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Western Governors University is pleased to offer the WGU Excellence in Special Education Scholarships. These scholarships are designed to help aspiring special education teachers attend college online to earn their licensure or endorsement in special education and fill a vital role in their communities. Each scholarship is valued up to $2,500.

Multiple scholarships will be awarded […]

Becoming a special education teacher is now easier because of Western Governors University’s flexible, online degree programs in special education. The Bachelor of Arts in Special Education and the Master of Science in Special Education will prepare individuals to teach students with mild to moderate disabilities.
Western Governors University is pleased to offer the WGU Excellence […]

Western Governors University is helping place more highly qualified teachers into classrooms, especially in the high needs areas of math and science, by offering the WGU Scholarship for Urban Mathematics and Science Educators. These scholarships are designed to help working adults attend college online to become mathematics or science teachers in America’s urban schools.
These scholarships […]

Sallie Mae offers 5 tips to help newly minted alumni begin student loan repayment and build a healthy credit history and to help customers get off on the right path for student loan repayment:
1. Automatic debit: Set up monthly loan payments with
automatic debit as an easy way to make on-time payments. Your
monthly […]

USA Funds(R), the nation’s leading education loan guarantor, announces that it supported $17.2 billion in loans to help students and parents pay for college during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2008. The figure represents an increase of more than 10 percent in college financing supported by USA Funds compared with the previous fiscal […]

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Unless you have been living under a rock or in the remote regions of the Appalachians, you realize the United States is in a serious credit crisis.  This crisis is affecting all markets, including higher education.  If you are contemplating going back to school, you may be worried with the economy in its current state […]

The Bush administration said on Friday it would take further steps to support the student loan market for the 2009-2010 school year.
In a joint statement, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said they would soon announce steps to address challenges hampering student lenders and borrowers.
“Using our newly extended authorities, the administration […]

Sen. Charles Schumer is calling on the federal government to protect college students and their families from the credit crunch by expanding the economic bailout to include student loans.
“We have to build a wall around the student loan market to protect our kids from the credit crisis,” Schumer said at a news conference yesterday in […]

The credit crunch has banks tightening lending and making it tougher for some college students to get loans.
Getting private student loans is becoming more challenging. The Consumer Bankers Association says, because of the credit crunch, some banks are not offering any more private loans and most of the ones that are, are upping their […]