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Students Challenge Anti-Protest Law

AP | Posted 05.26.2012

MONTREAL — Student groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over p...

Dad Spends $1.5M To Send Daughters To College

Posted 05.18.2012

You think your parents are spending a lot on your college education? It's nothing compared to one Houston dad who will shell out about $1.5 millio...

10 States With the Most Student Loan Debt Per Graduate

InvestingAnswers | Posted 05.14.2012

InvestingAnswers

Collectively, college graduates now owe more than $1 trillion in student loans. Here are the top 10 states that held the most student loan debt per graduate at the end of the 2010 school year.

Saki Knafo

Occupy, Obama Speak Out As National Student Loan Debt Hits $1 Trillion

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.25.2012

Among the couple hundred protesters who gathered in Union Square Wednesday then marched down Broadway, beating drums and holding signs, one wore a bla...

Why College Tuition Needs To Be Part Of Your Divorce Settlement

Honoree Corder | Posted 04.17.2012

Honoree Corder

Before you sign that divorce decree, make sure your attorney has ensured your child will receive the college education you, and they, have in mind.

What Would $1 Billion Buy In College?

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.11.2012

In the past week, Facebook bought Instagram for a cool $1 billion, and Microsoft agreed to pay AOL (The Huffington Post's parent company) $1 billion f...

University Of Illinois Hikes Tuition By Nearly Five Percent

Posted 01.20.2012

Less than a year after the University of Illinois approved a 6.9 percent increase in tuition for the current freshman class, the school has announced ...

College For Today's Newborns Could Cost As Much As $422,000: The Daily

FUTURE SHOCK | Ashley Kindergan | Posted 03.10.2012

New moms and dads with visions of Ivy League degrees dancing in their heads should be prepared to face a bill of $422,320 in today's dollars if Junio...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Occupy Wall Street: A Generation Of 20-Somethings Airs Its Grievances, Its Frustrations

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.07.2011

NEW YORK -- Since graduating a year and a half ago from the Rhode Island School of Design, Nate Barchus hasn't shaken a nagging feeling: that he's ai...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Occupy Student Debt Campaign Announces Nationwide Loan Refusal Pledge

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 11.21.2011

NEW YORK -- Early Monday afternoon, a group of faculty and student organizers unveiled the Occupy Student Debt campaign from the southeast corner of l...

Let's Storm The Ivory Towers!

Marcus Baram | Posted 01.09.2012

Marcus Baram

In other countries, such as England and France, students have taken to the streets by the thousands to protest much smaller tuition increases. Where is that spirit here in America?

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Occupy Colleges: Students To Teach-In and Walk Out In Third Act of Support for OWS

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 01.02.2012

NEW YORK -- College students at more than 70 campuses around the country will hold teach-ins late Wednesday and on Thursday as a way of building aware...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Private College Students Arrive At Zuccotti Park To Air Complaints

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.28.2011

NEW YORK -- Since graduating from Ithaca College in May, Nathan Grant has searched high and low for steady work. After spending the summer renting...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Public College Students Going Public With Frustrations At Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.27.2011

NEW YORK -- Wednesday evening, three college students descended on lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park with the hope of unfurling their sleeping bags and ...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

College Dropouts and Students Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.25.2011

NEW YORK -- This past May, Audrey Hollingsworth had finally reached her limit. The rising debt and chronic joblessness among her friends, combined...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

College Students Walk Out Of Classes To Support Occupy Wall Street Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 12.05.2011

Earlier today, students from at least 100 college campuses around the country walked out of class in a show of solidarity and support for the Occupy W...

Strain On College Financial Aid With More People In Poverty

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 11.15.2011

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By: Robyn Gee The recent Census Bureau d...

Why Aren't Public Universities More Transparent and Accountable?

Mike Newman | Posted 11.14.2011

Mike Newman

Public universities are supposed to be providing a public good to society and therefore should be forced to be transparent with their finances and accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, they are allowed to operate under the radar.

Culinary School Grads Claim They Were Ripped Off

AP | By TERENCE CHEA | Posted 11.06.2011

SAN FRANCISCO -- Food enthusiasts have been enrolling in culinary school in growing numbers, lured by dreams of working as gourmet chefs or opening th...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Sex For Tuition: Gay Male College Students Using ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loan Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 10.30.2011

NEW YORK -- Three years ago, during his junior year at New York University, Kirk met with a financial aid officer to plead a familiar case: his inabil...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

College Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' To Pay Off Loan Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 04.30.2012

NEW YORK -- On a Sunday morning in late May, Taylor left her Harlem apartment and boarded a train for Greenwich, Conn. She planned on spending the day...

WATCH: UC Berkeley Students React To Tuition Increases

Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.17.2011

On Thursday, UC Berkeley announced plans to increase tuition by 9.6 percent this fall to help make up for state budget cuts. The 9.6 percent increase ...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Losing The Battle: Military Veterans At Private Universities Fear Being Robbed Of Promised G.I. Bill Tuition Dollars

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.19.2011

NEW YORK -- Cameron Baker, a 27-year-old Air Force veteran, knew it was finally time to make his exit from military life. After two deployments to Ira...

Tuition On The Rise At U Of I, Other Area Schools

Posted 05.25.2011

If a vote of the University of Illinois trustees goes as expected on Wednesday, tuition rates will go up nearly seven percent at that system's schools...

WATCH: 'Orgy Of The Rich' Group Protests Sotheby's Auction

Posted 05.25.2011

Just as Andy Warhol's Nine Multicolored Marilyns was unveiled at Sotheby's in London Wednesday evening, a group of protesters crashed the auction. The...