This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich., and is on page 5A of today’s print edition of The Monroe Evening News. Since this is pretty similar to a scholarship contest, I’ll treat it that way and repost on Monroe on a Budget:
To celebrate Earth Day, the Monroe County Earth Day Planning Committee [...]

This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich.
The Monroe Business and Professional Women announce that applications are available for two awards sponsored by the chapter:
The Leona Perelman Career Advancement Scholarship was established to support women who are returning to the workplace and need educational credits. Eligible women are at least 25 years old [...]

This post is for my readers in Milan, Mich., and is on page 7B of today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News:
The Milan Woman’s Club is offering a $500 scholarship to qualified students.
Eligible participants include those who will graduate in the Milan High School Class of 2010 or those who are enrolled in an accredited [...]

Some of the international travel programs that are available to high school or college students are short-term mission trips hosted by churches, religious schools, and faith-based organizations.
Christian PF has some personal finance expertise to share on that topic with Short Term Mission Trips – 17 Ways to Save Money.

If you have a student in the family who plans to go away – or even stay local – for college, you will find it very helpful to schedule a formal college tour or visit during the application process.
ABC has a College Tour Checklist to review before you make those campus visits.

One of the neat tricks about student loans is that payments on many of those programs are not due until six months after the student leaves school.
But you can start making student loan payments early, and there are financial advantages to doing that. I received a press release today from Sallie Mae about that topic, [...]

My daughter is a junior in college, and on schedule for graduating in four years.
The reality is: a lot of students who start college classes never finish their degrees.
USA Today is discussing that situation in an article: What if a college education just isn’t for everyone?
Economists continue to debate the nuances of trend data [...]

I had a customer at the social desk of The Monroe Evening News on Monday who was following up on a scholarship notice that he sent to the newspaper on behalf of his daughter.
The customer mentioned he quite pleased that his daughter got such a nice scholarship award from her college in comparison to many [...]

This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich.:
The Sawyer Homestead board of directors has announced a fundraising campaign to help raise scholarship money for students.
The Sawyer Homestead Youth Scholarship will be in the amount of $500 and will be for residents of Monroe County, Mich., who are attending Monroe County Community College. The [...]

This is the first in a series on senior prom expenses.
If your son or daughter is going to senior prom, the chances are pretty good these days they are already a veteran of formal school dances and dinner parties.
In the Monroe, Mich., area, most of the high schools host three major social events during the [...]

My daughter is a junior in college.
My husband and I usually send her a care package every semester exam week, courtesy of a school organization fundraiser that sends parents a letter with a range of care package prices and hints that you don’t want your daughter to be left out on goodie day!
Oh, yes, my [...]

This post is for my Michigan readers and is on page 7B of today’s edition of The Monroe Evening News:
The Michigan Education Savings Program and the Michigan Education Trust have launched the Dream Out Loud Challenge to encourage Michigan students in kindergarten through sixth grade to “dream out loud” for a chance to win $2,500 [...]

This post is for my readers in southeast Michigan:
The office of U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell has posted its second edition of the Southeast Michigan Displaced Workers Guidebook at the congressman’s web site, www.house.gov/dingell. The first edition was prepared in summer 2009.
This is a downloadable pdf booklet of 46 pages, and the list of resources [...]

I filed my daughter’s college financial aid applications on line Feb. 16.
A couple of days later, her college sent back a letter in the mail asking for signed photocopies of our tax returns; and another form to fill out and sign that is meant to verify / back up some of the financial data that [...]

Does your family include a college student or young adult who is living with parents?
The Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation has  tips on insurance issues to consider and ask your human resources and insurance agents about when a young adult stays, or comes back, home.