Posts Tagged ‘Martha Kanter’
For Students, These Are Borrowed Times
by Monnica Chan
May 10, 2012
It was quite a week for student financial aid news.
On the very day that a Republican filibuster halted a Democrat-backed student loan bill that would have extended the 3.4% interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans, a key administration official went to Boston to pitch the president's goals on higher ed funding and a national think tank delivered ...
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Kanter to Lead Meeting at Northeastern U on Obama Higher Ed Proposals
by John O. Harney
April 17, 2012
U.S. Department of Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter and other senior officials will discuss the Obama administration’s college affordability and higher education policy reform proposals at a "town meeting" scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, at 4 p.m. at Northeastern University's Cabral Student Center.
The meeting will offer an opportunity for students, families, advocates, financial aid counselors ...
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Needs of Asian-American Students Unveiled by National Report
by Shoshana Akins
June 16, 2010
Despite the myth that Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) students are universally high achieving, large groups of AAPI students have low high school graduation rates and are underrepresented in certain sectors the workforce, according to a new report to be released by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) ...
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