Guest column: How sustainable is higher education in Michigan?
MLive.com
Snyder also deserves kudos for recognizing that an opportunity to attend college begins in the earliest years of life, by investing 130 million in quality early childhood education. You don't build a solid house from the second floor down, but with a ...
Editorial: Grading universities will improve performanceThe Detroit News
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A higher education call to action
Daily Caller
Recently, he joined business leaders, policymakers and education stakeholders at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum to deliver a simple message: higher education provides the opportunity for success, but it does not guarantee it. Rubio also stressed the ...
Playing For-Profit Education Stocks: The Government's Bet On The U.S. EconomySeeking Alpha
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Michigan Radio
Commentary: Higher education and the future
Michigan Radio
That's close to the current inflation rate, which means, essentially, no extra money for state colleges and universities. Now, you can argue that times are still tough and everyone has to watch spending. But in fact, higher education has been hit ...
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The Company That's Been Re-Thinking Online Education For 100+ Years
BostInno (blog)
The Penn Foster team understands a one-size-fits-all approach can't be taken to education, and has therefore provided a more flexible way to obtain either a high school diploma or a college degree. “We continue to modernize the student experience ...
Colleges face pressure to justify soaring tuition
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Are new college graduates in the U.S. getting value for their increasingly pricey education? That's what a growing number of parents and students want to know as the cost of higher education continues tp rise while the job market remains ...
Tuition increases on tap at state colleges
The Connecticut Mirror
Connecticut university officials plan to vote on a proposal Tuesday that will raise the cost of college for in-state residents by 5.1 percent next fall and decrease the price for college-bound students from other states by 2.6 percent. The plan that ...
Tuition Increases Proposed For Community College, State University StudentsCBS Local
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With $11M From NEA, Comcast & Others, Quad Learning Wants To Create A ...
TechCrunch
Higher education in the U.S. is a hot mess. For decades, funding for public universities and colleges has been in steady decline, which, as spending continued, led to rising institutional debt and eventually reductions in faculty, courses, programs ...
The Download: DC education technology start-up Quad Learning tackles college ...Washington Post
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Not What They Signed Up For?
Inside Higher Ed
He said he was originally planning to attend a liberal arts college in the Midwest before learning that he could skip straight to Aristotle's master's program -- despite only having an associate degree. He said that when he showed up at Aristotle in ...
Veterans Flocking to Higher Education, But Some Face Obstacles
WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio
A record number of veterans are heading back to school. One incentive has been the Post 9/11 GI Bill. It enhanced education benefits, starting in 2009. They now cover undergraduate tuition and provide veterans with a monthly living allowance and book ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Obama Says Colleges Should Keep Costs Low and Hints at 'Alternative ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
For the second year in a row, President Obama used his State of the Union address to take colleges to task over rising tuition, warning that "taxpayers can't keep subsidizing higher and higher and higher costs for higher education." "Colleges must do ...
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