OSU president working to keep college cost in line
Akron Beacon Journal
President Obama echoed a similar theme in his State of the Union address this month: “Taxpayers can't keep on subsidizing higher and higher and higher costs for higher education,” he said. “Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and it's our ...
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New Legislation Could Secure a College Education for All in Rockford
MyStateline.com
After the senate passes the bill and the governor signs it, it will allow Rockford 's city council to craft a program that will secure private funding and channel it into scholarships for students to attend Rock Valley College . The same would work for ...
Las Vegas Sun
Seamless e-learning system pushed for Nevada higher education
Las Vegas Review - Journal
Nevada's public colleges and universities must better embrace online education, or their students will go elsewhere. That was the message an education consultant delivered Friday to the board that governs public higher education in Nevada. "If we don't ...
JOHN CRISP: Online education calls for note of cautionSan Angelo Standard Times
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Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition
Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK — For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For free. Its founder envisioned higher education open to all — regardless of race, gender or class — an ...
San Francisco Chronicle
How author hacked his own education
San Francisco Chronicle
Sitting in a cafe in the Mission District, a few doors down from where he lives, Stephens, who is 21, said, "We shouldn't be asking, 'How can I get a college degree?' Instead, we should ask, 'How can I get the things a degree promises?' " In light of ...
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New BLS Data Show Gender Gap Growing in College Education
Businessweek
A report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics today says that young women have opened up a big lead over young men in education. By the October when they were 25 years old, 30 percent of women and just 22 percent of men had received a bachelor's ...
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Purdue tuition freeze reignites conversation about rising cost of college
Fox 59
Data released by The Commission for Higher Education reveals that nearly two-thirds of Hoosiers are graduating in debt and borrow about $27,000 on average to finance their four year degree. Thirty-five percent of students have also defaulted on their ...
College Degree Attainment Lags For Young Men, Minorities, Study Shows
Huffington Post
While the study, which began in 1997, did not track wages, "the pattern is quite obvious that the higher educated are doing much better," said DiPrete, who analyzed other data from the BLS's long-term survey in his forthcoming book, "The Rise of Women ...
After Lottery Change, Lyon College Freezes Tuition, Fees for Next Year
Arkansas Business Online
Lyon College in Batesville said it has frozen tuition and fees for the 2013-14 school year because it wants to keep Lyon "affordable and accessible to students and their families." The move follows changes to the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. by ...
More college degrees vs. just more studentsLog Cabin Democrat
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Famed Free NYC College May Start Charging Tuition
ABC News
For more than a century, Cooper Union has been a one-of-a-kind meritocracy: Open to any student qualified to walk through its doors. For free. Its founder envisioned higher education open to all — regardless of race, gender or class — an ideal that ...
Cooper Union, long home to free education for all, faces vote to charge ...Fox News
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