For only twenty-five years, which really isn’t too much time when you think about it, American students have been waiting around to have the ability to drink (legally). It’s that magical time when you go out with your jackass friends and get wasted because it’s just the right thing to do. You only turn twenty-one [...]
There are few in this great country of ours who aren’t worried about paying for college, college loans, or being in extreme debt after they graduate. And if you’re one of these people, you’re probably watching Colbert Platinum and swimming in your gold pieces (which, by the way, doesn’t work I’ve heard). For those of [...]
It’s not easy getting out of college with a seemingly insurmountable amount of debt. Luckily, our pals at the Clarion Ledger gives you some good advice on how exactly to deal with all that.
When you get to college, it’s very easy to just spend, spend, spend. But, luckily, we have friends at the Daily Press who give us a nice run down of how to deal with one’s budget constraints. They warn about the new credit card laws that will require a parental co-sign and proof of income [...]
Many college students suffer under the worry of how to keep themselves from going into debt. People across the country are agreeing that the first place to start is to make students financially literate and there are a number of universities getting the attention they need.
Remember that law I wrote about a while ago that was supposed to stop or at least slow down credit companies in their constant efforts to get students into credit card debt? Well, Governor Rell of Connecticut signed the legislation yesterday into law. Now, credit card companies have to change the way they market to [...]
Credit cards have been a pretty hot topic on Campus Ology, and finally Congress is taking notice of the trouble that credit is causing college students. They are planning on passing a bill that limits credit card usage and provides more information to students starting college.
Read the article at The Modesto Bee online: http://www.modbee.com/inauguration/story/746919.html
We here at Campusology have always tried to watch your back. So in the past we’ve reported on the dangers of predatory credit card lenders in bed with universities, and of using said credit cards to fund your social life while away at school.
Now comes this article in the Chicago Tribune, suggesting college students aren’t [...]
At the Ohio State University there is a bit of a quarrel between school administrators and government officials, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Ohio legislators have decided that having credit card companies market to incoming students is just plain wrong. This recession thanks to a major credit crunch, which then turned into a credit crumble. Ohio’s [...]
Debt is the one four-letter word that never loses its taboo for most college students, or at least for those of us who didn’t go to community college and weren’t born with a 401k.
I’m not just talking about student loans–it’s my understanding that you don’t have to pay those back anyway–but the credit card debt [...]
