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Excerpt: "'It's all smoke and mirrors in some ways, the issue of tuition and fees,' said Terry Meyers, a professor of English at the College of William and Mary. 'It seems to be one area of the academic world where no one is looking and no one wants to look too closely.'
"To best appreciate how confusing — even upside-down — the world of college costs can get, consider this: At state schools in Massachusetts, where the state board of higher education has held tuition flat for more than a decade, "mandatory fees" wind up far outstripping the price of tuition. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the flagship of the UMass system, mandatory fees are more than six times the cost of in-state tuition.
"And that isn't the end of it: Students are then hit with still more charges — the $300 'freshman counseling fee,' the $185 'undergraduate entering' fee, and several hundred dollars more if your parents or siblings attend freshman orientation. Honors college and engineering students face still more fees.
"A number of forces are driving fees upward. For public institutions, declining state support has left many schools scrambling to find other types of revenue. As well, since the notion of straightforward tuition hikes is often politically toxic, there is considerable appeal to using fees to make up shortfalls.
"But it has all required ever-greater attempts at creativity. In the last few years, a number of public colleges across the country have added fees with vaguely pleasant names — 'academic excellence and success fees,' or 'student enhancement fees,' for instance."Excerpt: "'It's all smoke and mirrors in some ways, the issue of... more
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By Andrew Jones
Saturday, April 14, 2012 17:30 EDT
If someone is looking for sympathy for their high student loans, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) would not be among those providing any support.
According to audio obtained by Think Progress, the congresswoman appeared on G. Gordon Libby show Friday afternoon, saying she “never borrowed a dime of money” during her time in college before lashing out at those burdened with heavy loans.
“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Foxx said. “We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that.”
Despite her disgust for high student loans, Foxx is somehow content with high mortgage notes. Think Progress reported that Foxx owed two individual notes up to $250,000.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/14/gop-rep-i-have-little-tolerance-for-those-with-high-student-loans/
Listen: Audio from Think Progress, which was from April 13, 2012.
"I wonder what College Tuition was back in her day, or should I say 5 or 6 decades ago???" =)By Andrew Jones
Saturday, April 14, 2012 17:30 EDT
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Twin-c Vanilla Spilla and Peter Schiff explain how government programs drive up college tuitions! Peter Schiff is an expert on the debate whether or not college is a viable route for young highschool graduates. Now immediately one would think that college is the answer, but these now because of all the government guaranteed student loans a child winds up being in debt upwards 100,000 grand when they graduate. And, it gets worse this debt can't even be wiped off in bankruptcy. So, these days make sure you can afford your education because otherwise your better off not going to school or moving out the damn country. God bless AmenTwin-c Vanilla Spilla and Peter Schiff explain how government programs drive up... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, March 5, 2012 14:16 EST
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday told a high school senior not to expect any help from the government for college tuition unless he joined the military.
At a town hall-style campaign event in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, a student who was hoping to go to college next year asked the candidate what assistance he would provide “with regards to college tuition.”
“Recognize that college is expensive,” Romney explained. “You don’t want to have huge debts. I know that it would be popular for me to stand up and say I’m going to give you government money to make sure you pay for your college. But I’m not going to promise that. What I’m going to tell you is shop around, get a good price.”
“I feel that if you are willing to serve your country in the military for instance, that’s a place where we’re going to say, ‘Yeah, we’ll give you help,’” the candidate added.
“Don’t take on too much debt, and don’t expect the government to forgive the debt that you take on. Recognize that you’re going to have to pay it back. I want to make sure that every kid in this country that wants to go to college gets a chance to go to college.”
In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Barack Obama outlined his own plan to make college more affordable by restraining tuition growth, keeping interest rates for college loans low, doubling the number of work-study jobs and creating a permanent a tax credit of $10,000 over four years of school.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/05/romney-on-student-debt-join-the-military/
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast March. 5, 2012.
"Sounds Reasonable, if you want to feed your Family, join the Military, want to get an education??? Join the Military!!! Folks are being pushed from the actions of his party to have no other Choice, I really can't stand the GOP!!!!"By David Edwards
Monday, March 5, 2012 14:16 EST
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By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday suggested that President Barack Obama wanted to every kid to go to college so they could be brainwashed into being a liberal.
Speaking to a crowd of Floridians at the First Baptist Church of Naples, Santorum said that churches and families were under “assault” by the president and liberals.
“We’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” the candidate explained. “We’ve lost our higher education. That was the first to go a long time ago. It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college. The indoctrination that occurs at American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America — and it is indoctrination.”
“If they taught Judeo-Christian ideology, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly get. As you know, 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it. And I bet you there are people in this room who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids in left-wing ideology. And you continue to give to these colleges and universities. Let me have a suggestion: Stop it!”
Santorum added: “What they say is, look, their values trump your religious values. The government can tell you they’re going to starve you by taking money away, by taking out the charitable deductions. They’re going to weaken you by passing statutes to change the institution of marriage, which will ultimately make what is preached here hate speech and bigotry.”
