On Tuesday, President Obama hosted a conference call with college journalists to discuss the impending increase in Stafford loan interest rates set to kick in this July and to encourage students and young Americans to contact Congress in support of extending the low interest rates currently in place.
It is reprehensible that Dean Vos felt the need to manipulate scores upward, but his reasons for doing so might be more complex than we first assume. I hope that this scandal will result in some reflection about the “priorities” that, in part, led to this entire affair.
On July 1, 2012, students across the nation will see the interest rates on their Subsidized Stafford Federal Student Loans double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. Unless Congress extends the lowered interest rates, average borrowers may have to pay $2,500 more in interest.
Tonight, four Claremont McKenna officials are scheduled to speak with students about the SAT scandal at the ASCMC Senate Meeting.
The past twelve hours have delivered some of the most astonishing news that many CMC students will ever receive. Many students are outraged at the administration for its emphasis on college rankings and this smudge on their school’s reputation.
Although the Pomona Student Union organized event was supposed to address issue of class-based affirmative action, the invited speakers either addressed race-based affirmative action or affirmative action as a whole.
That 1,000,000 more young adults, a vulnerable group in the health insurance market, have been able to access health insurance due to specific provisions in the Affordable Care Act is a remarkable achievement, and one that we ought to celebrate as a country.
More and more students are taking study-drugs in order to make the grade. Should we care and, if so, should we do anything about it?
So we’ve talked about trayless policy and environmental policy in general. Now that students are back and the cafeterias have changed not only tray policy but take-out policy, many students are confronted with a drastically different dining experience. Pomona College’s trayless policy was just featured in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. They discuss the changes [...]
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