student loans

Students need health care, too

Repealing Obama's bill would burden college students.

Student loan program revamped

On Tuesday—the same day President Barack Obama signed the final health care legislation into law—Columbia announced that it will transition to the Federal Direct Loan Program for the 2010-2011 school year.

The good, the bad, and the Student Loan Bill

Though conservatives have uniformly opposed the legislation as wasteful, ineffective, and overreaching, the student financing part presents a complicated situation for the conservative mind.

Economic Slump Heightens Struggle to Pay Loans, Find Jobs

As the markets dither seven miles to the south, Columbia students are just beginning to feel the impact of America’s economic crisis.

How Will Students Pay for College Next Year?

I am a concerned Columbia College alumnus.