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| Senators ready to restore lower college loan rates | A bipartisan group of senators is announcing a deal that lets students dodge higher interest rates when they go back to campus this fall. The group on Thursday told reporters they have reached a compromise that lowers the rates for all students who borrow from the federal government. The… |
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| Looking for a solution to the jump in student loan interest rates | Antonya Bruno, a senior at Howard University, has used the maximum amount of federal loans over the last three years to help pay her steadily climbing tuition. |
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| Editorial: Congress must reverse doubling of student-loan interest rates | CONGRESS squandered a year of potential progress on student-loan interest rates. The result of its inaction was a sharp rise in rates on Monday. |
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| Student loan interest rate doubles. Government could pay more, too. | Millions of college students woke up Monday to a new reality: The interest rate on their new subsidized Stafford loans – the most popular federal student loan program – doubled overnight. |
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| Obama urges Congress to follow his lead to extend student loan rates | With student loan rates set to double in a month, President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to extend the current rates, a demand which Republicans rejected as needlessly partisan. |
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| 5 things to watch heading into special session | Washington lawmakers have adjourned their 105-day legislative session, but only get a two-week reprieve before they return to Olympia for a special session to finish their work on the state budget. |
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| Sequestration Presents Uncertain Outlook for Students, Researchers, and Job-Seekers | As the midnight-Thursday deadline came and went, steep federal spending cuts were set in motion, leaving college students, administrators, and researchers bracing for the effects of impending reductions in financial-aid, research, and job-training programs. Adding to the anxiety is the fact that… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø pledges to offset potential financial aids cuts from sequester | Western Washington University students receiving federal financial aid will be able to continue getting the same amount of funding through the 2013-14 school year, even if their aid is affected by automatic federal spending cuts that could kick in Friday, March 1. The university has… |
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| Students before sequesters: Western | The automatic federal budget cuts set to take effect on Friday will not be allowed to block any student from attending Western Washington University in Bellingham, ²ÝÁñÉçÇø President Bruce Shepard announced Tuesday. Western will “draw upon institutional reserves to provide funding if “any… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø to offset possible cuts in federal financial aid to Western students |