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Scene 1, Financial aid office of a college: Two phones ringing incessantly, an inbox flooded with emails from prospective students, a pile of financial aid applications lying unprocessed, and a clock announcing the end of office hours. Scene 2, Somewhere in the US: A student, exasperated with the rising cost of getting a college degree, calls the financial aid office continuously, sends his 4th email since morning, resolves to visit the office in person next day. What might appear like two scenes out of a modern-day tragicomedy belonging to The Theatre of Absurd, are a routine during the enrollment season in universities. Increasingly expensive degrees make financial aid help desk support imperative to get in and stay in- college. As if it isn't already difficult enough, steps in the complicated process of getting the required financial aid. That's when Financial Aid Help Desk Services come to your rescue.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly is an online, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources-information, technology, and services-published quarterly by EDUCAUSE. Materials related to planning for, developing, managing, evaluating, and using information resources on college and university campuses are welcomed. Submissions are evaluated for suitability by the EQ Editor and EQ Editorial Committee.

Why do we need colleges and how it that going?

I've spent considerable time thinking about how to alter the classes I teach to re-center them on a core of flexible learning. In all of my classes this semester, students will be completing a variety of learning projects that involve alternative ways to learn (e.g. blogging, making mindmaps, teaching a lesson, making a video presentation, or designing a non-digital game).

Students are downloading free copies of college text book to beat their high cost.