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- Surviving the University Crisis In California
- Yesterday my sister Jane contacted me in a panic. She's terrified that her son, who is a senior at an excellent public high school in the San Francisco Bay area, might get shut out of every state university on his list. And no, my sister isn't paranoid....
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
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- Executive M.B.A. Grads Decide to Look Elsewhere
- Traditionally, employers have paid tuitions for select employees to earn executive M.B.A.s (E.M.B.A.s) with the expectation that these executives will stick around afterward and put the company's investment to use. But layoffs amid a down economy, plus a diminished bond between employers and employees, are resulting in more executives job-hopping...
- White papers 2003-12-26
- MU caps tuition increases at 6.5% a year for next 4 years
- Marquette University will guarantee it: Currently enrolled full-time students and 1995 entering freshmen will not see their tuitions increase by more than 6.5% per year for the next four years. "Time and again we hear from parents that one of their biggest concerns is the unpredictability of...
- Research articles 1995-02-10
- Student-Loan Secrets
- As millions of high-school seniors ripped open college-acceptance letters last week, a brewing student-loan scandal was dragging in a growing number of schools, for-profit loan companies and government officials. In recent years, while college tuitions have soared and federal funding of student grants and loans have languished,...
- Research articles 2007-04-16
- The less-costly way to college Students turning to community schools as state funds wither; university tuitions rise.(News)
- Byline: Tara Malone Daily Herald Staff Writer Emily Restis always knew she would go to college, but when it came time to choose a school, the recent high school graduate faced some daunting questions. Where should she go? How...
- Research articles 2003-07-20
- Massachusetts Governor Proposes Higher College Tuitions, Mergers of Schools.
- The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--Governor Mitt Romney yesterday proposed dramatically reshaping the state's public higher education landscape, increasing college tuition by as much as 28 percent, merging six colleges into three, and significantly expanding the University of...
- Research articles 2003-02-27
- Kerry offers college-aid plan.
- By Patrick Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 30--CHICAGO -- Presidential candidate John F. Kerry said yesterday that he would give $10 billion to states for higher education if they capped soaring college tuition increases, a proposal that would...
- Research articles 2004-06-30
- GOP Budget Plan May Soon Face Veto from Wisconsin Governor.
- By Steven Walters, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 20--MADISON, Wis.--The state Assembly passed a Republican-crafted state budget early Friday that cuts services, raises fees and college tuitions, and dares the governor to veto tight new spending controls on...
- Research articles 2003-06-20
- A 'public good' imperiled
- Many educators are calling this the perfect storm: an increased demand - indeed, an increased necessity - for a college education is being met by higher tuitions due to a steady decline in state financial support and an equally relentless climb in costs. In short, the now almost-mandatory requirement to...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- A pathway to success: among Ivy League institutions, Cornell is leading the way in admitting and encouraging community college transfers
- With the total price tag of a bachelor's degree from a top-tier U.S. college or university hovering around $150,000, even some of the most highly sought-after high school graduates are turning down universities like Yale and Stanford in favor of more economical options--community colleges. Skyrocketing tuitions and anti-affirmative action campaigns...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- Congress OKs bill aimed at toppling college obstacles
- A wide-ranging higher education bill designed to protect college students from aggressive lenders and rein in soaring tuitions won congressional approval Thursday. The passage marks the first time in a decade that Congress has reauthorized the main federal law overseeing higher education and the third time...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Killing off college loans - Editorial
- This is always an anxious time of year for seniors in high school who are applying to college. But this year's class has more reason to be anxious than ever: tuitions have increased, money is tight, and student aid has declined dramatically. And as details of the budget emerge, things...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- Senate Democrats Push for Tuition Tax Credit - Brief Article
- Focusing on a nearly five-fold increase in college tuitions, Senate Democrats called on Republican leaders last month to include a tuition tax credit in any budget package wrapping up this election-year session of Congress. "We should not bankrupt families for doing what is right for their children," says Sen....
- Research articles 2000-10-12
- The problems with education coupons - social and economic toll of school-voucher systems - Brief Article
- Why the CBC opposes school vouchers Like many of the African Americans who participated in a survey conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies last year, are you thinking that education vouchers might be just the remedy to the nation's ailing public school system? Well, think...
- Research articles 2001-02-01
- Who Is To Blame for the 529 Plan Mess
- Who or what is to blame for everyone's decimated  529 college plans? It's easy to finger the stock market as the fall guy for the 529 college plan debacle. I'd suggest, however, that Wall Street isn't the worst culprit.  To understand why, you have to look back...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- New 'gold-collar' young workers gain clout
- Marketers are beginning to take notice of 18- to 25-year-olds in a new working class with money to burn. About 17 million young working-class adults -- 53% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 25 -- have a high school diploma or less and are employed either full time or...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Selling Your Home in a Tight Credit Market
- Dear Ali; I was told by my agent that the government halted conventional and FHA loans on mobile homes. I own a mobile home and it was set to close at the end of August. What can the buyer do now? I have to sell the house...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Newspaper Poll Finds Pennsylvania Layoffs Spread Evenly Across State.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)
- Apr. 18--The drum beat of huge layoffs riveting the nation has been mostly a distant echo in central Pennsylvania, where the biggest employers are growing or stable and unemployment rates are among the nation's lowest. But economic dynamics at work here, as elsewhere, have shoved people...
- Research articles 1996-04-18
- $30,000 Beds Not Bunk, Journal Says
- I guess it's the men who wear the pajama pants in the family, because according a new report from the Wall Street Journal, makers of luxury beds and mattresses costing upwards of $30,000 have raised sales by targeting men. The report by Ray A. Smith (which came...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Attending College for Free Overseas
- How good is your German? If you'd like to earn a free college degree, Germany is eager to help. Tuition at German universities is routinely a freebie and remarkably Germans are happy to extend this deal to foreigners including Americans.  And it gets better than that....
- Blog posts 2009-09-26
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