Tag: financial aid
Federal student aid available early
For new and continuing college students, things are about to change with the financial aid process. The federal government has changed the time that the FASFA applications will be made available from January 1st to October 1st, meaning three extra months to complete the application. The main reason for the change is to give students…
Regents’ scholar Lipp rejects the Regents’ Scholarship
Concordia College will no longer offer its Regents’ Scholarship – that is, its full-tuition, merit based scholarship – to applying high school students. As a Regents’ Scholar, I suppose now I’m expected to launch a tirade about how inconceivable and horrific it is that Concordia is no longer offering the scholarship, how crucial the scholarship…
Fluctuating enrollment numbers explained
Incoming freshman class sizes have been surprisingly unpredictable in recent years. This inconsistency has provoked curiosity around campus, with the concern being that low tuition numbers will have negative repercussions on the college as a whole. Over the last few years, class numbers have fluctuated significantly. Concordia’s class of 2015 brought in high numbers, coming…
Tuition increase explained
Concordia students will see a tuition increase of almost $2,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year, prompting many to call attention to the cost of higher education in a post-recession world. Comprehensive fees for next year will be $39,974, an increase of $2,114 from the current year. Students are feeling the money crunch. Samantha Scaman, a…
Married, engaged students talk
He saw her at a produce stand. Loren Johnson was filling in for another worker, selling vegetables in a Kmart parking lot, when he met his future wife. Amy Brown was delivering farm-grown fare that day, and though they only spoke briefly, he knew. “The night after I met Amy, I went back to my…