Wilson College freezes tuition for second consecutive year
Gettysburg Times
In recognition of how student debt is a growing impediment to achieving the dream of a college education, Wilson College will hold the line on tuition again next year for full-time, undergraduate students. The decision, made by the Board of Trustees at ...
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Toledo Blade
Only 26 percent of Ohio adults have a four-year college degree, compared with 31 percent nationwide. Each percentage point by which the state lags the national rate costs the Ohio economy an estimated $2.5 billion a year. By 2018, a recent study ...
Boston Globe
Online-education trend expands
USA TODAY
Last week, the American Council on Education, an association for higher education presidents, raised the possibility that such courses could count toward a degree when it said it would review several to determine whether they ought to be eligible for ...
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Five-school consortium seeks to bring higher education downtown
NewsOK.com
Five-school consortium seeks to bring higher education downtown. If you walk into the fourth floor of the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library in the middle of a weekday afternoon, you might get the impression that nothing goes on there. Wait around an ...
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Legislators Weigh Options for Tuition Deregulation
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The 2013 legislative session will mark the 10th anniversary of a decision by Texas lawmakers to deregulate college tuition, giving the authority to set tuition at public universities to the institutions. Since deregulation, the average cost of tuition ...
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Admissions director holds key to UW's door
The Seattle Times
These are tough times for college admissions directors. The cost of tuition has skyrocketed. Popular articles question the value of a four-year degree. The state's flagship university has made room for more international students, attracting top ...
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Urban League's program gives dropouts a taste of college
Orlando Sentinel
Cordaro Norwood made it to 12th grade before being expelled. Yolanda Martinez dropped out in the 11th grade. Norwood is 22 and has never held a steady job. Martinez, 21, works as a seasonal, part-time employee at an amusement park. On this day, they ...
Prop 30 Tax Revenues to Be Diverted from Higher Ed to Wall Street, Thanks to ...
The Nation. (blog)
Over the last decade, tuition and fees for undergraduates in the UC system have tripled, adding enormous debt burdens to UC graduates and pushing lower-income students into the already overstretched state college and community college systems, or out ...
Gates Backs MIT Online Course Offering at Community Colleges
Businessweek
The Gates Foundation provided $1 million over a year and a half to see how online education can be used to expand offerings at two-year community colleges, said Anant Agarwal, EdX's president and founder. “It's been a real challenge for community ...
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New frontier for scaling up online classes: credit
Kansas City Star
Or will they truly transform higher education, at last shaking up an enterprise that's seemed incapable of improving productivity, thus dooming itself to ever-rising prices? Much of the answer depends on the concept at the center of a string of recent ...
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