New Clif Bar Scholarship Alleviates Debt to Help College Seniors Pursue Purposeful Careers – Sustainable Brands

Image credit: Shopify Burst Clif Bar & Company attributes its success to not selling out when the owners walked away from a $120 million buyout offer in 2000. Instead, they kept the company private and invented their five-bottom-line business model focused on sustaining the business, its brands, its people, the community and the planet. Now,…

Avoid high student debt and dropping out by asking these 4 questions about any college – The Conversation US

Even though for-profit colleges get a bad rap for being predatory and leaving students saddled with debt but no degree, a significant number of private nonprofit and public colleges have the same issues. For example, a recent analysis examined 781 colleges where most students borrow and few can repay their loans. While the analysis found…