College students who need to go to summer school have few choices for grants and scholarships. And their options just shrank. The federal government is no longer giving out a need-based Pell Grant to help students pay for summer tuition. And the replacement is more loans. Senior Courtney Johnson has taken summer courses at Florida International […]
You know Democrats and their allies plan to use cuts to Medicare included in the U.S. House budget against presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and any other member of the GOP running for office this fall. At a press conference in Tampa Thursday, Democrats ran out another line of attack on what the House […]
So you’ve got a list of colleges offering scholarships, grants and all kinds of other perks and you’re trying to figure out the best deal? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has set up a new website to help college-bound students and their parents estimate just how much that degree will cost — and how much […]
Editor’s note: This post was written by WLRN reporter Tasnim Shamma. Earlier this month, Florida Christian College in Kissimmee filed a lawsuit against the state for not being allowed to enroll in the Florida Resident Access Grant (FRAG) program because of a disagreement with the Florida Department of Education about whether the college has a […]
A bill seen mostly as an effort to give immigrant families cheaper college tuition rates has died in the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee. The failed SB 106 would have allowed undocumented students and legal Florida residents with undocumented parents to pay in-state tuition rates, which are up to three times less expensive than the out-of-state […]
Elisa Huapilla is the first person in her family to attend college. She didn’t know what to expect at Florida State University. A lottery-funded Bright Futures scholarship pays part of the tuition. “The transition period can be very difficult,” she says. “I had nobody at home to call to tell me how college was supposed […]
Students with the activist group We Are Florida have staged a quiet sit-in at Rep. Carlos Lopez Cantera’s office in Tallahassee today, asking him to support HB 81, a bill that would grant in-state tuition for all youth living in Florida regardless of their immigration status or the immigration status of their parents. As StateImpact Florida […]
Last month, Gov. Rick Scott told the Florida Department of Education to rank all of Florida’s 3,078 schools from best to worst. That list was released last week — to criticism that it relied mostly on FCAT scores and did not take poverty into account. So, my colleague John O’Connor and I wondered how U.S. […]
The University of Florida is the second-best college value for in-state students in the country, according to Kiplinger Personal Finance magazine. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was the top-ranked school. New College in Sarasota was close behind, ranked 5th overall for in-state tuition value. Kiplinger‘s said they altered the rankings this year […]
OnlineUniversity.net has released an infographic on schools that graduate students with the most and least college loan debt. And three of the top five colleges with the highest student debt are in Florida. 3rd place: Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. with an average student debt of $43,206 4th place: Barry University in Miami […]
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