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Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more.   |
Sports Central
December 28, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
NCAA Gives New Meaning to Gender-Bias Unless the NCAA realizes that Title IX's intent was to help women succeed, it will not fulfill its intended purpose. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Handle Overblown College Fears It's only natural that your clients dread the approach of this milestone, but as they prepare for it, you can help minimize their stress level. |
BusinessWeek
March 19, 2007
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Scholarships: Not Just For The Needy Why schools are giving more scholarship money to affluent kids. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Skip Rozin |
A Whole New Ball Game? The push to reform--and scale back--collegiate athletics is gaining yardage. |
Sports Illustrated
December 13, 2001
Seth Davis |
Off base The 5/8 rule, which limits schools to awarding five basketball scholarships in any given year and eight in a two-year period, is a good thing -- unless you're a coach... |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Back-to-School Blues College costs just keep rising. Recently released figures show a more than 6% increase over last year. |
Sports Central
September 19, 2011
Neil Bright |
Show Me the Money Even though student-athletes are already fairly compensated, even though paying them will harm other programs, and even though funds are already available for poor students, their "show me the money" mantra is blindly accepted as the righteous cure-all for what is wrong with college sports. |
BusinessWeek
March 25, 2010
Jason Zengerle |
March Payday Madness No one makes more money from the annual NCAA tournament than big-time college basketball coaches. Are they worth their astronomical paychecks? |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2010
Nick Kapur |
Should College Athletes Be Paid to Play? Take that idea back to crazytown. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College at a Discount Next year, a Minnesota-based university will cut its tuition by 33 percent for all its students. Others will likely follow. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2011
Liz O'Shaughnessy |
Negotiating through the Maze of College Costs One of the biggest mistakes that families with college-bound teenagers make is looking in the wrong places for college cash. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
An Untapped Market in College Financial Planning There is one field where you won't get jostled: The niche for good late-stage college planning. It is just about deserted. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Real Costs of College A net price calculator allows clients to look beyond sticker prices to focus on the only price that matters to a mom and dad: the price they'll pay for their child to attend college. |
Salon.com
April 4, 2001
Allen Barra |
General soreness Why don't the players Bob Knight kicked off the Texas Tech basketball team have any rights? And why doesn't the media care? |
Salon.com
December 15, 2000
Maura Kelly |
Stop the madness Admissions officers at top-rated colleges prescribe time out for burnout... |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
David Juliano |
Financial Aid Pie: Getting a Big Slice Although billions of dollars in financial aid and scholarships are available, applying and qualifying remains a daunting task. Financial advisors can assist clients through it. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2004
Robert Brokamp |
Get the Most Financial Aid Before you or your child head off to college, position your finances for maximum aid eligibility. |
AskMen.com
December 10, 2003
Steve Seepersaud |
Why Is The NCAA Downsizing? While money is a major reason colleges cut sports teams, it certainly isn't the only reason. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2004 |
Inspiration Software's 2005 Inspired Teacher Scholarships Applications are now being accepted for the award in which recipients may use the scholarship toward a variety of professional development activities. |
Registered Rep.
February 28, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Ten Facts About College Freshmen College news that tell us what college freshman think and that Antioch College offers free tuition. For applicants, the FAFSA will be easier to complete this year. |
Sports Illustrated
May 22, 2002
Frank Deford |
Another graduation speech Life lessons for those expecting a free ride -- big-time college athletes... |
Entrepreneur
April 2010
Rosalind Resnick |
Paying for the Old College Try Advice for small-business owners on how to finance your kids' college educations. |
Sports Central
June 25, 2012
Jean Neuberger |
A Tale of Two APR Casualties The NCAA tournament will go on as scheduled in March 2013. Connecticut will not be there. Neither will nine other schools that the NCAA announced failed to meet Academic Progress Ratings standards. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2009
Deborah Fox |
Coming Up Short The current economic environment is putting considerable pressure on families. But if parents and their financial advisors take a proactive approach to college planning, parents and students can avoid reliance on credit markets. |
Sports Illustrated
November 13, 2002
Alexander Wolff |
The High School Athlete They are stronger and more skilled, but year-round commitment to a single sport and far-flung travel for more and better competition are isolating our best young athletes from their communities, changing the all-around athletic experience that has been at the heart of American sports for generations. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Jessi Hempel |
College Tuition? Gumption Won't Cover It Why is it so much harder for the brightest low-income kids to afford college in the U.S.? |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Joseph McCafferty |
The Money Bowl The real competition in big-time college sports is over who can spend the most. Colleges generally justify spending on athletics by pointing out the intangible benefits that they bring to the universities. |
Sports Illustrated
January 31, 2002
Frank Deford |
Roots Black coaches still can't make headway in football... |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Financial Aid Fiascos Feeling financially unprepared for college is a big source of stress for many people. Don't get caught flat-footed when planning for college costs. |
Sports Illustrated
June 6, 2001
Frank Deford |
Athletics 101 A change in eligibility rules is long overdue if we want to encourage talented athletes to stay in school... |
Sports Central
March 26, 2005
Eric Poole |
A Mountainous Accomplishment Title IX might have provided the tools that enabled Pat Summitt to excel, but she used those tools to build what might be the greatest athletic program in college sports -- men's or women's. |
Registered Rep.
