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The University of Iowa has recently extended financial support to students affected by the flooding thanks to thousands of individual donations made to the UI Foundation’s Flood Relief Fund. The Office of Student Financial Aid announced on Tuesday that it will make financial support available to students through short-term loans and grants.

Recent studies show that more first-generation students (students whose parents have received no education beyond high school) are pouring into the country's community colleges and universities than ever before. In many cases, first-generation students are the children of immigrants or immigrants themselves.

This week, after threatening to veto the motion, President Bush signed into law the newly updated G.I. Bill as part of a $162 billion war spending bill.

The College Cost Reduction and Access Act, passed in September of 2007, is taking effect this week on July 1st. The act provides for need-based student loan interest to be cut in half by 2011, and the first rate cut – from 6.8% to 6.0% -- has been made.

As the Iraq war rages on, access to higher education for Iraq’s undergraduate students has become nearly impossible.

Camp Take a Stand, an intensive investigative journalism workshop for students, was recently held at Wesleyan University.

Colleges and Universities across the east coast are working to encourage students to opt out of finance careers with big paychecks in favor of public service.

Since 2003, concerns have circulated about the close ties between the student loan industry and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), an organization that lobbies on behalf of college aid officials.

On June 16th the California State Assembly voted 67-6 to pass a bill to protect high school and college newspaper advisors from being fired, suspended, or in any way punished for protecting a student’s right to free speech.

As the U.S. dollar continues to weaken, study abroad programs are suffering as students find it increasingly expensive to live abroad, particularly in Europe.

The rising cost of gas is taking its toll on campuses, which are responding by increasing campus parking tickets, raising public transportation fees, and cutting back on programs ranging from shuttle schedules to flight schools.

The College Media Advisors recently waded into an ongoing controversy at Western Oregon University, condemning the WOU administration for their response to the discovery of a security breach by Western Oregon Journal, the University’s student newspaper.

Severe flooding in Iowa has caused the evacuation of thousands of residents and the closures of nearly everything in Iowa City, including the University of Iowa.

Computer scientists at the University of Washington recently published a study that revealed that the procedures used by entertainment companies to identify copyright infringement are less than accurate.

Six University of California commencement speakers have cancelled their appearances in support of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a union representing over 20,000 UC employees, in their ongoing labor dispute with the UC System.

This year’s incoming class at the University of Michigan, the class of 2012, is the first class whose entire admission cycle was conducted under the Affirmative Action ban passed by Michigan voters in 2006, and minority enrollment dropped slightly.

The Evergreen State College chapter of Students for a Democratic Society was suspended by the university administration this spring for holding an anti-war panel and concert.

As the number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans on campus grows, students across the country are starting campus organizations dedicated to student veterans.

University of Nevada System Chancellor Jim Rogers has become increasingly and unabashedly critical of Governor Jim Gibbons for his higher education budget cuts.

In June 2007 the Board of Trustees at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio voted to close the college this spring due to a budget crisis caused by low enrollment and a dwindling endowment that left the school overly dependent on tuition proceeds.