In the last year, USF students have found available funds for college dwindling and sometimes nonexistent. At the same time, incomes and job opportunities are decreasing at alarming rates.

News being free is unsustainable and it is only a matter of time before web surfers will have to pay for the articles they read. How much would you pay?

According to University President Fr. Steven Privett S.J., USF is sifting through a range of university assets and compiling a list of items that may be expendable in an economic emergency. Among them is the Universities collection of rare books.

If you’re looking for a job, you can’t NOT be in LinkedIn. It positively shocks me that every college and university is not making this clear to today’s graduating class. - Pure Visibility Blog author What you know is very important, but who you know can get you the job. Accordingly, I am a big fan of [...]

For college students, who would have hoped for the Democrat-controlled government to aim stimulus money at making college more affordable, there is disappointingly little in the enormous package to get excited about. Less than four percent of the $787 billion economic relief effort will be spent on college students, in the form of expanded Pell Grants, Federal Work Study and increased tax credits for education spending.

When it comes to equality in college financial aid, international students get the short end of the stick, even at USF, with its global social justice mission. International students are not eligible for federal financial aid or college scholarships and must document their ability to pay all four years of full-priced tuition before they are [...]

Economic grad student Hunter Patterson explains the financial impact of the economic crisis on student loans. Inflation is beneficial for students with fixed rate loans.

This semester, being the first time I’ve lived in a big city, has been especially hard for me to conserve money. There are, all of a sudden, ample shopping and eating options, which are all still very new to me. Due to this fact, I often times spend what little money I get [...]

The thing that I have done to conserve money during this semester was to not spend money. I know this sounds too simple or maybe not simple enough. My goal was to only buy things I felt I ABSOLUTELY needed. Also, if I didn’t spend a lot of money for a given [...]

There is no doubt that the state of the current economy is affecting us all in one way or another. Personally, I’m not worried about my finances so much as my parents’, who are currently financing my education here at USF. It is this concern which has prompted me to conserve money in almost any [...]