Last month, the former Pennsylvania senator warned voters in Iowa that colleges and universities had become “indoctrination centers for the left.”
For his part, President Barack Obama spoke about the importance of college affordability during his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday.
“We can’t just keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition; we’ll run out of money,” he said. “So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=380324
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 25, 2012.
"Hate speech and Bigotry??? He is talking about his own Damned Party!!!!"By David Edwards
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 14:51 EST
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This is made for the people! Please share... the music was composed by my son years ago and when I heard it... it broke my heart to know that at 23 he was feeling the depth of a ticking time bomb... his world as he knew it then was certain to fail. He used the sound sample from the movie Network and electonically altered the message... I found myself glued to the images on the internet and was compelled to make this video. Power to the people! Connie M. JohnsonThis is made for the people! Please share... the music was composed by my son years... more
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The medical school's research building at UC-Riverside is almost finished, but it will not be seeing any students this year.
By JENNIFER MEDINA
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The doors to the state’s newest medical school are already open, technically. A gleaming building with new labs is ready to house researchers and students. But when the state budget was approved last week, the plans to open the medical school at the University of California’s campus here were shelved for at least another year.
Timothy P. White, the chancellor of UC-Riverside, is determined to buttonhole legislators to get the medical school going.
The compromise to close the state’s huge budget gap included cuts to state agencies of all kinds, but none were as deep as those to the state’s public colleges and universities. The state’s two systems were each cut by $650 million, and they each could lose $100 million more if the state’s optimistic revenue expectations do not materialize. For both systems, the $650 million is roughly a 20 percent cut of operating money from the state.
This fall, for the first time, the University of California will take in more money from student tuition than from state finances.
The state’s two-tier system has long been seen as a model of public higher education, with the University of California’s 10 campuses as major research hubs and the California State University’s network of 23 campuses graduating tens of thousands each year. But the cuts, which are the biggest in the state’s history, threaten to erode the system’s stellar reputation.
“There’s no question that California has had the most emulated public universities in the nation, and for the rest of the world,” said Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education. “What we are seeing is the abandonment of the state’s commitment to make California’s education available to all its citizens.”
Tuition is expected to rise roughly 20 percent next year, just the latest in series of steep increases. Yearly in-state tuition at California State University will average about $5,500, while at the University of California, it is expected to be $13,200 if the increases are approved this month. Programs all over the state are being shuttered, star professors are leaving for colleges in other states, faculty positions are being left unfilled and class sizes are continuing to grow. While the state’s spending on the system is down to a level not seen since the late-1990s, the campuses enroll tens of thousands more students.
Schools, meanwhile, are stepping up their efforts to recruit students from other states, using their higher tuition payments to help fill the coffers at the expense of California applicants. (doing this to our education system has no benefit , In fact, the long term effects are a worse economy and less innovation . Institutions sometimes run at a loss because of the value of the services they provide ,when will we learn? Not in Cali i suppose , not anymore at least...)-figg more story at linkThe medical school's research building at UC-Riverside is almost finished, but it... more
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Two sets of information were presented to me in the last 24 hours that have dramatically reinforced my feeling that diminishing returns have set in to investments in higher education, with increasing evidence suggesting that we are in one respect “overinvesting” in the field. First, following up on information provided by former student Douglas Himes at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), my sidekick Chris Matgouranis showed me the table reproduced below (And for more see this).Two sets of information were presented to me in the last 24 hours that have... more
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Yesterday, I attended the public hearing at Pittsburgh City Council chambers. I was there to speak for increasing the Community Development Block Grant funding for Just Harvest and the Pittsburgh Hunger Fund. I stayed to observe the testimony and discussion on Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s illegal college tuition tax proposal.
I was very pleased to see so many college students speaking so eloquently on the topic. I just wish that more students would be involved on social, political, and economic justice issues. Once again, if you want peace, work for justice. The performance of the council members was disappointing and somewhat puzzling.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-14931-Pittsburgh-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m12d1-City-council-upholds-its-tradition-to-disappoint-usYesterday, I attended the public hearing at Pittsburgh City Council chambers. I was... more
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In recent days, students have been rallying and barricading themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent hike in tuition fees. Last Wednesday and Thursday, scuffles broke out between police and student protesters on UC campuses around the state, with dozens of students arrested and a few roughed up by eager cops.
Link: http://www.truthdig.com/repor/item/age_trumps_youth_in_uc_tuition_dispute_20091124/In recent days, students have been rallying and barricading themselves inside... more
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If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents, shackled with student loans -- between $20,000 and $80,000 --, and you're scare because you can't find a job in the poor economic climate.
Cheer up. It could be worse.
If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents, shackled with student loans -- between $20,000 and $80,000 --, and you're not worried because you're banking on all of it to just go away. Run!
Fly away and disappear, because your student loans won't.
Mark Jesperson has $350,000 in student loans, and he must pay it all back.