October 16, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Gallery: Five Ways to Squeeze More Money From Colleges There are many ways to win fat financial awards and college scholarships than simply being bright. |
Financial Advisor
January 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
College Crunch Advisors should start asking clients where their kids may want to attend college when the kids are high school freshmen or even in middle school, says Mazareas. There's a lot to talk about. |
Registered Rep.
October 3, 2011
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What College Costs Thanks to a new federally mandated cost calculator, parents can learn far in advance what a particular college will cost them, which should lead to better informed decisions. |
Sports Central
November 27, 2003
Eric Poole |
McNair: Carrying the Standard McNair, who almost won the Heisman Trophy while playing for Division I-AA Alcorn State, is puncturing the myth that big colleges have a monopoly on big-time pro football prospects. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2003
Alan Rubenstein |
Looking at NCAA Hoops Scandals In a sport with a history full of scandals, the problems at Baylor are the most serious and bizarre college basketball has seen yet. While many fans and so-called experts are declaring the Baylor mess as the apocalypse of collegiate hoops, history shows that's not quite true. |
Registered Rep.
March 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Risks of Independence When parents realize that they haven't saved nearly enough money for college, some of them start wondering how their college-bound teenagers could qualify as independent students. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2010
Selena Maranjian |
7 Ways to Cut the Cost of College Why pay hundreds or thousands when you could be saving that money instead? |
BusinessWeek
March 10, 2011 |
Craig Robinson The Oregon State coach on ditching a lucrative finance career, taking over a losing team, and being the President's brother-in-law |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Unlocking College Data What good are the loads of data about colleges, if families can't access it? Here are four websites that are opening the vault. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2006
Mary Dalrymple |
Lake Wobegon College Many financial aid administrators say parents have a false sense of security that their child's chosen college will help them pay the costs of their child's education. |
Reason
April 2001
Michael Lynch |
Title IX's Pyrrhic Victory How the quest for "gender equity" is killing men's athletic programs... |
Information Today
June 27, 2013 |
Credo's Literati School Adds Financial Aid Finder Credo introduced a college scholarship search feature to its Literati School, which provides tools in more than 600 K -- 12 schools for teaching information skills. |
Registered Rep.
November 17, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What Public Universities Cost at the State Level Public universities, where most students attend, charge significantly different prices. And the policies that dictate who receives financial aid and merit scholarships also vary dramatically. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Paying for College at the Last Minute If your child is very close to college age, and you've got very little saved, don't despair. Junior isn't doomed to a life of flipping burgers. There are several things you can do to improve your situation. |
AskMen.com
August 22, 2001
Mark Simmons |
NFL Coaches Go Back To School School's back, and students aren't the only ones going back to school; find out why so many NFL coaches are getting back to their roots in the NCAA... |
CIO
July 15, 2002
Sari Kalin |
Security Superheroes Think of this as ROTC for security geeks. The U.S. government has started to award millions of dollars in scholarships to computer science students specializing in information assurance -- ensuring data and systems are secure, private and reliable. |
CFO
March 1, 2009
Kate Plourd |
Performance Boost College athletic departments get new revenue and cost analysis tools, part of the NCAA's effort to improve their financial reporting. |
