tuition Index
March 02, 2009
You don't have to go to a school in Alaska, Minnesota, or Michigan for your tuition to freeze, even in March. Tuition freezes have, shockingly, nothing to do with a school's location. No, a tuition freeze means you'll pay the same amount for tuition every year for a set number of years (2 or 3) -- though room and board will still increase.
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February 09, 2009
Last week I was on a panel for the Educational Policy Institute presenting to a large number of muckety mucks about what the new presidential administration is proposing and could do regarding access and affordability for higher education. A few thoughts...
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January 16, 2009
A new stimulus bill introduced by Democrats to the House of Representatives yesterday offers $825 billion in funding for, well, everything from nutrition to the DTV conversion. But does it have anything for higher education? You bet it does. The bill calls for $41 billion for education.
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December 19, 2008
We've seen huge markdowns on a lot of pricey items recently, even before Christmas. Everything that has a sticker price of substantial value can be talked down -- cars, diamonds, homes. Everything ... except an education. Or maybe not. St. John's University in New York is responding to to the economic quagmire in a unique way.
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December 10, 2008
The economy has students and their parents talking about finances more than ever. A survey of FastWeb users revealed that 57.1% of high school juniors and seniors talked with their parents within the last week about finances for college.
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December 04, 2008
The mortgage meltdown and resulting economic crisis has students and their families reevaluating college admission plans. Incoming students are increasingly reluctant to travel far from home, families are more reluctant to take on student-loan debt, and students are applying to more schools in hopes of larger financial aid offers. And more students are considering public universities over small private colleges.
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December 04, 2008
So maybe you've heard, college is expensive. Yeah, yeah, yawn. But maybe it's not a yawn. Did you hear about the student who has to drop out of school because her parents had to declare bankruptcy? Or about the ones who thought they were completely covered by loans, but oops, they didn't read the fine print, and now they owe $5,000 unexpectedly? Ready to scream?
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