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Vanessa Richardson from Bankrate.com wrote a story about entrepreneurs who start businesses in difficult economic climates. As Higher One was founded during a difficult economic time, Mark Volchek, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CFO, was interviewed for the article.

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Cerritos College is the 10^th institution in California to distribute financial aid awards through Higher One’s OneDisburse® Refund Management®

New Haven, CT -July 1, 2009 - Higher One, a financial services and payment company focused exclusively on higher education, announced it has been selected by Cerritos College in California to disburse financial aid awards to students.

Currently at Cerritos College, financial aid disbursements are issued by paper check. The manual process at Cerritos encouraged staff to research options to better service their students as well as make the business office more efficient.

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URI is the first Rhode Island institution to partner with Higher One

Kingston, RI - June 30, 2009 - University of Rhode Island students who may be due a refund for any tuition or related expenses during their years at URI will no longer have to wait to receive a check. Instead, URI students will now have the option to choose from multiple electronic methods for receiving their refunds.

The University has partnered with Higher One, a financial services and payment company, to provide a new, cost- and time-saving service for its students.

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Louisville adds more payment options for tuition payments with OnePay

New Haven, CT - June 16, 2009- Higher One, a financial services and payment

company focused exclusively on higher education, announced the University of Louisville has implemented Higher One’s new service, OnePay, to enhance the way students and parents make payments to the University.

OnePay is a complimentary, hosted, PCI compliant, web based payment solution that enables Colleges and Universities to accept incoming tuition and fee payments from students and parents online.

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Recently, Miles Lasater, Co-Founder and COO at Higher One, was interviewed on KTRH Morning News with Lana Hughes and J.P. Pritchard in Houston. Miles spoke about the results of a recent survey Higher One conducted on how confident students are in their ability to manage their own money.

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