The George Washington University set a new record Feb. 9 as the first college to break the $50,000 mark in total cost of attendance. The figure approved by the university's Board of Trustees for the Class of 2011 includes tuition of $39,210, a food allowance of $3,400 and housing prices of $8,020, for a total of $50,630.
For many, there will be no beach party this Spring Break. Instead, students from across the nation are gathering to rebuild New Orleans. Katrina Corps, a grass-roots effort, is hoping to bring 25,000 students to New Orleans from March 5th - April 6th, 2007, known as the Katrina Challenge.
In the next couple of weeks, college students across the country will begin studying for midterms. Thanks to technology, some of them will be able to go back and listen to their lectures again. Podcasting - or the technology that makes it easier to download audio files as they are released - has begun to take hold in the lecture halls of our nation's universities.
More than 400 students from over 39 states gathered in the Nation's capital February 2-5, 2007, for the Global Justice Conference on AIDS, Trade and Child Survival. This was the first joint conference of Global Justice's three student campaigns, the Student Campaign for Child Survival (SCCS), the Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), and the Student Trade Justice Campaign.
The student loan saga continued Monday when shares of the nation's largest provider of loans dropped the most in 14 years. According to Bloomberg, SLM Corp's stock fell 8.8 percent on the New York Stock exchange, "the biggest one-day percentage decline since February 1993.
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