The White House is having a competition to give out awards to educators to promote its race to the top program. Maybe they should open it up to College financial aid offices and development officers.
Just a few miles from the U. S. Capitol, where Congress recently voted to increase student aid, George Washington University [1] is staging the annual ballet performed by college administrators as they orchestrate their tuition hikes that coincide remarkably with the federal/taxpayer-funded largesse. The late Christopher T. Warden, himself a veteran journalist and educator and the author of Accuracy in Academia’s first textbook, Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying, would, and did, predict as much.
- Congress passed a big increase in student aid in March.
- President Obama signed it that same month.
- Also in March, the board of trustees at GWU approved an increase in grad school tuition.
- In April, a university official advised increasing the school’s student aid package.
- Care to guess what happens next?
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia [2].