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3 Sep

How Will Student Loan Payments Impact Gen Z and

Today, student loan interest resumes for 43 million U.S. borrowers, with payments set to return starting in October.  It’s the primary time American borrowers — who owe a collective $1.6 trillion in student loan debt — will probably be expected to repay their loans since March 2020, when the Department of Education’s COVID-19 student loan forbearance program took effect.  And though the return of payments impacts Americans of all ages — 2023 data from Statista indicates that Gen X carries the most important average value of student loan debt, followed by Baby Boomers and Millennials — Gen Z is anticipated to soon overtake older generations in average debt because the cohort ages up.  “There isn't any doubt that the resumption of payments goes...
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5 Jul

FIT Student Presentations Foretell the Biggest Trends Impacting Beauty

What forces will impact the sweetness industry probably the most, worker behavior or AI? The arrival of India as an emerging market, or shoppers over the age of 60? Students from the 2023 class of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Masters in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management program had a powerful answer during their two capstone presentations last week: all the above. The theses, presented in-person on Thursday, posited that the change wrought on beauty by the pandemic will only speed up. Keeping pace, the groups agreed, was essential to long-term business health. Throughout the first presentation, students focused on a triumvirate of trends — the emergence of India as a key global market, tapping into the spending power of consumers over 60, and...
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13 Jun

Cue the Curves Wins Grand Prize at VentureCat, Northwestern’s

Cue the Curves, a social shopping app for plus-size fashion, has won VentureCat, Northwestern University’s annual student start-up competition powered by the Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice and cosponsored by Lanny and Sharon Martin. Twenty-five semifinalist teams competed for greater than $325,000 in prize money, with Cue the Curves taking home a complete of $160,000 (including the $10,000 that every one finalists get for making it to the semifinal and final rounds). “VentureCat was such an incredible experience,” said Charlotte Oxnam, founder and chief executive officer of Cue the Curves and a graduating senior in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. “It’s so great to get to work with other founders, to have the ability to support each other and...
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30 Dec

Missing Princeton Student Reportedly Died By Suicide – Essence

Misrach Ewunetie via GoFundMe Misrach Ewunetie, the missing Princeton University student whose body was found on campus in October, reportedly died by suicide. The 20-year-old was last seen in school on Oct. 14 near her residential constructing, and the university reported her missing on Oct. 16. Her body was found 4 days later behind campus tennis courts. On Wednesday, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release that Ewunetie student died by suicide. In October, the office said that “there have been no obvious signs of injury and her death doesn't appear suspicious or criminal in nature.” The Ethiopian student, who was expected to graduate in 2024, received a full four-year scholarship to attend the Ivy League school. She was ranked first in...
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