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Cordilleran bags nat’l award for volunteerism

DOING service without expecting anything in return -- that is the very essence and intrinsic meaning of volunteerism. The difficult situation of Cristina Segnaken-Aban’s family during her younger years pushed her to work hard, persevere and to source out for scholarship grants so she could finish a college degree.

How to pay for college? Know terms of financial aid packages, loans

The mad dash to cobble together college funding will soon be under way.

Obama Proposes to Link Aid for Colleges to Affordability of Institutions

Saying “we just can’t keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition,” President Barack Obama proposed to have the government, for the first time, link federal aid to a college’s ability to control tuition costs and maintain education quality.

Esther J. Cepeda: The fear of federal college loans

CHICAGO — If you're not intimately familiar with the terrifying phrase "February is FAFSA time," you don't have college-age kids. Or you're wealthy enough to be unencumbered by the gut-wrenching process of filling out the dreaded Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the gateway to federal and state student grants, work-study and loans for college.

College Goal Sunday this week

Rockdale County Public Schools' annual College Goal Sunday is this week.