So while as a "give everyone a chance to succeed" kind of guy, I certainly want to see everyone who needs it get the chance to go to college — I'm also fairly comfortable with people financing their college educations through student loans, since they are, after all, the …
The issues represent a classic topic for applied economics—the effects of different means of allocating scarce resources among competing claimants.
What Friedman could have said, and Armen Alchian did say in a classic 1968 article, is that state subsidies to higher education are a subsidy to the relatively rich.
Enrollment at Maryland colleges and universities increased by a record 5.2 percent this fall, wiping away concerns that the recession might keep students from pursuing higher education, according to a report released Wednesday by the Maryland Higher Education Commission.
Oregon should convert its largest universities into public corporations so they have more freedom to raise money and revitalize the state's stifled higher education system, Dave Frohnmayer, recently retired president of the University of Oregon, said Wednesday.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), or the stimulus, provided some $21 billion for scientific research and development, the purchase of scientific equipment, and science-related construction.
"Enrollment has been growing steadily, but this was a tidal wave for us this fall," said the college's president, Gail O. Mellow, pointing out that the student body had risen by almost 50 percent in the past decade. "I've never seen anything like this.
"At least to date, the evidence we have suggest the PROMISE scholarship isn't having a big impact on the state's human capital," said George Hammond, associate director of the bureau.
The record-breaking enrollment surge at Colorado's public community colleges and four-year schools could be too much of a good thing, college leaders fear.
The University of Phoenix has responded [1] (PDF) to our recent story on its enrollment practices [2], calling it a "nothing more than a series of anecdotes." We reported the story with Amy Scott of Marketplace and you can hear the resulting radio stories here [3] and here [4].
Receiving financial aid appears to have a significant positive impact on the educational performance of college students from low-income families, but many higher-education institutions are bending to pressure to give aid to other students who do not necessarily need it, accordin …
Overall college attendance has been going up for about 30 years; what's new is the sharp uptick at community colleges, driven in large part by recessionary bargain hunting and closer ties between two- and four-year colleges that give students more confidence they'll be able to tr …
Already wounded by budget reductions that came in July and before, college leaders are now scrambling to squeeze even more from coffers, daunted by the real expectation that there are further cuts still to come.
Arthur Call commutes three hours roundtrip to his anatomy class at community college because similar courses on campuses closer to his Indianapolis home are packed this semester.
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Almost 40 percent of the nation's 18- to 24-year-olds in 2008 were enrolled in college, a record number, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Thursday.
President Mark G. Yudof announces plans to raise $1 billion in private funds over the next four years and to expand an existing aid program to more middle-income families.
Very few students are taking advantage of a new law that allows illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at University of Wisconsin System schools, according to university data.
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.
The gap in educational success between rich and poor areas of Britain is widening, despite investment of millions of pounds each year, according to research published today.
This site tracks the status of congressional bills in a straight-forward, easy to understand way.
I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize.
Under the House bill, the grants would rise with the consumer price index, plus 1 percentage point, starting in 2011. The estimated maximum award in 2019 would be $6,900.
Debate about college costs and the role of student aid.
As a side effect of Miami-Dade County's 11.7% unemployment, enrollment has soared at four colleges and universities here. The fall surge swept over Florida International University, Miami Dade College, St.
Undergraduate enrollments are up 7 percent since last year across the state college and university system, and officials have moved more of their financial aid dollars into needs-based awards, the state Board of Higher Education learned at a meeting in Gardner yesterday.
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The issues represent a classic topic for applied economics—the effects of different means of allocating scarce resources among competing claimants.
"Enrollment has been growing steadily, but this was a tidal wave for us this fall," said the college's president, Gail O. Mellow, pointing out that the student body had risen by almost 50 percent in the past decade. "I've never seen anything like this.
"At least to date, the evidence we have suggest the PROMISE scholarship isn't having a big impact on the state's human capital," said George Hammond, associate director of the bureau.
The gap in educational success between rich and poor areas of Britain is widening, despite investment of millions of pounds each year, according to research published today.
I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize.