Lab FAP582: Guide to responsible borrowing, budgets in DC, cancer scholarship, Black Lab Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Senate began debate Wednesday on budget reconciliation legislation that would shave billions of dollars from the profits of student loan providers and use the funds to expand need-based aid for students. But lenders are banking on an amendment � likely to come up for a vote today � that would reduce the cuts to for-profit loan companies by between $2. ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP579: Private loans, groceries, mail bag, Black Lab FAP579: Private loans, groceries, mail bag, Black Lab Student Financial Aid News + IHE: As the scandals and debates over private lending have grown in recent months, conventional wisdom has held that private loans are a necessary evil. Sure, students and their families are taking on debt that is typically more expensive and more risky than federally backed loans. But as long as families feel that college costs are otherwise beyond their reach, private loans will continue to become more pop ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP576: CarCast Rolling in LATE From Logan Airport, Florence Attino, Matthew Ebel FAP576: CarCast Rolling in LATE From Logan Airport, Florence Attino, Matthew Ebel After significant delays at both Dulles International Airport and Logan Airport, I'm FINALLY home from NASFAA. Today's show is a CarCast recorded on the drive home, and we feature an interview with Florence Attino, Associate Director of Financial Aid for Brooklyn Law School, along with Janet Solomon, Assistant Director of Financial Aid. Discussed topics include graduate PLUS loans, graduate private student lo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP575: Live from NASFAA, state aid, NASA scholarship, Matthew Ebel FAP575: Live from NASFAA, state aid, NASA scholarship, Matthew Ebel Student Financial Aid News + The Financial Aid Podcast was granted media credentials yesterday by the Chronicle of Higher Education - woot! + Chronicle: More than 900 American colleges conduct nearly all of their federally guaranteed student-loan business through a single lender, a sign that they may not be providing a legally required level playing field for their student borrowers, the U.S. Education Department has warne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP574: Live from NASFAA, SC, LA, Prepackaging Loans, Karmyn Tyler FAP574: Live from NASFAA, SC, LA, Prepackaging Loans, Karmyn Tyler Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: College students are taking out private or "alternative" loans at a clip that alarms many policy makers. The main reason why is clear and widely acknowledged: College tuitions are rising at a rate that has outpaced the availability of federal grant and government-subsidized loan funds, and students are turning to the higher-cost private loans, in many cases, to fill the gap. + ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP573: Student Loan Radio 37 with Lovespirals FAP573: Student Loan Radio 37 with Lovespirals Another great guest-hosted Student Loan Radio this week, featuring co-hosts Anji Bee and Ryan Lum of the band Lovespirals. 1. "Aspenglow" (written by John Denver) from 'Excelsis Vol. 3" V/A/ comp (Projekt Records 2001) - ASCAP #310118904 2. "You Girl" (written by America) from 'Windblown Kiss' by Lovespirals (Projekt Records 2002) - ASCAP #550122740 3. "Cymbaline" (written by Pink Floyd) from 'None of Us is Pink' V/A comp (NPF 2005) - ASCAP # ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP572: Free Stuff Friday, Courage in Journalism scholarships, British financial aid, Rich Palmer FAP572: Free Stuff Friday, Courage in Journalism scholarships, British financial aid, Rich Palmer Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The British government announced a major expansion of student aid on Thursday, with the family income level for receiving full support for a university education increasing from $35,000 to $50,000. Grants were also increased for those in higher income levels. In addition, student borrowers will be able to have up to five years of �repayment holida ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP571: Redlining, Facebook forum feedback, scholarships, Girls Stuff FAP571: Redlining, Facebook forum feedback, scholarships, Girls Stuff Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Like most of the revelations and allegations that have poured out of Andrew M. Cuomo�s office in the New York attorney general�s investigation into the student loan industry, his latest is provocative and highly charged. Two weeks ago, in a powerfully worded letter to Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), Cuomo accused some providers of private s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP570: Student Loan Radio Independence Day Special Feature: Rayko KRB FAP570: Student Loan Radio Independence Day Special Feature: Rayko KRB A special Student Loan Radio today featuring the music of and an interview with Rayko Pipes, lead singer of the band Rayko KRB. * This episode is intended for mature audiences due to profanity in the music and mature themes. It is not recommended for children under the age of 17. * Buy the album at RaykoKRB.com In this episode: + Charp + Rockstar Poor + Simple Long Song + Up Chuk Skat + Better Daze + Take it Easy + F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP569: Interview with SimpleTuition CEO Kevin Walker, ACLU scholarship, Geoff Smith FAP569: Interview with SimpleTuition CEO Kevin Walker, ACLU scholarship, Geoff Smith Student Financial Aid News + BankNet360: Federal bank, thrift, and credit union regulators issued stricter guidelines Friday to regulate the subprime mortgage lending market. + The new policy will have two major affects on lenders catering to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit � it would require lenders to collect much more information to prove that borrowers have the capacity to pay. It would also re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP567: Student Loan Radio 36 CoverCast with CC Chapman FAP567: Student Loan Radio 36 CoverCast with CC Chapman Today's a very, very special day on the Financial Aid Podcast, when we fully leverage our ASCAP and BMI licenses. CC Chapman steps in to host the very first CoverCast on the Financial Aid Podcast. More than an hour of great, great music on today's show - tell a friend, since this is one of the few places you can hear cover music on a podcast. 