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Is that student debt really worth the burden?

Apr 12, 2019
More than 40% of millennials and Gen Xers say they don't think so.
Nearly 300,000 students attended HBCUs in 2015.
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Inside today's fraternities

Jan 1, 2019
A lot of us have an image of what they look like. Is it justified?
Greek organizations "occupy this unique position where they are both dependent on universities and separate from them, and they are big businesses," author Alexandra Robbins says. Above, the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house at San Diego State University in California in 2012.
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Study finds many parents are not using 529 college saving plans

Oct 30, 2018
The 529 lets people invest college savings without taxing the gains on that investment.