Deseret News
Tuition is rising because colleges are shoveling money to programs like water polo
Deseret News
In Ginsberg's mind, that water polo player captures a core problem with American higher education and a key reason why tuition has skyrocketed. Ginsberg grew so concerned that, like any good academic, he wrote a book, “The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise ...
The State
University of South Carolina names first chancellor of online college
The State
Elkins will oversee the Palmetto College, an online course program starting next fall that will allow students at the university's two-year colleges get four-year degrees. About 500-1,000 students are expected in the first year of the Palmetto College ...
usan Elkins to Lead South Carolina Palmetto CollegeWLTX.com
USC names chancellor for new online collegeWIS
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Omaha World-Herald
Proposed state-college tuition freeze reflects Nebraska's priorities
Kearney Hub
Gov. Dave Heineman's proposed tuition freeze at the University of Nebraska and state colleges represents the high priority that he and other state policy makers have placed on higher education, which also is reflected in the level of funding from the ...
Broom/Fortier/Samuel: Lawmakers must restore funding for higher educationNashua Telegraph
Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapersWHLT22
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OP-ED: State should pursue $10000 college degree
San Mateo Daily Journal
California's need for well-educated workers collides head-on with the fast-rising cost of higher education. One legislator's plan for a new low-cost college degree needs more thorough analysis to see if the idea makes financial sense. But the ...
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Report says college degree is an advantage during the recession
Phys.Org
In the 2007-09 recession, college graduates fared better in terms of employment and wages than their less-educated counterparts, according to a study by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Credit: L.A. Cicero. (Phys.org)—Good news, grads.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: UND gets renewable fuel technology patent ...
Grand Forks Herald
HIGHER EDUCATION NOTEBOOK: UND gets renewable fuel technology patent published. The U.S. Patent Office recently published a UND patent that allows a byproduct of UND's renewable fuel production technology to be collected and commercialized, ...
Dean of Robert D. Clark Honors College
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
... Oregon, founded in 1876, is the state's flagship institution of higher education, a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), and classified in the top category of research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of ...
Spoiled Children
Inside Higher Ed
Much discussion about higher education assumes that the children of wealthy parents have all the advantages, and they certainly have many. But a new study reveals an area where they may be at a disadvantage. The study found that the more money (in ...
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Omaha World-Herald
Proposed state-college tuition freeze reflects Nebraska's priorities
Omaha World-Herald
Justine Goeden finds herself constantly running between her classes at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and two jobs — one at a day care center, another at a doctor's office. But it's a price that the 20-year-old West Point, Neb., native is willing ...
Broom/Fortier/Samuel: Lawmakers must restore funding for higher educationNashua Telegraph
Affordable EducationNebraska City News Press
Recent editorials published in Nebraska newspapersNECN
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Xavier Flory | Higher grades, worse education
The Daily Pennsylvanian
“I have to lower my standards every year — half the people in my class can't even string a coherent essay together,” said a professor of comparative literature who preferred to remain anonymous. “But if I gave the grades students truly deserved, there ...
Penn College excited about move to NCAAWilliamsport Sun-Gazette
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