02:05 Chance - When Doves Cry - ASCAP (Title Code: 530293988) 06:30 The Cool Waters Band - ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP Best Eps: FAP252: Stuck in an elevator, college admissions, jobs, firefighter scholarship, interview with Joe from the Sales Roundup Podcast, Navi Redd A selection of best episodes from the Financial Aid Podcast archives. Original episode show notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP Best Eps: FAP219: Happy April Fools Day, Brother Love, Waltham, Charlie Crowe A selection of best episodes from the Financial Aid Podcast archives. Original episode show notes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP566: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 5 of 5 FAP566: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 5 of 5 Welcome to Episode 5 of the Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, a 5 episode miniseries designed to help you get started on the path of paying for college, as well as introduce you to the podcast and the Student Loan Network. My name is Christopher Penn, founder, host, and producer of the Financial Aid Podcast. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the podcast. Subscribing to the podcast is easy and free, especially i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP565: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 4 of 5 FAP565: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 4 of 5 Welcome to Episode 4 of the Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, a 5 episode miniseries designed to help you get started on the path of paying for college, as well as introduce you to the podcast and the Student Loan Network. My name is Christopher Penn, founder, host, and producer of the Financial Aid Podcast. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the podcast. Subscribing to the podcast is easy and free, especially i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP563: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 2 of 5 FAP563: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 2 of 5 Welcome to Episode 2 of the Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, a 5 episode miniseries designed to help you get started on the path of paying for college, as well as introduce you to the podcast and the Student Loan Network. My name is Christopher Penn, founder, host, and producer of the Financial Aid Podcast. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the podcast. Subscribing to the podcast is easy and free, especially i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP562: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 1 of 5 FAP562: Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, episode 1 of 5 Welcome to Episode 1 of the Financial Aid Podcast Starter Pack, a 5 episode miniseries designed to help you get started on the path of paying for college, as well as introduce you to the podcast and the Student Loan Network. My name is Christopher Penn, founder, host, and producer of the Financial Aid Podcast. Let's get started with some brief information about the podcast. If you're listening to this on the web site, www.Financia ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP559: The Water Show, Higher Education Reauthorization, Mail Bag, Uncle Seth FAP559: The Water Show, Higher Education Reauthorization, Mail Bag, Uncle Seth Student Financial Aid News + Welcome to the BlogTV viewers watching the live taping of the show! + Inside Higher Ed: The U.S. Senate education committee fleshed out its bipartisan package of legislation to renew the Higher Education Act Tuesday, calling for $17 billion in new funds for Pell Grant recipients and $18 billion in cuts to student loan providers over five years. The Senate panel also revised a Higher ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP558: Simple money saving tips, non traditional scholarships, redlining, Natalie Brown FAP558: Simple money saving tips, non traditional scholarships, redlining, Natalie Brown Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: A major study released Monday by the University of California suggests that high school grades may be good at predicting not only first-year college performance, as commonly believed, but performance throughout four undergraduate years. The same study suggests that the SAT adds little predictive value to admissions decisions and is hindered by a high link ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAPFAP557: Free Stuff Monday, Damning Lender Report from the Senate, Homeland Security Money, PAB, Uncle Seth FAP557: Free Stuff Monday, Damning Lender Report from the Senate, Homeland Security Money, PAB, Uncle Seth Student Financial Aid News + Back in the office and behind the mic - love the good mic :) + BankNet360: Subprime borrowers faced more delinquencies and foreclosures during the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. + Nearly 19% of all subprime loans were either delinquent by more than 30 days or in foreclosure during 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP555: Political changes in higher ed, PR scholarship, mail bag, Girls Stuff FAP555: Political changes in higher ed, PR scholarship, mail bag, Girls Stuff Student Financial Aid News + From Inside Higher Ed: Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives education committee unveiled wide-ranging legislation Tuesday that over five years would take as much as $20 billion in federal funds away from lenders and redistribute most of it to students and borrowers, in the form of increased Pell Grants and lower student loan interest rates. + The bill also includes Repub ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP554: Politics, mail bag, Playboy scholarship, Beatrice Ericsson FAP554: Politics, mail bag, Playboy