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• Colleges Fight to Retain Interest of STEM Majors
• How the Government Calculates the Cost of Student Loans
• Budget deal would aid Ore. colleges, universities
• Alabama's new tax credits limited to transfers

Colleges Fight to Retain Interest of STEM Majors Posted: 19 Jun 2013 09:41 AM PDT Experts estimate that less than 40 percent of students who enter college as STEM majors actually wind up earning a degree in science, technology, engineering or math.

How the Government Calculates the Cost of Student Loans Posted: 19 Jun 2013 08:02 AM PDT A couple of weeks ago, the Student Loan Ranger detailed some of the proposals Congress is pondering to provide short- and long-term fixes to the imminent doubling of interest rates on subsidized federal direct loans. Part of that debate is data released last month by the Congressional Budget Office that shows a fiscal year 2013 "profit" of $50.6 billion for the Department of Education.

Budget deal would aid Ore. colleges, universities Posted: 19 Jun 2013 07:55 AM PDT Oregon's public universities and community colleges will be among the first in line to get more money if a so-far-elusive budget compromise results in more revenue and lower employee pension costs. Students ...

Alabama's new tax credits limited to transfers Posted: 19 Jun 2013 07:40 AM PDT Alabama's Department of Revenue determined the state's new private school tax credits don't apply to students who are already in private schools, even if they live in zones where failing public schools ...

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