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Sometimes things turn out much crazier than thought. Natalie and I have been swamped with work, but we're BACK! This audio-only episode is highlighting the election party we had with our students at the American Language Institute.

Image via Wikipedia FAP824: Tea scholarship, Amazon textbooks, international financial aid Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It is a promising title for Princeton University Press. The topic couldn’t be more timely and the author is Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist who has managed with works such as Irrational Exuberance to attract big audiences for complicated topics. + The Princeton press is planning something new for the release: Two weeks before print publication the book will be available as a Kindle e-book. Kindle is Amazon.com’s portable reader that allows for downloading of complete books. Launched in November, and already attracting attention (and competition from other companies planning their versions), Kindle has been hailed as potentially opening up a new kind of reading experience. Of course, plenty of people have heard earlier such claims, but Kindle’s Amazon backing has given it a market that is attractive to many publishers — including university presses. + By the beginning of the fall, Princeton plans to have several hundred books available for sale through Kindle. Yale University Press and Oxford University Press already have a similar presence there. The University of California Press recently had about 40 of its volumes placed on Kindle and is ramping up. + Readers would save some on Kindle books, but at least now modestly, and only after recouping the costs of the reader (currently at $359). The Kindle version of an Oxford book called Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re Out in California sells for $21.96, compared to $24.40 for the paperback through Amazon. The latter also takes two to four weeks to ship and requires shipping fees. A Yale book, Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft, is available for $25.20 via Kindle and $28 plus shipping in hardcover. + NASFAA: Need a student loan? Then your local credit union wants you, the Central Penn Business Journal reports. The current money crunch and rising college costs aren t stopping area credit unions from promoting student loans. One reason is to attract new members and keep the ones they have. Belco and other area credit unions have picked up borrowers since the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) suspended its major loan programs in February. Belco wants to spread the word to college admission counselors that loans are available. Scholarship Update + TeaUSA Calm-A-Sutra Tea Scholarship + $20,000 scholarship + Create a 2 minute video about the health benefits of drinking tea + Deadline August 6, 2008 + Submit via YouTube + US Citizen or eligible non-citizen + Details at our free college scholarship search site Mail Bag + Mercy writes in: I need help finding a private student loan Christopher. I have been accepted to a school in Sweden (University of Gothenburg) for graduate school. Unfortunately, the university is not one of the eligible schools listed on the FASA web site. I have also tried getting private loans, but they want the school to be affiliated with a university in the US. Are there any private loans that do not have this particular requirement? How can I find a loan in the US that would help with my college education just for being a student anywhere in the world without too many restrictions? + You ll want to check out InternationalStudentLoan.com + International student loans are typically private student loans + James writes in: Hi Chris. Love your podcasts! I m trying to narrow down my list of lenders. I m interested in Student Loan Network s private student loan product. Which credit agency do they pull from (Exp, Eq, TU)? I m in MA. I m looking for TU pullers. Which lending companies pull TU? + I believe we use Experian; I don t think there s a list anywhere that I know of for which lenders use which bureaus. Some use all three. + Sarah writes in: I am 55 yrs in need of financial aid towards my small school for the ophans in uganda wht can i do.? i need your assistnce and information about that. + Check out Guidestar Did you enjoy today s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 Reminders + + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + Open an FDIC-insured savings account today! + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Student credit card information at StudentPlatinum.com + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Financial Aid discussion forums + Get FAFSA news at the FAFSA blog + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. I want to hear from you! Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis

FAP816: International Student Financial Aid Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Corn hits record prices, tomatoes, all food in general, average gas prices above $4 + Consider strongly your college s meal plans as a way to hedge against rising food costs + Inside Higher Ed: Sallie Mae, (ticker: SLM) falsely rumored just weeks ago to be on the verge of leaving federal loan programs, issued a statement Tuesday saying that it would be able to provide federal loans to all eligible students at every eligible college and university. The announcement comes at a time that the moves by some lenders away from the loan program have prompted fears of a loan shortfall. + The Student Loan Network as well + Chronicle: In large swaths of rural America, where a journey of 50 to 100 miles to reach a destination is the norm, some community-college officials say students are being forced to make tough decisions about what they can afford, given the added expense of fuel. Some are dropping out. Others are turning to online classes for relief from the pump. + Food and shelter—that s what we re hearing from the students who are withdrawing, said Paul Kraft, director of student services at the University of New Mexico at Gallup, a two-year institution in the high desert of western New Mexico, about 20 miles from the Arizona border. Many of the campus s students drive 30 to 60 miles each way to attend classes. + What about distance learning? + Check out our school guide at How To Get In + Shop around for distance learning programs + See what schools your institution will allow transfer of credit from Scholarship Update + The Alexia Foundation offers helps to provide the financial ability for students to improve their knowledge and skills of photojournalism and to increase their own knowledge and understanding of other cultures by providing scholarships to study photojournalism at Syracuse University in London, England. + The Foundation also provides cash grants to enable student photographers to have the financial ability to produce a picture story that furthers the Foundation s goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding. + Full-time undergraduate students must take the two courses for photo majors, plus two or three other liberal arts classes to be considered full-time students. + First Place Award: A full-tuition scholarship (about $15,300) to study photojournalism in London in the fall semester through Syracuse University Abroad; a grant of $1,000 for completing the proposed picture story. An additional $500 will be awarded to the sponsoring academic department. + Second Place Award: A half-tuition scholarship (about $7,650) toward tuition, fees and living expenses to study photojournalism in London this Fall through Syracuse University Abroad; a grant of $500 for completing the proposed picture story. + Awards of Special Recognition: Three awards of special recognition receive $1,600 toward tuition, to study photojournalism in London this Fall through Syracuse University Abroad, and cash grants of $500 for completing the proposed picture stories. + Deadline February 2 of each year + $31,250 + Details at our free college scholarship search site Financial Aid 101 + Kathleen writes in: I work with advising centers affiliated to the Dept. of State (EducationUSA) in South Central Asia. It would be hugely appreciated if you could begin to include information geared to students from countries other that the US who need to find ways to fund their US education. Would that be possible? Your information is absolutely great!! + International student financial aid is an entirely different game + http://www.InternationalStudent.com + http://www.InternationalScholarships.com + http://www.InternationalStudentLoan.com + Bear in mind for the last resource, you ll need a cosigner who is a citizen of the country in which the loan company resides. If you re studying in the UK, a UK subject; in the US, a US citizen or permanent resident. Did you enjoy today s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don t have to remember to download it every day. + + + Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 Reminders + + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + Open an FDIC-insured savings account today! + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + Student credit card information at StudentPlatinum.com + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Edvisors Jobs + Grad student? Get graduate financial aid information at the GradLoans.com blog! + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. I want to hear from you! Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis

