The Rio Grande Valley Sports Network will be holding its annual Football Recruiting Workshop event on July 10, 2007 at 7:00pm. The event will feature Randy Rodgers, former University of Texas Recruiting Coordinator. He is currently a scout for 40 division one universities and colleges. The workshop will teach student athletes the proper way to be recruited, the importance of academics and the life-altering challenges players face when playing football at a the college level. COSTEP, a..

COSTEP would like to announce and publicly congratulate our Spring 2010 Scholarship Winners: $500 to Marie Garza, attending University of Texas - Pan American $500 to Seth Boddicker, attending Austin College Each recipient will receive a scholarship toward the cost of tuition at their respective college or university. COSTEP is proud to award these scholarships in order to help accomplish dreams of going to college. ..

It’s been nearly a year in the making and COSTEP is preparing to launch what is hailed as an extremely ambitious, comprehensive, dynamic website. The new COSTEP.org site was developed to give a wide-range of information regarding the student loan process and to make the information easy to retrieve. “The site has been built using the latest technologies that are setting the new standard for interaction and customer value," said Joel Wilson, project manager and assistant developer for..

COSTEP would like to announce and publicly congratulate our Fall 2007 Scholarship Winners: $500 to Jessica Yvonne Vasquez (currently attending Texas A&M University) $500 to Luis Leal (currently attending Blinn Junior College) $500 to Adriel De La Cruz (attending Sam Houston State University) $500 to Felicia Perez (attending St. Phillip's College) $500 to Gregory Maurice McEwen (attending University of Texas-San Antonio) $250 to Darryk..

Students and parents are now preparing for the interest rate hike on student loans by consolidating before new interest rates go into effect. Beginning July 1, 2007 student loans, with variable interest rates, will rise by .08 percent. “This is not a huge increase, but why pay at the higher rate if you don’t have to,” said Mari Mann-Silva, vice-president of Financial Operations, for the not-for-profit Council for South Texas Economic Progress (COSTEP). Rates have increased over..

COSTEP Launches Unique Scholarship Program for Facebook Members COSTEP, a not-for-profit servicer of student loans, announced that it has launched their “Scholarship Caps” program on the popular online social network Facebook. Facebook boasts 35 million members as of July 2007, with a core membership consisting of those who are in college or near college-age. Being made available to eligible Facebook members is a total of $5,000 in scholarships. “Facebook members explain why..

COSTEP would like to announce and publicly congratulate our Fall 2009 Scholarship Winners: $1000 to Ronak Ghiya $1000 to Benjamin Pedraza $1000 to Brianna Cobb $1000 to Dorothea Sykes $1000 to Genita Maligi Each recipient will receive a scholarship toward the cost of tuition at their respective college or university. COSTEP is proud to award these scholarships in order to help accomplish dreams of going to college. (Click here for a more complete list of..