scholarship, Beatrice Ericsson Student Financial Aid News + From CNN: Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, which the panel will vote on this week. About 6.8 million students take out need-based loans each year, and the act aims to help families afford a college education. + Lenders would face major subsidy cuts, however. In addition to Sallie Mae, big studen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP528: Mail bag, choosing a consolidation lender, Denver scholarships, Catie McKinney FAP528: Mail bag, choosing a consolidation lender, Denver scholarships, Catie McKinney Student Financial Aid News + From Inside Higher Ed: New York's Legislature passed the country's first state law restricting the relationships between student loan companies and college officials. The law, which was supported by legislative leaders and New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and awaits the signature of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, would put into law the elements of the code of conduct that Cuomo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP529: More on comparing student loans, House student loan legislation, credit union scholarship, Todd Martin FAP529: More on comparing student loans, House student loan legislation, credit union scholarship, Todd Martin Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: JPMorgan Chase & Co. [ticker: JPM] has agreed to stop paying 100 university alumni associations as part of arrangements that allowed the New York-based company to market student loan consolidation programs directly to graduates. + The announcement comes just days after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced he would expand hi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP530: The Student Loan Sunshine Act, Prime Rate, Poultry Scholarship, Matthew Ebel FAP530: The Student Loan Sunshine Act, Prime Rate, Poultry Scholarship, Matthew Ebel Student Financial Aid News + From Banknet360: The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to hold short-term interest rates steady at 5.25%. + After a day-long meeting, the Fed's Open Market Committee said first-quarter economic growth has slowed. However, it is likely to expand at a moderate pace over the upcoming quarters. + The Fed also said that inflation remains "somewhat elevated" and that the housing sect ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP531: Free Stuff Friday, Student loans around the world, full tuition scholarship, The Alice Project FAP531: Free Stuff Friday, Student loans around the world, full tuition scholarship, The Alice Project Student Financial Aid News + From CNN/Reuters: A college cost crunch is bearing down on governments worldwide -- not just in America -- and some innovative approaches to student loans are being taken overseas, although you wouldn't know it on Capitol Hill. As another round of debate gets going in Congress on how to help debt-burdened university students, aides said lawmakers were largely ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP532: Student loan consolidation 101, industrial loan companies, Coke scholarships, Geoff Smith FAP532: Student loan consolidation 101, industrial loan companies, Coke scholarships, Geoff Smith Student Financial Aid News + Three U.S. senators filed legislation Thursday to stop companies, such as The Home Depot Inc. [ticker: HD], from acquiring industrial loan company (ILC) charters. + U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Wayne Allard (R-Colo.), and Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) filed the bipartisan Industrial Bank Holding Company Act, in an effort to restore the separation of banking and com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP533: Jobcast on LinkedIn, obvious scholarships, loan scandal firing, Curious FAP533: Jobcast on LinkedIn, obvious scholarships, loan scandal firing, Curious Student Financial Aid News + From Inside Higher Ed: The University of Texas at Austin fired its financial aid director Monday after an investigation by the university system concluded that he had violated campus and system policies and rules as a result of his purchase and ownership of stock in a lender with which the university worked. The dismissal of Lawrence W. Burt makes him the first campus financial aid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP534: Sallie Mae emails, campaign 2008, Drexel, repayment, Matthew Ebel FAP534: Sallie Mae emails, campaign 2008, Drexel, repayment, Matthew Ebel Student Financial Aid News + In the last week or so, higher education appears to have arrived as a 2008 campaign issue. Democratic candidates are vying to be the boldest defender of student loan borrowers and one in particular � John Edwards � has issued proposals that are unusually detailed for this early in a campaign. And in a sign that Edwards's move was noticed, Barack Obama followed Tuesday with a plan of his o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP535: Legislative changes, paying for graduate school, URI, Rich Palmer FAP535: Legislative changes, paying for graduate school, URI, Rich Palmer Student Financial AId News + From Inside Higher Ed: Democratic Congressional leaders reached agreement late Tuesday on a 2008 budget resolution that greatly increases the likelihood that lawmakers pass legislation this year that will cut financial support for student loan providers and use the savings to increase financial aid for students. Predictably, the move brought praise from student groups and howls of protest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP536: Free stuff Friday, benefits, Iowa student loans, free ride in Arkansas, Folio FAP536: Free stuff Friday, benefits, Iowa student loans, free ride in Arkansas, Folio Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp. will no longer offer cost reimbursements to schools, the organization announced. + In a survey conducted by the West Des Moines, Iowa-based organization, schools said they do not plan to apply for the cost reimbursements in the future because some worried financial aid staff were influencing students to use its products. + Iow ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP537: Hypermiling to save gas mileage, tons of news, Toyota scholarships, Justin Gordon FAP537: Hypermiling to save gas mileage, tons of news, Toyota scholarships, Justin Gordon Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: The Justice Department is reviewing Education Secretary Margaret Spellings�s decision to let student lender Nelnet Inc. keep $278 million in payments it collected through a loophole. + Rather than take Nelnet [ticker: NNI] to court to recover the improper payments to the lender, Spellings allowed the Lincoln, Neb.