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June 16, 2026

How CIT Bank’s 4.10% APY Stacks Up Against The Best Savings Accounts

CIT Bank’s 4.10% APY beats Marcus, Ally, and matches SoFi’s boosted rate — without the direct deposit requirement.

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June 15, 2026

New Graduate School Loan Limits Start July 1: What Students Need to Know

New graduate loan limits take effect on July 1, and here’s what graduate student borrowers need to know and how to plan.

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June 14, 2026

DOJ Finds UC Davis Medical School Discriminated By Race In Admissions

DOJ finds UC Davis School of Medicine discriminated by race in admissions, violating the 2023 SFFA ruling. Settlement talks or a lawsuit could follow.

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June 13, 2026

UC Humanities And Social Science Faculty Join STEM Push To Restore The SAT

UC humanities and social science faculty back their STEM colleagues, demanding both the SAT/ACT math and verbal sections return to UC admissions.

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June 13, 2026

7.8 Million Student Loan Borrowers Are About to Deal With a New Debt Collector: The U.S. Treasury

A new Congressional report details Treasury’s takeover of defaulted student loan servicing — and the failed 2015 pilot that tested the same idea.

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June 12, 2026

Colleges Are Requiring SAT and ACT Scores Again — Here’s the Full List for 2027

Top colleges are requiring SAT and ACT scores again for 2027. See which schools changed their policies and what students should do now.

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June 12, 2026

University of Denver Eliminates 5 Departments In Restructuring After $30 Million Shortfall

University of Denver will merge five schools into two and cut five departments after projecting a $30 million budget gap. Student degrees are unaffected.

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June 12, 2026

CIT Bank’s Platinum Savings Now Pays 4.10% APY For Six Months

CIT Bank’s Platinum Savings APY Boost lifts the rate to 4.10% for six months with promo code CITBoost — open to new and existing customers.

The Department of Education building is seen the morning after Donald Trump signed an executive order dismantling of the department, in Washington, on March 21, 2025. Whether Trump has the authority under the U.S. constitution to close a congressionally mandated agency remains an unanswered question. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)
June 12, 2026

This Week In College And Money News: June 12, 2026

Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent joins our podcast to explain the July 1 changes, plus Treasury takes over $179B in defaulted loans and FAFSA gets faster.

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June 11, 2026

House Moves to Make Graduate Nursing a Professional Degree, Doubling Loan Limits

House appropriators advanced a bill designating advanced nursing programs as professional degrees, raising federal loan caps for those students to $200,000.

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June 11, 2026

IRS: More Than Half of States Have Joined the New $1,700 Federal Scholarship Tax Credit

The IRS says 27 states have opted into the new Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, a $1,700 credit for school scholarship donations starting in 2027.

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