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Reported by John P. Kelly - GateHouse News Service
If you were depending on a loan from the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority to help pay for college this fall, you might want to find another lender fast.
The nonprofit lending authority, which […]

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Reported by Robin Erb - Detroit Free Press
Two more public universities increased tuition Friday — Western Michigan University by 9.2% and Lake Superior State University by 8.9% — marking some of the largest increases by percentage this year in the state.
Still, of the 13 universities that have set tuition, WMU and LSSU remain in the […]

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Reported by Amy Rolph in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
University of Washington President Mark Emmert wants to expand the university’s freshman enrollment by 1,700 students over the next decade, a plan he says will help temper the university’s increasingly competitive admissions process.
The UW turned away almost 8,000 of 20,000 freshman applicants to its Seattle campus this spring, […]

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FL Intn’l raised tuition a total of 15% for school year 2008-2009.  Mostly freshmen and sophomores will get hit with this double increase.  Students with Prepaid tuition plans will be exempt - whew!

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