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Tennessee Liberal Arts College Cutting Tuition by 10 Percent
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsHere's one change in higher education that parents and students can get behind. Sewanee: The University of the South, announced that it will be dropping its $46,000 price of tuition next year by 10 percent, effectively bucking a trend of yearly 4 to 5 percent price hikes at private colleges. The university is making the change to better compete with cheaper public schools and other private schools that will likely continue to raise their price tags, The New York Times reports. "Higher education is on the verge of pricing itself beyond the reach of more and more families," Vice Chancellor ...
Ripping Off Writers Since 1852: The Literary Industrial Complex
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailySpeaking of cons...Having just taken on the happiness industry, I thought I would follow up by taking on the writing industry. Or, more precisely, the writer factory.Even graduates of bartending schools have some sort of employment on the horizon. But that just goes to show you the sheer genius of the literary-industrial complex. The available jobs after graduation are nothing more than a mirage, and even though everyone knows it, people still fork over millions of dollars.I should point out that there are at least two kinds of writer cons. First, there's the writing equivalent to the ads we ...
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