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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 ...
London Students Protest Tuition Hike Vote [VIDEO]
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- Student protesters took to the streets of central London today to oppose a proposed plan that, if passed by Parliament, would triple university tuition fees in Britain. Despite nationwide demonstrations and opposition from some Liberal Democrats, who are also part of the Conservatives' governing coalition, the increase is expected to pass. The move is part of a broader austerity effort to reduce the country's budget deficit. "The real danger for the government is not that they won't pass it through, but that it will be a policy fiasco," London School of Economics professor ...
Students Clash With Police in London Tuition Protest
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 24) -- British students have once again taken to the streets to protest government plans to triple university fees and slash state funding for further education. Police have surrounded thousands of demonstrators near London's Houses of Parliament. A police van abandoned by officers in the middle of the crowd was attacked by a small mob, who rocked the vehicle back and forth, smashed its windshield with wooden poles and spray-painted an anarchist sign on the roof. However, soon after the attack began, other students formed a human chain around the vehicle to prevent further ...
Opinion: Are Law Schools Scamming Students?
By Mark Grabowski - AOL News(Oct. 15) -- You don't need a law degree to know that false advertising is against the law. So why is it that so many law schools appear to be doing just that: inflating job prospects for graduates while jacking up tuition rates? Last weekend, about 55,000 students took the LSAT -- the standardized test for law school. That's the second highest tally ever, according to exam officials. Most of these students are aiming for a law degree to get rich. In a 2008 Kaplan survey, 73 percent cited high income potential as a reason for attending law school. But the legal job market, decimated by the ...
Endangered: That Off-to-College Feeling
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThere's a chill in the air, and I'm reminded of an experience I never really had. Like nearly every woman my age, I saw the 1970 film "Love Story," set in a place that, compared to my blue-collar suburb in Dallas, looked magical. Houses had two stories, a street ends at an ocean, leaves turned crimson, and snow covered everything. Plus, you could fall in love with a handsome man with a Roman numeral name. Oliver Barrett IV was Old Money. In my neighborhood, there was no Old Money. Or New Money either, for that matter. The 1969 movie "The Sterile Cuckoo," filmed at Hamilton College in New ...
Opinion: Administrative Bloat Drives College Costs
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- As college students start returning to campus they -- and their parents -- face a troubling fact: Higher education costs have been rising so fast in recent years that they're going up even faster than health care costs. Since 1982, the average cost of college tuition and fees has increased by 439 percent, while the typical family's income increased by a mere 147 percent. College has been put financially out of reach from some students, while crushing others with debt. But even more troubling is the cause of these skyrocketing costs: administrative bloat. In fact, as a new ...
Online Donations Fight Student Debt at ScholarMatch, SponsorMyDegree
By Samantha Michaels - Politics DailyFor years, teenagers have used the Internet to connect with their families and friends. Now, they're using it to connect with strangers who can help them pay for college. Take Eddie Ashley, a recent graduate of Oakland Technical High School in California. As a high school senior, Ashley wasn't sure how he would pay for his first year at the University of California Riverside, where he hoped to pursue a career goal in environmental engineering. He had lost his mother to an autoimmune disease in middle school, and although he managed to maintain good grades while caring for his younger ...
Student Protests Erupt in California as Regents Raise Tuition 32 Percent
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyHundreds of students from around the state converged on the University of California-Los Angeles this week to protest a vote there by state regents Thursday to raise tuition 32 percent to combat major cuts in state funding. Rallying outside UCLA's Covel Commons, where the regents held a three-day meeting, demonstrators beat drums, chanted and carried signs that said "R.I.P. Our Future." On Wednesday, 14 protesters were arrested -- 12 of them students. The next afternoon, after the vote for the tuition hike, students linked arms in an attempt to block the regents from leaving the building, ...
Career Services or Class Action?
By Helena Andrews - Politics DailyThis weekend, after reading two very different stories about the alumni leg up or not, I was reminded of this guy I sort of knew in college. This kid was the type who wore boat shoes and navy blue Polo shirts to class and sometimes spoke with a weird affectation that was part Thurston Howell III and part Richie Rich (sometime after his thirteenth birthday). I couldn't tell you Mr. Boat Shoes's real name, where he was from or what he does now. When I think of him what I remember most is something a friend of mine overheard him say. They were both volunteering at the Office of Admissions and ...
College Tuition Soars, Congress Chafes
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyThe student loan business is an $85 billion industry. And the College Board has announced that college tuition rates have increased at double the rate of inflation over the past year. Of course, this is a catch-22. The government wants to help youngsters pay for college - particularly those with financial needs - and so subsidizes and charters entities from which would-be students may borrow needed funds (e.g., Sallie Mae). Colleges, realizing that the government will lend money to cover students' tuition costs, respond by raising the cost of admission. The government thus coughs ...
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