In a newly released Quinnipiac University National Poll 45% supported offering free college while 52% opposed it. The percentages varied only slightly when people were asked about free college funded by a new tax on…
Topic: college tuition
Increase in College Tuition Benefits for Gold Star Families Denied by New York State Legislators
College tuition benefits were included in the New York state budget, but not an increase in tuition benefits for Gold Star families.
Federal Aid Drives College Tuition Up
The evidence keeps mounting that it does and so does the federal aid.
Out Of State But Not Of Pocket
Out of state students not only add to the diversity of universities: They cross-subsidize in-state students.
California Attorney General says No to Investigating California University’s Secret Fund
California attorney general declined to investigate the University of California system and its president, former Obama official Janet Napolitano, for a secret fund kept from the public and it is worth $175 million.
DePaul to Vote on Scholarships for Illegal Immigrant Students
Higher student fees could be leveraged to fund scholarship for illegal immigrant students.
Poor Graduation Rates are the Root Problem for Higher Education
The deputy chancellor and professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Robert Feldman, did not leave much to the imagination of what the root problem of higher education is today: poor and…
Minnesota could have Tuition-Free College for Families Earning less than $125,000/year
From The College Fix: A Minnesota lawmaker wants to make sure that financial uncertainty is never the reason a student drops out. Minnesota Daily reports that Sen. Ron Latz of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state’s version of…
Thomas Aquinas College Froze Tuition for Fifth Straight Year
From Thomas Aquinas College’s press release: THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE FREEZES TUITION FOR FIFTH YEAR Board of Governors offers relief to current and prospective students SANTA PAULA, CA—Dec 7—Thomas Aquinas College’s Board of Governors recently voted…
Some Educators Doubt the Reality of Hillary Clinton’s College Plan
This is an interesting article by the New York Times: Pushed to the left by Mr. Sanders’s promises of free college for all, Mrs. Clinton expanded on that plan in July with a proposal that,…
Book Review
Book Review: America, Guns, and Freedom
As gun rights and gun control advocates, political surrogates, spokespeople, and groups contend over the future of the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Dr. Miguel Faria, Jr., M.D. published a book that gives extensive background,…
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