The Eighth US Circuity Court of Appeals has ruled that he will have to pay back every cent.
Student loans are incredibly difficult to discharge, even if you're debt load is "shockingly immense". This is because a borrower must show "undue hardship", a higher burden than required to successfully declare bankruptcy for most consumer debt.
"The system's set up as such that most people -- people like myself -- cannot complete a professional degree without the help of student loans," said Mark Jesperson. "There's no starting over me....this is it."If you are one of the nation's college graduates living with your parents,... more
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Most high school seniors and their families have not made final college plans for next fall. But they know this: It's probably going to cost more than they had planned.
Even in good economic times, states and colleges have largely failed to hold tuition increases in line with inflation. Now as the slumping economy forces states to slash spending, students can expect the sharpest increases in years.
Families are calling on colleges to absorb as much of the burden as possible instead of passing the extra costs on to students.
"In my business, my customers are asking me for price concessions," said John Schock of Raleigh, N.C., who works in sales for a company in the automotive industry and whose son is looking at colleges. He said colleges "have an obligation as well."Most high school seniors and their families have not made final college plans for next... more
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A new law school opening next fall in Southern California is offering a big incentive to top students who might be thinking twice about the cost of a legal education during the recession: free tuition for three years.
Read and discuss...A new law school opening next fall in Southern California is offering a big incentive... more
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Zach Hall is a government major at the University of Texas, but in his senior year, he is also learning about finance -- the hard way.
I am looking at graduating with $27,000, almost $30,000, in student debt, and my parents make $90,000 a year," Hall said. "To me, that is unbelievable, and I blame that, in part, on the tuition increases."
According to a new report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, college tuition and fees have increased 439 percent since 1982, almost three times higher than the increase in family incomes.
The biennial report found that even after financial aid, a four-year public college cost 28 percent of the median family's income last year; a four-year private school cost a staggering 76 percent.
"If we continue the trend ... we would be looking at a system of higher education that is just not affordable for the middle class," said Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.Zach Hall is a government major at the University of Texas, but in his senior year, he... more
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As a witness to the impending debt of higher education this comes as no surprise to me. The question is - what is the Nation going to do about it? How can continuing your education be more affordable? How do we move away from College Education as "service industry?" Perhaps we should take a look at the European system where students choose a focus of study early on and must pass a series of exams to continue to higher education, as opposed to the American system that is often criticized as hosting the token "party school" mentality and College as "babysitter" for those who aren't quite ready to go out into the "real world."
Thoughts on this from Graduates and those in school and looking at attending school?
From the article:
The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the biennial report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, while median family income rose 147 percent. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade, and students from lower-income families, on average, get smaller grants from the colleges they attend than students from more affluent families.
“If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won’t have an affordable system of higher education,” said Patrick M. Callan, president of the center, a nonpartisan organization that promotes access to higher education.
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“When the economy is good, and state universities are somewhat better funded, we raise tuition as little as possible,” he said. “When the economy is bad, we raise tuition and sock it to families, when people can least afford it. That’s exactly the opposite of what we need.”
More at link. . .As a witness to the impending debt of higher education this comes as no surprise to... more
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The site is akin to Facebook in that it lets students create a profile and send out invitations asking for sponsors to pledge whatever they please for each A — $1, $2 or more. Sponsors can also donate by subject area, giving money to students who ace, say, organic chemistry or film studies. For example, ZooToo.com, a website for pet enthusiasts, is GradeFund's first corporate sponsor, pledging $15 to the first 100 students each semester who earn an A in veterinary medicine.
When a student reaches $100 in donations, GradeFund mails them a check. (Students can withdraw the money before they reach the $100 mark for a $5 fee.) Kopko will be adding features to bring in revenue — including a job search engine that will let employers search for a computer science major who aced Spanish or any other equally specific set of skills.
Seen link for more information...
Do you think this will be a bust or a boom with students?The site is akin to Facebook in that it lets students create a profile and send out... more
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Vanguard producer Lauren Cerre zigzags from Los Angeles to New York on bus, stopping to talk to young Americans about national issues affecting them in the lead up to the election.Vanguard producer Lauren Cerre zigzags from Los Angeles to New York on bus, stopping... more
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Famed radio host Howard Stern is set to shock audiences once again - when he helps auction off a 22-year-old girl's virginity on Tuesday (09Sep08).
The San Diego, California woman approached Stern to appear on his Sirius radio show in a desperate bid to pay off her college tuition.
Using the pseudonym of Natalie Dylan, she tells the New York Daily News, "I don't have a moral dilemma with it... We live in a capitalist society. Why shouldn't I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?
"I understand some people may condemn me. But I think this is empowering. I'm using what I have to better myself."
But Dylan insists her rising bills won't mean giving it up to the highest bidder. She says: "I want someone with chemistry. We'll take bids until I find a suitor I'm happy with."
The auction will be conducted online on adult website Bunnyranch.com. Famed radio host Howard Stern is set to shock audiences once again - when he helps... more
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