FAP715: International student financial aid, Yale, Blackburn Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: Yale University will capture the headlines on college costs today, but an announcement from a small college in Illinois may point to a strategy that could affect many more institutions — and especially those without überendowments. + Blackburn College announced that it will cut it tuition rates for next year by 15 percent, to $13,500. At the same time, however, Blackburn announced it was ending all but a few merit scholarships and completely ending the practice of negotiating with students and parents over aid packages. + We were spending way too much time on the used-car sales approach and not enough time on the programs, said Miriam Pride, president of the college. + It became clear to us that we were spending an awful lot of time arguing over dollars, and we had competing institutions coming in with here s my bid and then families come back and say so and so is giving us another hundred dollars — you give us a hundred dollars, said Pride. We just decided to end the haggling. + Not only does the haggling hurt higher education and its image, Pride said, but it takes attention away from what students need to be thinking about when considering a college. + Inside Higher Ed: Ever since Harvard University announced a major expansion of its aid programs, Yale University has been promising that it would soon release its own initiative. On Monday, the university announced its expansion, which is in many ways similar to Harvard s in that students from families with incomes under $60,000 will effectively pay nothing, while those eligible for aid will pay gradually increasing percentages of their income, up to 10 percent. While the Harvard aid would generally disappear at family income levels of $180,000, Yale went even higher — to $200,000. Yale also announced a modest tuition increase for next year — 2.2 percent — or about the projected inflation rate. While Harvard and Yale s moves have received widespread praise, the Project on Student Debt is trying to discourage other colleges from helping those with six-figure incomes until they do a better job of helping those with minimal incomes. The project also released an analysis of the recent round of no loan pledges made by colleges and universities. + Bloomberg: Citigroup Inc. (ticker: C) posted the biggest loss in the U.S. bank s 196-year history as surging defaults on home loans forced it to write down the value of subprime-mortgage investments by $18 billion. Scholarship Update + Medical Library Association Scholarship for Minority Students + A scholarship for up to $5,000 will be granted to a minority student who is entering an ALA-accredited library school or has yet to finish at least one half of the program s requirements in the year following the granting of the scholarship. African American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, or Pacific Islander American individuals who wish to study health sciences librarianship are eligible. + Details at our free college scholarship search site + Free scholarship search secrets eBook Mail Bag + Lu and a dozen or so other people want to know - what kind of financial aid is available to international students? For international student financial aid resources: + http://www.InternationalStudent.com + http://www.InternationalScholarships.com + http://www.IEFA.org + http://www.InternationalStudentLoan.com + Disclosure: we provide the loans for InternationalStudentLoan.com + Bear in mind for the last resource, you ll need a cosigner who is a citizen of the country in which the loan company resides. If you re studying in the UK, a UK subject; in the US, a US citizen or permanent resident. + The next live show will be Friday, January 25 at 2 PM. Did you enjoy today s show? If so, please consider subscribing for free to get it delivered to you. Subscribing for free means you don t have to remember to download it every day. + Click here to subscribe for free by email + Click here to subscribe for free in iTunes + Click here to add the Financial Aid Podcast to Google Reader or your Google Homepage Direct MP3 file download: Click here to download the MP3 Reminders + Financial Aid Podcast Show Notes at FinancialAidPodcast.com. + Discuss this episode at the Financial Aid Forum! + Free scholarship search secrets eBook at StudentScholarshipSearch.com/ebook + FAFSA form tutorials and free help at FAFSAonline.com + Stafford federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com + Student loan consolidation at StudentLoanConsolidator.com + Private student loans available at any time - visit AlternativeStudentLoan.com + The Financial Aid Podcast is a publication of the Student Loan Network. I want to hear from you! Email me at financialaidpodcast gmail com, visit http://www.FinancialAidPodcast.com, or call 206-350-1208. Technorati Tags: financial aid financialaidpodcast ShareThis