There is little serious questioning of the benefits that higher education reaps for American young adults: more income over a lifetime , a better quality of life, and hopefully greater civ....

Let’s take a trip down memory lane for a moment. Remember when you received your acceptance letter in the mail from your dream university or college along with your financial aid award letter? Remember how relieved you felt when you saw the amou....

Wait, what?! This is not the ethos engrained into the youth of American students. I can recall from a very tender age learning that if you work hard and smart, it will pay off. Fast forward twenty years. Many of us are in our late twenties/early t....

One thing you can’t say about the US education system is that it’s difficult for college hopefuls to pay for school. Obtaining loans is usually as easy as just signing your name on a dotted line, ensuring that just about anyone can go to college.....

By design, the higher education system is intended for any American interested to take advantage of the opportunity in some size, shape or form. The message is clear: we all must have some type of education after high school to flourish in our career....

We complicate philanthropy. The word itself is complicated. It's academic. We live in a world where old ideas are made more simple over time, yet our society has chosen to complicate one of the oldest and simplest human notions--giving.

A celestial event occurs every year around May - when millions of mortarboards return to the earth from their exhilarating ascent to the heavens.  The Higher Education gods respond by granting the owner of these mortarboards with a loan repayment gr....

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Earlier this month, President Obama introduced a set of intentional suggestions via a memorandum regarding our national....

It’s a great time to be in America if you’re involved in any kind of movement. Feminist, gay, and African-American activist groups look to be making progress. Their success is signaling to other communities - like those burdened by college debt -....

In more student loan debt news, we now know that debt has surpassed the entire GDP of a continent. Ok, it's Australia, but still. Think about that, collectively student loan borrowers owe more money than the value of an entire continent's goods and s....