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• Columbia endowment off 16.1 percent, beats Ivy rivals (Reuters)
• UC proposes raising student fees by 32 percent (AP)
• In US, some students buy -- not try -- to excel at school (AFP)
• Yale offers 10K reward in student's disappearance (AP)
• Kiss Those Student Loans Goodbye (BusinessWeek)
• Harvard's endowment drops sharply amid recession (AP)
• Boost seen for Dems' student loan plan, House vote near (Reuters)

Columbia endowment off 16.1 percent, beats Ivy rivals (Reuters) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:24 PM PDT Reuters - Columbia University said on Friday that its endowment lost 16.1 percent in its last fiscal year, far less than its Ivy League rivals Harvard and Yale.

UC proposes raising student fees by 32 percent (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:33 AM PDT AP - The University of California has proposed raising tuition by more than 30 percent next year as part of its plan to address rising costs and deep cuts in state funding.

In US, some students buy -- not try -- to excel at school (AFP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:01 AM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama may have hammered home a message of noses-to-the-grindstone as the secret to success at school in his speech to US students this week, but some American youngsters prefer buying their homework to doing it.

Yale offers 10K reward in student's disappearance (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:52 PM PDT AP - Investigators searching for a Yale graduate student who disappeared days before her wedding reviewed security-camera footage and checked the blueprints of the building where she was last seen as the university offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts.

Kiss Those Student Loans Goodbye (BusinessWeek) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Shawn Agyeman was down on his luck last fall, having just lost his job as a research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, his alma mater. With looming monthly student loan payments of around $200 a month hanging over his head, the recent college graduate was starting to worry about how he'd meet his debt obligations, fearful that creditors would harass his parents -- who co-signed his loans -- if he couldn't come up with the money. Then he got a phone call from the director of a new grass-roots nonprofit that he says changed his life. ...

Harvard's endowment drops sharply amid recession (AP) Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:37 AM PDT AP - The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was battered by the worldwide recession, the university's management company said.

Boost seen for Dems' student loan plan, House vote near (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2009 06:41 PM PDT Reuters - Democratic lawmakers seeking a thorough overhaul of the $92 billion U.S. student loan market were expected to score a win in the days ahead from a favorable finding by the Congressional Budget Office.

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