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Financial Aid Woes And The Burden Of College Tuition

It’s becoming increasingly difficult for parents and students to pay for college tuition.

If it wasn’t for Pell Grants, Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) and the Education Opportunity Fund (EOF), 24-year-old Vanessa Denis would have graduated from Montclair State University with tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

“My high school was a college prep school and they explained all of the options to us,” Denis said. “I probably would have gone to a

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Cochise

Aug 1, 2011 at 10:57 am

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College Students Using “Sugar Daddies” To Pay Off Debt

NEW YORK — Due to the recession and rising college fees, many female students are turning to older men with money or “sugar daddies” to help them pay their college loan debt.

The article talks about the website, Seekingarrangement.com, which is home to “college tuition sugar daddies.”

The pieces focuses on a young, New York college student who signed up on the website and ended up meeting a man from mostly affluent, Greenwich,

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Cochise

Jul 20, 2011 at 3:57 pm

National

Did Dad Dupe Media About 13-Year-Old Daughter’s College Admission?

NEW YORK — The story was compelling when it was first broken several weeks ago by the New York Daily News — a 13-year-old Black whiz-kid named Autum Ashante accepted to the University of Connecticut, only to have that acceptance rescinded, and her fraught father calling for justice.

But the story might be a work of fiction.

Original New York Daily News Story on Autum Ashante’s acceptance

The University of Connecticut spokesman cited

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Tony Lamont

Jun 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm

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NY Jets WR, Braylon Edwards, Sends 100 Students To College

CLEVELAND — In 2007, New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards told 100 high school students he would put them through any college of their choice if they completed 15 hours of community service and kept a 2.5 grade point average.

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The students complied and, true to his word, Edwards will fulfill his promise. The good deed is expected to cost

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Dec 8, 2010 at 11:30 am

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5 Ways To Get Back Into The Swing Of Things After Winter Break

For your average college student, the best part of the holiday season is a month long vacation from the books, annoying professors and late nights in the library.

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Nov 9, 2010 at 12:34 pm

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“The Wire” Comes To Harvard

Two years after its cancellation, “The Wire” has been given the respect given to authors like Dickens and Shakespeare, Hemingway or Langston Hughes. It has been given its own class at Harvard. Not only has it been given an undergraduate class at Harvard, but in this spring, “The Wire” will be taught at Harvard Law School by one of its most prestigious professors, Charles Ogletree.

Ogletree had a conference at Harvard yesterday

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Cochise

Aug 23, 2010 at 3:06 pm

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Prepping Your Kids For College

I don’t quote Ronald Reagan often, but the annual sight of parents taking new freshmen to college always reminds me of one of his sayings. Negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviet Union, Reagan said that his principle was, “Trust — but verify”: We wouldn’t sign a treaty with the Soviets if there weren’t a basic foundation of trust — but make sure they’re keeping their end of the agreement, and be prepared to act if they aren’t.

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