Stagnant state support for Montana's colleges and universities means efficiency needs to increase, he said at the University of Montana.
The administration also wants to give families clearer information about costs and quality, by requiring colleges and universities to offer a “shopping sheet” that makes it easier to compare financial aid packages and — for the first time — compiling pos …
It’s becoming a familiar story, university experiences are increasingly being characterized by: impractical learning, out-of-touch faculty, exorbitant tuitions, time-wasting requirements and diminishing probabilities of employment.
With state budgets tight and demand for a college education at a high point, public universities across the country are increasingly turning to the private sector to build and finance on-campus dormitories.
As the economic crisis enters its fifth year, the need for a new direction is painfully evident. More precisely, what is needed is a break with the socially corrosive and economically damaging policies of market liberalism that have prevailed since the 1970s.
His mission was to acknowledge their concerns – and remind them (and their families), in an election year, of what the Democratic-led White House has endeavored to do on their behalf.
The lawmakers say the state pays out $35 billion in corporate tax credits each year, and they want to use some of that money to fund college for Michigan's young people.
Timeline of a few key moments in the US higher education enterprise.
Something is fundamentally wrong with America’s college financial aid system when students from families with triple-digit incomes receive plenty of federal aid – while the less well-off are scrambling for it.
2011 was an eventful year for student financial aid, student loans and scholarships. This article summarizes the major events, positive and negative, for student aid in 2011. It also provides a few highlights of developments that are anticipated for 2012.
The study, commissioned by the State Board of Regents, found Utah schools generally receive less state funding than similar schools elsewhere. That means students bear much more of the financial burden for their education than their peers in other states.
When trying to understand why university costs have increased so dramatically, it is useful to examine three categories: inefficiency, administration and health care.
But the most dangerous part about the growing reliance on tuition is that it exacerbates inequality, making it more difficult for those of lower means to move up the economic ladder.
The consolidation would merge the two main campuses, plus Gainesville State's satellite campus in Watkinsville, plus the joint instructional center in Cumming, under one administrative roof, said Kate Maine, director of university relations at North Georgia.
Students attending for-profit colleges wind up with much higher student-loan debts, are less likely to be employed after graduation and generally earn less than similar students at public or private nonprofit schools, according to a recent paper from the National Bureau of Econ …
College tuition is, as any Occupy Wall Street demonstrator will tell you, too damn high.
While price is going up, cost has gone down. Then why is tuition increasing? The answer is simple: the state over time has reduced the amount it allocates for public higher education, forcing students to pay a higher price.
Could something comparable be in the works to push reform in higher education? Race to the Top started in 2009, when the administration was looking for smart ways to spend stimulus dollars. These days, new spending is out of the question.
At the heart of the commitment: guaranteed tuition for any student who graduates from the district and receives admission to college.
In 1988, a fifth-grade class at Seat Pleasant Elementary received an extraordinary gift: the offer of a college education paid for by two wealthy businessmen.
More than a year after earmarks were driven out of Congress, colleges and universities are feeling the strain of lost federal funding and warning lawmakers to think twice about making the ban permanent.
In today’s Academic Minute, Michael Schuckers of St. Lawrence University undertakes a statistical analysis of hockey’s most exciting feature. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.
What can the federal government do to bring down the costs of college? What can states do? How can colleges be more "thoughtful" about tuition, as Duncan requests? How much responsibility should higher education institutions take for rising college costs? Is the weak economy to …
While many of the cost-savings initiatives talked about at the conference revolved around technology, panelists threw out some other ideas as well.
This doesn’t mean that colleges capture all the aid in higher tuition charges, any more than capital-equipment companies get all the benefit of investment tax credits. But it does set up problems for two groups of students in particular.