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Americans Place High Value On College Education, Survey Finds

Americans Place High Value On College Education, Survey FindsWASHINGTONAmericans believe the nation’s colleges and universities provide a high-quality education and serve as an economic engine for their home states, according to findings of a national survey released today by the American Council on Education (ACE). However, the public believes future state budget cuts could threaten […]

February 27, 2002

Undocumented Immigrants to Get Tuition Break

Undocumented Immigrants to Get Tuition BreakLOS ANGELES Undocumented immigrants will get a break on tuition at the University of California under a plan approved late last month allowing many of them to pay the amount charged to in-state residents. Under the plan, students who graduated from a California high school after three years of attendance […]

February 13, 2002

Bill Reduces Colleges’ HOPE Scholarship Requirements

Bill Reduces Colleges’ HOPE Scholarship RequirementsColleges with a large number of low-income students are getting a break from the federal government — a reduction in costly paperwork requirements that had threatened to put a strain on postsecondary education budgets.The Senate late last month joined the House of Representatives in approving legislation that would simplify colleges’ […]

January 30, 2002

Florida Scholarship Program at Center Of Racial Bias Probe

Florida Scholarship Program at Center Of Racial Bias ProbeCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Civil rights and education advocacy groups from Florida and around the nation are calling on state leaders to address “racial bias” in the formula used to award Bright Futures scholarships.A letter delivered last month to top state officials charges that “rigid test score cut-offs” on the […]

January 16, 2002

Legislation Offers D.C. Students Incentive to Attend HBCUs

Legislation Offers D.C. Students Incentive to Attend HBCUs A Senate committee has approved legislation that would provide more tuition benefits for District of Columbia residents, particularly if they choose to attend historically Black colleges.Legislation from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would make several major changes in the D.C. College Access Act, a 1999 law allowing […]

December 19, 2001

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to Students

College Costs Increase, but Record Amount of Financial Aid Available to StudentsThe College Board in two recent studies reported that college tuition and fees in 2001-2002 had increased an average of between 5.5 and 7.7 percent at four-year institutions, and between 5.5 and 5.8 percent at two-year institutions, while a record of more than $74 […]

November 7, 2001

D.C. Tuition Program May Lose Funds

D.C. Tuition Program May Lose FundsThe new federal program to help District of Columbia students qualify for lower college tuition may be a casualty, at least temporarily, of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.The House of Representatives wants to withhold half of the program’s $17 million budget for 2002 until the city […]

October 24, 2001

Faculty & Staff

What’s Happening to the PUBLIC in Public Education?

What’s Happening to the PUBLIC in Public Education?Students feel the effects of tuition hikes as legislative tax-cutting sprees send the nation’s public colleges and universities jockeying for funding. By Page Boinest MeltonForget unemployment, income and housing starts as leading economic indicators. America’s public colleges and universities — among the first to feel the effects of […]

August 29, 2001

Higher Education Suffers as Tennesseans Say ‘No’ to New Taxes

Higher Education Suffers as Tennesseans Say ‘No’ to New TaxesBy David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.For the last three years, Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist has been in intense bouts with the state Legislature over his plan of increasing taxes as a way to better fund Tennessee’s 24 public colleges and universities. And each year, the Republican governor has […]

August 29, 2001

District of Columbia High School Graduates

District of Columbia High School Graduates Gain More Tuition BenefitsDistrict of Columbia high school graduates stand to gain more college tuition benefits under legislation that the U.S. House of Representatives approved just before its August recess.The House overwhelmingly approved a bill from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., to expand the two-year-old D.C. College Access Act, […]

August 29, 2001

Letters

Dear Editor:I’m in the Air Force, and subsequently have been overseas a couple of times. Because I did not join the Air Force with the agenda of “seeing the world” but to receive tuition assistance for school instead, when I was sent abroad, I was kicking and digging my nails in the streets (figuratively speaking) […]

August 29, 2001

South Carolina Colleges’ Tuition Increase Complicates Lottery Scholarships

South Carolina Colleges’ Tuition Increase Complicates Lottery ScholarshipsCOLUMBIA, S.C.College tuition increases caused by a budget crunch could make it more difficult to decide how to spend lottery profits. With tuition at Clemson University scheduled to go up 42 percent, a broad disparity will be created between LIFE scholarships at Clemson compared with other public four-year […]

July 18, 2001

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