San Jose State University has put together a helpful list of “text book”s to help parents understand their new role in life, the parent of a college student. The list contains a meaningful mixture of practical advice about financing college, how to have important frank conversations, along with strategies regarding issues common to both student and parent – each with a healthy sprinkling of humor. [read more]
CBS Detroit posts an article about Canadian colleges that have set up special tuition rates for US students that make it economically reasonable and in many cases advantageous to study in Canada. The University of Windsor is offering tuition fees of $5000/semester. [read more]
Estrela Consulting posts on the company blog a list of helpful apps that range in cost from $0-4.99 that are worth checking out. They help the students find out the essay requirements to more than 600 schools as well as supply a college packing list, and more. These apps are for high school juniors and seniors. [read-more]
Ariel Kaminer of The New York Times posts an article with links to several colleges that are tuition free, some being among the most selective schools in the nation. [read more]
Inside Higher Ed has published an informative articles illustrating the issues important to college students and their parents regarding the Higher Education Act of 2008, slated to expire December 31, 3013. [read more]
Fabulous site sponsored by The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Gates Foundation designed to help parents and students put the language of college information on an even playing field. The categories are net price vs sticker price, graduation rates, and graduation debt in an extremely user friendly manner. [read more]
Annie Murphy Paul of Time Ideas posts and article containing some good links to good study tools. Highlighting and summarizing are proven rather ineffective, yet popular. Flash cards and self testing are much better. [read more]
True Admissions Blog posts a timely article that helps high school seniors walk through the waitlist process. [read more]
Frank Bruni, writing for The New York Times Sunday Review, posts an editorial discussing the future of public higher education in the State of Texas. Based on the latest verbiage from Austin, Bruni questions: “Do we want our marquee state universities to behave more like job-training centers, judged by the number of students they speed toward degrees, the percentage of those students who quickly land good-paying jobs and the thrift with which all of this is accomplished?” [read more]
Edudemic.com posts a quick guide to understanding FAFSA specifically designed for students. [read more]