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CBO: Federal Government Projects to Profit from Student Lending

   image by flickr user jparise (cc license) Over the past year, there have been multiple accounts of how much the federal government profits from its student lending. This week, the Congressional Budget Office announced that those profits project to continue through 2024. 
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The White House Case for Why College Costs Need Curbing

   Earlier today, the White House released a fact sheet detailing the need to curb college costs and some proposed methods that may achieve such a goal.  

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2019 College Humor – College Tuition Does Not Include Maid Service

The ninth comic in the College Parents of America Humor series is now available on Collegeparents.org. This comic, created by collaboration between College Parents of America and Hector Curriel, deals with a combination of college pricing sticker shock and the state of cleanliness of many dorm rooms across the country.  
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Know your College Student – the Class of 2020 Mind-set List

SInce 1998, Beloit College has published its annual "mind-set" list during the back to school season. It is filled with many helpful reminders of the differences between generations - between college students and college parents, between college students and their faculty and even between college age adults and their employers.
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Social Networks & Friends May Affect Student Success

As college parents, we have witnessed the influence of our children's friends. From elementary school to high school many of us have taken steps to encourage certain friendships or even to discourage other friendships.
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Utilizing Health Centers On Campus – A Vital Component Of Student Health

Student health centers are critical to student success. This is true on many levels. In recent years, we’ve seen data points like these: