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Suggested Media: TED Talk on Trying Something New

   For most college students, you're within a month of beginning as a freshman or within a month of returning to college. In either case, you can probably use a mental refresher about setting new goals for the semester. Or, alternatively, perhaps you want to commit to a new study, work, social or athletic regimen. 
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Suggested Media: Will loan forgiveness offer long-term student debt solution? (PBS News Hour)

   GWEN IFILL: Americans are now carrying student loan debt of over $1 trillion, $125 billion of it added just in the first three months of this year...So what, if anything, could this approach do to help ease the growing problem of student loan debt?For that, we turn to Deanne Loonin, who leads the student borrower program at the National Consumer Law Center. And Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

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College Parents of America, Humor – College Student Of the Month Award

The sixth comic in the College Parents of America Humor series is now available on collegeparents.org.
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Tuition protection

Parents, worried that the check they wrote for $5,000 — or likely more — to cover this fall’s college tuition and room and board is akin to gambling, now have a safeguard against potential losses if things don’t work out.It is called tuition insurance, and it typically allows parents to recover some of their money if their child becomes sick or gets injured and has to withdraw from school. In some cases, policies kick in if, for example, there is a death in the family.