Colleges and Universities

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Four Potential Futures of the College System

by Clark Aldrich  Unschooling Rules 49: College: the hardest no-win decision your family may ever make.

Tuition Hike?

by Matthew Albright Bill aims to bring cost in line with southern average Kristen Braud and Shawn Champagne, nursing seniors at Nicholls State University, study Monday on campus. A bill in the Legislature would allow the state’s colleges and universities to increase tuition to the southern regional average, potentially costing Nicholls State University and Fletcher … Continue reading »

College Math 101: Calculating the Real Cost of Attending

By RACHEL LOUISE ENSIGN College acceptance letters are rolling in. Now the hard part-figuring out where the kids can afford to go. WSJ’s Rachel Louise Ensign shares what’s key to navigating those utility-bill-like financial aid awards on Lunch Break.

Tool estimates education’s cost

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 new tool in the marketplace has been developed that assists families of high school underclassmen predict the cost of college.

Higher education in 2012: a global perspective

Eliza Anyangwe In the last of our (The Guardian) predictions series, we ask HE leaders in the US, Australia, India and South Africa to share what trends and issues could have the most impact on the sector

What the Top 1% of Earners Majored In

By ROBERT GEBELOFF and SHAILA DEWAN | New York Times – We got an interesting question from an academic adviser at a Texas university: could we tell what the top 1 percent of earners majored in?

How to Get a $106,000 College Education for Free – Lynn O’Shaughnessy

How would you like to go to a private liberal arts college that will give you a full-ride tuition scholarship for four years? Sounds crazy? Actually, I’m serious.

Proposal sets tuition increase but students won’t see fees rise

By Rene Cardona Jr. Students will see an increase in tuition for the coming 2013-2014 biennium, which will fund new initiatives to improve academic success, and although some fees will be adjusted, the total amount paid will not change. UTB/TSC officials sent a proposal describing the changes in tuition and fees to the University of … Continue reading »

Trouble in Texas

Posted by Steven Harper Last month, University of Texas President Bill Powers asked his law school dean, Larry Sager, to resign months ahead of his originally planned departure at the end of the academic year. According to the Texas Tribune, Sager’s relationship with the law school’s faculty “had become so strained that he was no longer able … Continue reading »

Online learning keeps evolving

By Elizabeth Tice Driven by student demand, technology, a troubled economy and roiling demographic changes, the continued growth of online and distance learning has become a force that is not only forever changing how education is delivered but will also drive economic change by preparing today’s workers for the technology-based jobs of tomorrow. The rapid … Continue reading »

Cigarroa on The Obama Invite List

Who is headed to the White House today for the meeting with President Obama on college costs and productivity? According to a representative of a higher education association, the group will include the leaders of three state university systems: Nancy Zimpher, chancellor of the State University of New York; Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the University … Continue reading »

Countdown to college: Tips for narrowing the college list

By LEE BIERER McClatchy Newspapers Take a deep breath, hit the “submit” button and then exhale. Thousands of students are doing this every day. But, at the same time they are wondering if they really need to be applying to as many colleges as they had originally planned. September and October produce long lists of … Continue reading »

The rising cost of college

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 percent this year, roughly three times the overall rate of inflation. (In South Carolina, the increase was a more moderate 2.5 percent.) The costs for … Continue reading »

Money for minorities

By Ryan Utter There’s a belief that minorities receive more scholarships and grants than other students. This belief may also be the reason many students are inhibited from applying for scholarships because they aren’t some unique mixture of unheard ethnicities.

Students, Parents Are Determined Despite Rising College Tuition Costs

They were on the lookout for scholarships and financial aid at the City of Commerce’s sixth annual college fair. By Elizabeth Hsing-Huei Chou, EGP Staff Writer More than 700 people descended on Commerce this past weekend with one mission in mind – getting to college in one piece. The annual Commerce to College Fair attracted … Continue reading »

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