by Anne Ryman – The Republic | azcentral.com After three straight years of large tuition increases, students appearing at university hearings Wednesday called for the Arizona Board of Regents to […]
Lee Bierer Lee Bierer is an independent college adviser based in Charlotte. Whenever I’ve written about financial aid issues, it’s always been directed toward high school seniors, but a […]
Evan McGlinn for The New York Times Nathaly Lopera in her Passport class, one of several programs she attends to help her get into college. More Photos » By MICHAEL […]
Marcus Baram It sits in the mailbox and taunts us: The thin sliver of an envelope, recognizable by the logo in the top-left corner, arrives every month. And my wife […]
This is about a week old, but the comments are pretty telling. What do you think? Originally posted by Posted by Brad Plumer Earlier this week, the College Board released […]
What’s behind the runaway cost of a college education? According to the College Board, tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students at public four-year colleges are up an average 8.3 […]
Although more Americansare getting help from scholarships and tax breaks, the net cost of college is eating up a higher share of the typical family’s income in 2011, according to […]
By Laura Rowley College Finance Oct. 29 is the federal deadline for U.S. colleges to put “net price calculators” on their websites. These tools are supposed to estimate the actual […]
On sale today, costs of tuition plans have risen dramatically Written by Chris Umpierre Kim Purdy is thankful she already bought Florida Prepaid College Plans for her three young children. […]
A report released last week has drawn new attention
The nation‘s educators must work to improve college completion rates for Latino students if the United States is to remain economically competitive in the world, according to a report released […]
Written by Libby A. Nelson New federal requirements have lately been likely to draw groans and complaints from college and university officials who feel deluged by ever-changing rules and […]
Recent grads are finding themselves swamped by bills for their education. By Terrie Morgan-Besecker tmorgan@timesleader.com Law & Order Reporter Justin Kozloski of Dallas job shadowing reporters at The Times Leader. […]
By Star-Telegram The bright promise of a fresh semester that begins this week for college students in Texas also carries a bit of gray cloud behind it. That’s because higher […]
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By Janet Lorin When Gaston Caperton was recruited to run the College Board, owner of the SAT entrance exam, he said he didn’t want to just run “a testing company.” […]
“I predict strong financial pressure on colleges and universities that aren’t a good investment for students.”– Glenn Reynolds, University of Tennessee College of Law By Bruce Wright There was a […]
LEANNE ITALIE,Associated Press Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Trey Rasmussen excelled at hockey at his Martha’s Vineyard high school. Academics, not so much. “I was planning on graduating and just jumping […]
By Michele Weldon Last weekend I moved my oldest son out of the rundown, $3,000-a-month apartment he shared with five other University of Wisconsin at Madison students. It was six […]
By Gaston Caperton President, College Board from Huffington post One of the problems with education reform is that US high schools operate under ambiguous orders. On the surface, there seems […]
Predatory lending practices targeting students symptom of broken education system By Ryan Hamilton While talking heads on news channels crow and manufacture umbrage over the deficit and the debt ceiling, […]
By Liz Skinner Financial advisers who go beyond what is typical in terms of helping with college planning are finding that clients reward them later with assets. Certainly, many advisers […]
By Lisa Lambert, Reuters (Reuters) – When Emi Young decided to attend Pomona College in California a few years ago, she broke with a tradition as closely associated with U.S. […]
By Sally Rummel While increases in tuition at public universities are expected to slow, on average, many schools are raising it by 10 to 15 percent, adding hundreds of dollars […]
As portrayed on the left axis, median income has hovered around $33,000 since 1988. Meanwhile, college tuition and fees — portrayed on the right axis — have more than doubled. […]
Almost 20 states have cut funding for colleges, raising costs for students — starting now With freshman orientation right around the corner, many college students and their parents are about […]
By Frank McCoy None of the following is good news: the cost of college education keeps soaring upward. But to promote transparency, the U.S. Department of Education urges parents, students […]
By Merlene Davis In recent weeks, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., and Newt Gingrich, both of whom are vying to be the next Republican presidential candidate, blamed President Barack […]
By Beckie Supiano and Elyse Ashburn Washington Colleges have stumbled into an age of accountability. The government and the public are evermore interested in holding them responsible: for what students […]
The spectacular rise in US college tuition fees is becoming a serious problem for students and many American families as they grapple with the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. […]
By Christina Couch There’s only one golden rule of college finance — look beyond the sticker price. For students with good grades, these institutions are educational steals, thanks to their […]
Peter Thiel is not the enemy of all parents who ever felt cold terror shoot up their spine upon hearing their teen offhandedly talk about skipping college. Thiel, an early investor […]
By Mary Beth Marklein More than 50 U.S. colleges and universities participated in a higher education fair in Jakarta, Indonesia, to recruit students to U.S. colleges. The University of Cincinnati […]
New College Board Research on Young Men of Color Stirs Demand for Action By Jamaal Abdul-Alim While a panel discussion held by The College Board on Capitol Hill this week […]
A new study has found that two of the four main parts of the ACT — science and reading — have “little or no” ability to help colleges predict whether […]
By James Vaznis The College Board unveiled an initiative at a forum at Harvard University yesterday to improve the academic achievement of young men of color, saying that bolstering their […]
What do you get when college costs skyrocket but incomes barely budge? Yet another blow to the middle class. “As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster […]
By LILY ALTAVENA The College Board is releasing two reports today on the crisis facing young black and Latino men, who, the reports find, continue to be measurably less educated […]
Bt Scott Kirk When do you start talking to your child about college? When he’s 12? When she’s 16? How about pre-kindergarten? The College Board, the people who brought us […]
By Ryan C. Fuhrmann A 2009 report by the Atlantic Monthly Group detailed that education costs increased at a faster rate than healthcare in 27 of the 30 years it […]
By Neil Morton South Texas College and University of Texas-Pan American officials can hardly restrain the ample confidence hidden behind their modest smiles when discussing CEOs for Cities’ Talent Dividend […]
Professors grumble it’s the Seven Deadly Sins of Higher Education AUSTIN, Texas — When barbecue research is second-guessed in Texas, the turmoil in higher education must be getting serious. Responding […]
