Financial literacy and job-seeking abilities are needed by twenty-somethings before and after graduation.  How well are they doing?  What's available to boost their skills or give them an edge?  Rob LaBreche knows the ropes, and he may have recently unveiled a 'killer app' for modern job seekers. 

Features ... A rookie college ranking debuts.  Will it challenge U.S. News?  Must big fundraising efforts result in little payoff?  Can college be more affordable?  What's happened to online higher education?   Also ... Most popular articles and interviews. 

While overall consumer interest has showed a  year-to-year decline, one market segment clearly wants online education the most.  Wes Kauble shares TCAT survey results. 

CPAs, tax practitioners and various other counselors are advising American families about their college purchases.  Keith Landis and his firm are advising the advisors.  He shares some interesting observations.   

In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification.  Here are more choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.   

In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification.  Here are some choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.   

 

New + Notable by Tom Robinson

 

Here are five more talents to add to the list of things colleges should do to prepare their students.  Five that employers should be seeking in recent grads.

 

A new law and some new rules - both with 2014 implementation dates.  Don't let them distract you from the misnamed 'gainful employment' struggle that may well be a stalking horse for something else entirely.  By Jeff Wendt