How To Pick A College During Coronavirus
Spring is a big time of year for the college-bound — getting acceptance letters, figuring out financial aid, making a decision. Even in a typical year, it can be overwhelming. But as we all know, this is not a typical year. Shereen Marisol Maraji, c0-host of NPR’s Code Switch podcast asks Elissa Nadworny, an NPR […]
College Coronavirus Relief Funding Falls Short of Needs
Congress’s emergency coronavirus bill would provide colleges and universities with about $14 billion to weather shutdowns and move to distance learning. That is unlikely to be enough. The $2 trillion stimulus package passed by the Senate on Wednesday will send about $14 billion to colleges and universities that are hemorrhaging money as they close their […]
How to do College Planning in a Pandemic
High school students and families typically return from spring break looking forward to a host of exciting year-end events, including awards banquets, prom and, of course, graduation. This year, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on these exciting milestone activities. And, of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Students are on extended breaks from school, […]
Will Colleges Refund Students for Tuition, Room & Board and Other Expenses?
Across the country, college students are finishing their semester online from home. Many unable to live in the dorms and eat the cafeteria meals they’ve already paid for. “Now the university has forced them off-campus, and students have said, ‘Well, I paid for four and half, five months of housing. I only lived there for […]
COVID-19 Stimulus Directs Aid to Schools, Suspends Student Loan Payments
The deal would give $30.9 billion to the Education Department and a penalty-free pause in payments to student loan borrowers The massive stimulus deal reached by senators would provide billions of dollars more in emergency aid for schools compared to the Republican version circulated earlier this week, while seeking to give student loan borrowers a pause […]
How Will College Students Figure in to The Coronavirus Stimulus Plan?
A week after higher education saw its near-term financial outlook shot into a state of disarray, some relief could be coming soon from Washington. As members of Congress negotiate a plan to boost the economy during the recession expected to result from the Covid-19 pandemic, some lawmakers have proposed including relief for student-loan borrowers as […]
When Colleges Shut Down, Some Students Have Nowhere To Go
Lee Myers is a senior at Berea College in Kentucky. Up until March 14, he was living in a dorm called Deep Green, majoring in philosophy with a minor in economics, and looking forward to a future career in social justice. Now that the campus has closed and graduation is canceled due to coronavirus, he […]
How the Coronavirus Can Harm Your College Financial Aid
In normal times, colleges and universities in the U.S. couldn’t simply flip a switch to become virtual learning institutions and continue to provide students federal financial aid without proper approval. But these are not normal times, as more than 100 institutions – and counting – have canceled in-person classes in an attempt to slow the […]
Trump Gives People With Student Loans a Break Amid Coronavirus
Trump said people with student debt won’t have to pay interest on their loans amid the coronavirus. That means borrowers could put their payments on pause without any penalty. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would waive the interest on all federal student loans amid the coronavirus outbreak, meaning borrowers could pause their payments […]
Coronavirus Colleges & School Closures: List of Southern California Schools Affected
High schools, colleges and universities in Southern California are joining a growing wave of schools that are canceling in-person classes and shifting to online instruction to help contain the coronavirus outbreak. UCLA, University of Southern California, Loyola Marymount, UC Irvine and UC Riverside are among the SoCal schools that are partly or fully moving to […]