Reminder that the Rainbow Christmas benefit event supporting MSUM’s Rainbow Scholarship, Minnkota Health Project, and the FM Pride Collective will be held Thursday, December 17th. There will be an auction and entertainment to raise funds for all three of these organizations. The event is being held at the I-Beam nightclub (1 block north of Hornbachers in Moorhead). Click headline for event details.
A national survey says South Dakota is tops in the nation among college students graduating in debt, but 17th overall for the amount of that debt. In its survey “Student Debt and the Class of 2008,” the Berkley, Calif.-based Project on Student Debt, reports that national student debt rose an average of 6 percent a year between 2004 and 2008, from $18,600 in 2004 to $23,200 in 2008. Read Ross Dolan’s full INFORUM story at http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/261874/group/news/
Graduating Fall 2009? Need information on what happens to all the loans you took out? Attend any one of these Exit Loan Counseling sessions and get your questions answered. Click headline for dates and times.
Students graduating from high school after January 1, 2009 and are Minnesota residents have until September 23, 2009 to apply for the Minnesota Achieve Scholarship. Eligible students who enroll full time (15 credits) at a university in Minnesota during the academic year immediately following their high school graduation can receive a one-time scholarship for use in their first academic year ranging from $1,200 to approximately $4,000 depending on financial need. Click link to read more.
If you have work-study positions you need filled for the 2009-2010 academic year, please send the position descriptions to Sumi Lehman at lehman@mnstate.edu to be posted on the dragonjobs website. Students are looking at the website to find work-study jobs.