The hardest-hit campuses, Irvine and San Diego, will see 12% reductions. Berkeley's class will grow 1.7% and Merced's 17%. Numbers of community college transfers will be allowed to rise. LA Times, January 14, 2009 Saying they could not avoid a painful decision, University of California regents voted Wednesday to trim freshman enrollment for next fall by 2,300 students, or about 6%, as a response to reduced state funding during the worsening budget crisis. "None of us likes this," regents Chairman Richard Blum said of the student cut. But he placed responsibility for the action on state legislators, particularly Republicans opposed to tax increases. "For those who want to yell, go yell at Sacramento," Blum said. Under the plan, six of UC's nine undergraduate campuses will see…
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The Secret Of Enrollment Management – What Private Colleges Don’t Want You To Know About Their Financial Aid Policies!
Enter_Title_Here The Secret Of Enrollment Management – What Private Colleges Don’t Want You To Know About Their Financial Aid Policies! Have you ever heard of the term, “Enrollment Manager”? If not, then here’s a lesson in college economics that most parents will never hear about. College enrollment management became prominent in the 90’s when private colleges discovered that they were losing high quality students to public universities due to “sticker price shock”. Many private colleges suffered from lower admissions numbers and feared that they would go out of business if they did not find a better way to pinpoint the high schools and markets where their best prospects would most likely be found. As a result, they turned to enrollment managers. In a nutshell, here’s how…
Obama comforts crying student..
Obama meets with a college student and her financial aid counselor. www.collegeplannignexperts.com -Brian Safdari
Barack Obama’s Tax Plan
Enter_Title_Here Attention Friends and Family Below is information from a local CPA that is very knowledgeable in the accounting world. He is one of the best CPA’s I’ve ever dealt with. I’m sending this to everyone because I get requests from clients of a good CPA. So for those of you who would like someone to show you how to reduce your tax liability, Sam is the right guy for you. Please let Sam know you were referred by College Planning Experts because I have arranged a special discount for all my clients. Even if you have a current CPA, he will give you a second opinion. Have a nice week. Cordially, Brian Safdari Brian Safdari’s “College…
TEACH GRANT…
Enter_Title_Here Good Monday everyone! I hope you all had an amazing weekend! I got this from FAFSA’s official website and I think this will be a very useful GRANT for a lot of students. TEACH GRANT PROGRAM NOTE: For the TEACH Grant Fact Sheet, click here. Through the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007, Congress created the Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program that provides grants of up to $4,000 per year to students who intend to teach in a public or private elementary or secondary school that serves students from low-income families. If, after reading all of the information on this fact sheet, you are interested in learning more about the TEACH Grant Program, you…
“HOPE AND LIFETIME LEARNING CREDITS DOUBLED FOR SOME COUNTIES”
For 2008-09 some counties in the states of Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska have doubled the Hope Credit to the amount of $3,600 and the Lifetime Learning Credit to $4,000. www.CollegePlanningExperts.com -Brian
Federal Student Loan Update!
Enter_Title_Here Happy Monday! So, Bush is still making some moves on the economic problems before he leaves office at the end of the year. Here is a piece of the press release from the department of educations website: A Department of Education Press Release: The Administration intends to provide liquidity support to one or more conforming Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) conduits. These conduits will purchase FFELP loans, providing longer-term stability to the guaranteed student loan marketplace. The Department intends to make all fully disbursed, non-consolidation FFELP loans awarded between October 1, 2003 and July 1, 2009 eligible for this program. An eligible lender trustee creates a pool called a conduit, to which other lenders transfer ownership of their student loans. This conduit issues commercial…
More from President-Elect Barack Obama…
Enter_Title_Here Hey guys!!!! Happy Friday!!! Yesterday I posted an article from Inside Higher Education’s website outlining Obama’s views on education and college. He has some very interesting proposals to change some of the issues parents and students have when going to and paying for college. Watch this video that is posted on Obama’s website to get a better idea, directly from the President-Elect himself, of what he has in mind. Hope you all have a great and amazing weekend!! P.S. Don’t forget to sign up for my November FREE College Planning Workshop to get all the details of the up and coming changes in higher education and how they will affect YOU!! www.CollegePlanningExperts.com -Brian
President Elect Barack Obama on Higher Education…
Enter_Title_Here Happy Thursday everyone!!!! I am posting this article from Inside Higher Education’s website about Obama’s views on college. This should give us some idea of what could be up and coming with College costs, rules, and regulation changes. Pay close attention to what Obama says about the college textbook scams. If you are or have a student in college, I suggest, looking into used textbooks and online resources for textbooks (dont just go to the schools bookstore as your only resort!!). Reducing your textbook costs could save you thousands of dollars per year!!! Obama on Higher Ed Many higher education leaders had hoped to see college issues, or education generally, emerge as a major issue in the 2008 race. That never quite happened. And with…
If you start, make sure you finish
Going to college is one thing, and graduating college is another. You want to make sure you finish what you start when it comes to going to college. The best way to maximize the chances of a student graduating college is to get them on the right track from the beginning (i.e major choice and college choice). There are a lot of reasons why students do not finish college, but the biggest reason I have noticed is that students do not know what major they want to study and what college they REALLY want to go to, which a lot of the time leads to dropping out. Dropping out = losing thousands of dollars!! From Inside Higher Ed: The reality that only about 7 in…
