Small, private colleges and universities have turned to slashing tuition prices in order to convince potential applicants to apply and eventually attend. The Washington Post reported that several private colleges and universities cut their tuition…
Topic: college tuition
Data shows college enrollment continues to fall
Even though the coronavirus pandemic is winding down, it does not mean that students will be rushing back to attend colleges and universities across the United States in the near future. According to recently-released data…
Colleges’ resistance to discounting tuition exposes lack of innovation, flexibility
The likes of Harvard University and other expensive higher education institutions announced that they will charge full tuition to students, even though several institutions have shifted from in-person classes to online learning for the foreseeable…
Quinnipiac Poll: 52% Oppose Free College at Public Universities
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…
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…