College Aid Services

JUNE 6, 2025

FSA has published Volume 8 of the 2025-2026 Federal Student Aid Handbook. 2025-2026 Federal Student Aid Handbook Volume 8: The Direct Loan Program – This volume discusses the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program (Direct Loan Program) and describes how the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) makes loans to help students and parents… More » 2025-26 Federal Student Aid Handbook – Volume 8 Now Available The post 2025-26 Federal Student Aid Handbook – Volume 8 Now Availab

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Active Minds

JUNE 6, 2025

Active Minds mobilizes young adults to lead a transformative movement in mental health, forever changing how it is valued and prioritized in society.

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Mental health 130

Cal Newport

JUNE 6, 2025

Last month, Anthropic released a safety report about one of its most powerful chatbots, Claude Opus 4. The report attracted attention for its description of an unsettling experiment. Researchers asked Claude to act as a virtual assistant for a fictional company. To help guide its decisions, they presented it with a collection of emails that they contrived to include messages from an engineer about his plans to replace Claude with a new system.

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Timely MD

JUNE 6, 2025

TL;DR TimelyCare’s new academic confidence score helps measure how students perceive their ability to succeed in college. Based on the Sense of Social Fit Scale, the tool reveals that student confidence significantly improves after Success Coaching sessions. These insights support better student outcomes by connecting confidence to academic persistence, mental wellness, and long-term success.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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College Aid Services

JUNE 6, 2025

On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education released its annual update to the Federal Need Analysis Methodology for the 2026–27 award year. This methodology determines students’ eligibility for federal financial aid programs, including Pell Grants, Federal Work-Study, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG), Direct Loans, and TEACH Grants.

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