-based company to keep the funds on the pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP538: How to spot opportunities, financial aid officers fired, PodCamp Europe, Matthew Ebel FAP538: How to spot opportunities, financial aid officers fired, PodCamp Europe, Matthew Ebel Student Financial AId News + From Inside Higher Ed: The financial aid directors at Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities have lost their jobs, the second and third casualties of the student loan controversy that has battered higher education. + In a terse statement e-mailed to reporters late Monday afternoon, Columbia announced that it had dismissed David Charlow, its executive director of finan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP539: EASFAA Field Correspondent Jennifer Roberts, student loan interest rate update, Geoff Smith FAP539: EASFAA Field Correspondent Jennifer Roberts, student loan interest rate update, Geoff Smith Student Financial Aid News + From Inside Higher Ed: As a bipartisan and bicameral group of members of Congress introduced yet another expensive plan Tuesday to expand existing tax credits for college tuition costs, it is becoming increasingly apparent that lawmakers intend, one way or another, to again turn to the tax code to give students and their families some relief from soaring tuition ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP540: Google your next job on LinkedIn, half tuition scholarship, Virtual Hot Wings, Matthew Ebel FAP540: Google your next job on LinkedIn, half tuition scholarship, Virtual Hot Wings, Matthew Ebel Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: Florida Atlantic University canceled a two-year-old agreement with University Financial Services, by which the school received $50 for every alumnus to consolidate student loans with UFS. + In exchange, the Clearwater, Fla.-based lender was permitted to use FAU�s name in conjunction with its web site and phone number. However, unlike many such ag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP542: Student Loan Radio, Memorial Day 2007 FAP542: Student Loan Radio, Memorial Day 2007 A music special for Memorial Day. Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (observed this year on 2007-05-28). It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it expanded to include those who died in any war or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP543: Facebook lending, Free Stuff Tuesday, bill of rights, Rayko KRB FAP543: Facebook lending, Free Stuff Tuesday, bill of rights, Rayko KRB Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360 and the "Why didn't I think of that sooner" column: The sixth-most-trafficked web site in the U.S. now has a personal lending element. + Facebook, the online social network, yesterday launched the person-to-person lending service managed by Lending Club. The service will allow users to borrow and lend money directly among each other. Borrowers can apply for loans of as much ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP544: New student loan rates set, Latinos and financial aid, military student loans, Sophia Ramos FAP544: New student loan rates set, Latinos and financial aid, military student loans, Sophia Ramos Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corp. will not charge military personnel interest on loans while they are deployed, the West Des Moines, Iowa-based nonprofit announced. Troops can receive the break for up to two years. Iowa Student Loan Liquidity has 347 employees, and holds $2.45 billion of loans made to 214,000 borrowers. + From Inside HIgher Ed: L ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP545: iTunesU is a glimpse at the future of higher education, Black Lab FAP545: iTunesU is a glimpse at the future of higher education, Black Lab I was going to do a regular episode today until I saw an article on the Chronicle of Higher Education about something amazing. + The big news, the amazing news - iTunesU. + Go there in iTunes now + I'm pretty much going to rave about this for days. + Academic implications - what is the value of a college degree if the academic components are rapidly approaching free? + Colleges as communities + Colleges as certifica ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP546: Free stuff Friday, mail bag, code of conduct, Seton Hall scholarship, Mamas and Papas FAP546: Free stuff Friday, mail bag, code of conduct, Seton Hall scholarship, Mamas and Papas Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: A former Johns Hopkins University financial aid director accepted twice as much money from student lenders as previously disclosed. Eight lenders gave Ellen Frishberg $130,000 during her 18-year tenure, which was spent, ironically enough, advising the federal government on rules for officials dealing with the student loan industry. Earlier this month, ... 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website FAP548: A billion dollars for graduate students, mail bag, securitization primer, Beatrice Ericsson FAP548: A billion dollars for graduate students, mail bag, securitization primer, Beatrice Ericsson Student Financial Aid News + From BankNet360: Boston-based First Marblehead Corp. [ticker FMD] announced today a planned $1.04 billion securitization of private student loans originated by several banks. The transaction is expected to close around June 14. About 80% of the loans are direct-to-consumer, with the other 20% being school-channel loans. + From the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in Ca ... 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