The Sembradores de Austin Valentine’s Ball, a formal gala supporting a scholarship program for underprivileged first-generation students at The University of Texas at Austin and three other central Texas universities, will be held Feb. 9 at the Omni Hotel South Park in Austin.
Ron Oliveira, anchor for KEYE-TV, Channel 42 in Austin, will be the master […]

A junior Cal State Long Beach student is one of 11 students selected from across the nation to receive a $5,000 scholarship from the 2007 United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Google Scholarship Program.
Tanisha Washington, a management information systems major originally from small-town Indiana, plans to use her award to help pay for school expenses […]

He has ridden 11,500 miles on his bike since 2002 to raise scholarship money for part-time students, and he’s still not satisfied.
Robert Erickson, the chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Foundation, began his sixth annual 2,300-mile bicycle tour on Aug. 20 to raise money and public support for part-time students who attend colleges […]

Two summers ago, as the House Education and Labor Committee debated legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, the panel’s Republican majority and Democratic minority warred over the best way to spend money gained from cutting subsidies to lenders. Arguing that the bill drafted by Republicans would do too little to make college affordable for […]

WASHINGTON - After recently going through the college loan process, Sen. Charles E. Schumer is trying to rid student loan applications of the fine print and allow applications to be easily compared.
Schumer, who has one daughter in college and one in graduate school, recently learned the confusion when deciphering between student loan applications and private […]

The credit cards public servants use to pay for goods, services and government travel are being used properly, even though control measures are not always followed, the auditor-general reported yesterday.
Sheila Fraser found no evidence of overspending or misuse of the so-called acquisition and travel cards used at three big-spending departments - National Defence, Fisheries and […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic head of the U.S. House of Representatives education committee said on Tuesday investigators probing the Bush administration’s management of federal student loan programs had found “serious oversight failures by senior officials.”
Amid a conflict of interest scandal that is sweeping through the $85 billion student loan industry, Rep. George Miller asked […]

PITTSBURGH — Duquesne University has announced that it will stop accepting commissions from private loan providers listed on its Web site.
Duquesne denied any wrongdoing and said the money received from several lenders was reinvested into need-based student aid. But the school decided to end the arrangement “to avoid the current confusion about the issue,” spokeswoman […]

A San Francisco lending firm is under pressure to disclose any financial relationships with California colleges and universities as part of a growing scandal involving student loan companies and alleged kickbacks to education officials.
State Attorney General Jerry Brown on Tuesday demanded records detailing any financial relationships between San Francisco-based Education Finance Partners and public or […]

Sara Martinez Tucker, the federal official in charge of overseeing the student-loan industry, had more than $10,000 invested in student lenders, according to financial disclosure forms filed last October and released to The Washington Post.
The U.S. Department of Education said Ms. Tucker, the No. 3 official at the agency, had not violated any ethics rules […]