CNN story focusing on challenges facing college students as they try to pay for their education in a tough economy. Features interviews with Eldon Creer, 2009 Berry graduate, and Berry President Stephen R. Briggs. Dr. Briggs is seen discussing a new scholarship program designed to help students graduate debt free in four years.

This video was shown at the formal announcement of Utah State University's comprehensive capital campaign to raise money for scholarships, faculty endowments and facilities to support the mission of the institution. More information can be found at www.usu.edu

As you may see today we can find almost everything in the Internet.. All kind of information about any thing, event, and person is available. When it concerns maters of education, people look for different information about colleges, universities, educational programs and online education.Nowadays there are a lot of people who prefer to get higher education through the Internet, because for them this way is the most suitable and convenient. So, using the Internet people look for proper educational establishments and online degree programs, but completely forget to look for information about accreditation. And this is a big mistake, because accreditation is very important especially for online degrees.First of all, accreditation shows that you received education and degree which correspond to all established educational standards.   If chosen university or college has necessary accreditation, it means that you’ll get the education of high quality and accredited educational establishments are accountable for their actions. Degree from accredited university will be accepted by any employer. Other reasons of the importance of accreditation are the following ones: if student wants to get some kind of financial aid, it is necessary to be a student of accredited college or university: if students want to transfer his credits from one university to other, it can be done only in these universities are accredited. Degree of accredited university is a universal proof of your education.With such development of online education it is necessary to be careful and in order to avoid various attempts to cheat you by unfair educational establishments which offer cheap and fast degrees which in fact are useless.