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Showing posts with label College costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College costs. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Federal Reserve says student-loan delinquencies will go up if Biden's loan forgiveness plan is scrapped

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 Last August, President Biden announced his plan to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 in student debt to individuals who make less than $1...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Private Colleges Behave Like Car Salesmen and They Deserve the Same Level of Respect

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When I was young, car buying was a very stressful experience. In the old days, car buyers were always at a disadvantage. They didn't act...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Things Universities Don't Want to Talk About: It's Time for a Freedom of Information Act for American Colleges That Participate in the Federal Student Loan Program

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LSU President King Alexander recently told a Rotary Club audience that the cost of attending Louisiana State University is very reasonable. ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Only suckers pay the sticker price. The College Board says college costs at private colleges went down over the past 10 years. Really?

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I think the hand-wringing about the trend [in college costs] is greatly exaggerated.                                                   ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Why President Obama's Proposal for Controlling College Costs is a Nonstarter

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In politics as in life, there are problem solvers and there are problem managers. President Obama is a problem manager.  Before he was ele...
Sunday, February 3, 2013

For whom the bell tolls: Law schools are in touble and so is the rest of higher education

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Last week, the  New York Times carried a front-page story on the decline in law school applications. In 2004, there were 100,000 applicant...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The New American Serfs: Student-Loan Debtors in the Federal Income Contingent Repayment Plan

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Slavery in the United States ended with the Civil War, but slavery in another form lived on.  Slavery was replaced by a new kind of bondag...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Pepper Spray Incidents at UC Davis and Santa Monica College: Universities Need to Listen to Students' Concerns about the Rising Cost of a College Education

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Earlier this month, campus police at Santa Monica College pepper-sprayed more than two dozen students who were trying to enter a Trustees m...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Universities Should Cap Tuition and Fees Until National Unemployment Rate Goes Down

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In an article that appeared this week in Chronicle of Higher Education , Gary Fethke argued that college tuition is going up because taxpa...