Skip to Main Content
The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

The independent news website of The Kent Stater & KSTV

KentStater

Financial Aid offers insight on scholarships and where to find them

Maggie Wachtel November 13, 2015

Senior Associate Director of Student Financial Aid Anissa Strickland spoke to Kent State students Friday about how to apply for scholarships as well as where to find them.  Strickland said the financial...

Financial aid speaker provides insight, advice on scholarships

Maggie Wachtel October 15, 2015

Financial aid counselor Pamela LaFleur offered students financial advice and tips on preparing for their future Thursday in the Schwartz Center.The presentation titled “How to Build Your Financial Fitness”...

Free Application for Federal Student Aid 

Sen. Brown pushes to simplify FAFSA process

Sarah Matthews September 22, 2015

President Obama announced plans to simplify the Free Application For Federal Student Aid process on Monday, Sept. 14 after U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and 30 of his Senate colleagues urged the administration...

President Barack Obama speaks at Anschutz Sports Pavillion at the University of Kansas on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 in Lawrence, Kan. Obama was promoting his middle class economic agenda he outlined in his State of the State speech earlier this week. 

Free community college?

Kate Schwanke January 25, 2015

 President Barack Obama’s ambitious proposal to lower community college costs to zero could negatively affect Kent.Obama announced his tentative plan at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville,...

Jennifer Hutchinson is a sophomore political science major. Contact her at jhutch12@kent.edu.

Opinion: College could be harder to afford with 529s taking a hit

Jennifer Hutchison January 25, 2015

After President Barack Obama’s recent debut of his free community college proposal, it seems he could have more education cost reform coming our way. This latest idea, however, is not going over as smoothly....

Six alternate forms of college financial aid

Kate Forgach August 20, 2014

College tuition and fees have gone through the roof as government funding has dried up. This comes at a particularly bad time as college-saving accounts have toppled. At the same time, supplemental work...

Shannon McDonald (left) and Christina Napier, financial aid counselor at Kent State, assist student Alex Evans at Kent State’s College Goal Sunday in Franklin Hall, Sunday Feb. 9, 2014.

College Goal Sunday assists freshmen with FAFSA woes

Breyanna Tripp February 9, 2014

Ninety-nine percent of freshman received financial aid for the 2013-2014 school year at Kent State, according to college planning organization College Board.             Kent State held it’s...