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Colorado Governor Proposes New Scholarship Program Colorado ranks close to the bottom in higher education spending, with large spending cuts and tuition increases over the past five years. Last Thursday Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced a ballot initiative to create the Colorado Promise Scholarship Fund by eliminating tax credits for oil and gas drilling in the state. |
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Thousands of Students Rally Against Fee Hikes in California Because of steep budget cuts in the California state budget, students in California face possible large tuition increases next year. Thousands of students- estimates range from one to three thousand - gathered in Sacramento to protest the cuts and lobby their legislators. |
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The University of California System released admissions data this week, announcing a record breaking 60,000 admissions of California students to begin classes next fall at the systems’ 10 campuses. While overall admissions were up, the acceptance rate was down due to a demographic surge of college age Californians. |
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Publishers Bite Back on Course Packs Three textbooks publishers, backed by the Association of American Publishers, are suing Georgia State over its use of digital course packets. The lawsuit claims that the university is distributing copyrighted material to students without permission or paying licensing fess. |
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1000 Professors for Open Textbooks The Affordable Textbooks Campaign, a project of the Student PIRGs, Arizona Students Association, California State Student Association, and student governments across the country, announced on Tuesday that over 1,000 professors have signed a statement of intent to use “open textbooks”- free, online and open source textbooks. |
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Graduate Students Confront University About Health Insurance Graduate students recently gathered to meet with Florida State University's President T.K. Wetherell to discuss the lack of health insurance provided for them through the school. |
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House Passes Financial Aid “Security” Bill The House Education and Workforce committee passed a bill this week to guard the student lending market from possible future downturns. The bill would authorize the Education Department to buy student loans, in the event that a lender can no longer back its loans. |
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No Child Left to Go to College The New York Times investigated federal reporting requirements under the No Child Left Behind law and found some troubling results: many states use inflated numbers when reporting their graduation rates to the federal government. |
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Community Colleges Growing Faster Than Privates According to the Institute for College Access and Success, enrollment at community colleges has increased relative to four-year universities over the past few years and, an increasing number of community college students are applying for federal aid. |
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has reported that in 2007 Congress allocated a record amount of money for research – $2.3 billion. The report was alarming to many in higher education because earmarks do not undergo the normal peer review required to receive research funding. |
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Student Organization Educates Peers about Finance In response to recent spikes in tuition and textbook costs, and in the face of temptation from credit card companies, students at Florida State have started a new student group: Students Advocating Financial Education (SAFE). |
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Harvard Law Waives Tuition for Do-Gooders Harvard Law School plans to waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working either for nonprofit organizations or the government, a program that would save students more than $40,000. |
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Like many other campuses, students inspired and put up the cash for UNC's effort to go green - through a renewable energy fee. |
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Weak Dollar for Students Overseas George Washington University’s Hatchet interviews students studying abroad who are feeling the effects of a weak U.S dollar, in some cases paying double their money’s worth to meet exchange rates. |
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More and more colleges and universities across the country are making deals with banks to open up student debit accounts – and profiting! |
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Students’ Intuitions Sense Tuition Trouble Boston University’s Daily Free Press investigates student concerns in response to President Robert Brown's recent announcement that tuition, housing, board, and student fee rates will rise significantly for the 2008-09 academic year. |
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Textbooks Turn to the Internet Two Stanford University student government senators have been working to upload reading materials onto the internet so their fellow students can access them through the university at a reduced cost. |
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Students Lobby for Higher Education Funding The Associated Students of Colorado brought student government leaders from across Colorado to the statehouse on last week to support Governor Bill Ritter's proposal to increase funding for higher education by eight percent. |
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NJ Budget Cuts Bring Democrats, Republicans Together New Jersey Democratic Governor Jon S. Corzine recently issued a proposal to address New Jersey's fiscal crisis. |
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The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts, an umbrella organization for student and faculty advocacy groups, held their annual lobby day to voice student concerns about rising tuition, textbook prices, and lack of state support for higher education costs. |
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Last week over 200 students gathered at the capitol building in Frankfort Kentucky to rally for Higher Education. |
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Colorado Students Rally for Affordable Textbooks On the same day that congress was passing textbook reforms as part of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, students in Colorado rallied for similar legislation on the state level. |
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College Opportunity and Affordability Act On Feb. 7, the House of Representatives passed the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, reauthorizing the Higher Education Act of 1965. |
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Budget Beatdown – The Student Loan Saga Continues In the wake of the sub-prime lending market crash, troubled credit markets have been brought to student doors. |
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Students Win Scholarship Reinstatements Last week more than 300 students at Universidad de Las Americas rallied for days in protest the cancellation of 571 need-based scholarships, cancelled as part of the university’s scholarship program restructuring process. |
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Pricey Textbooks Spark Alternative Efforts The New York Public Interest Group’s (NYPIRG) Syracuse chapter held an on-campus event surveying students on the cost of their textbooks. |
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Arizona Board Establishes Student Tuition Taskforce In response to growing student concerns about increased state tuition the Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body for Arizona's public universities, unanimously voted on Friday to establish a task force on tuition. |
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Online Textbooks Cheaper But Not Yet Popular In the ongoing effort to make textbooks more affordable, online books have emerged over the last decade to serve as cheaper alternatives to pricey printed materials. |
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Senate Bill Would Require Universities to Spend Endowment to Lower Tuition Costs The U.S Senate is considering a bill that would require universities to spend at least 5 percent of their endowments each year. |
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Universities with Smaller Endowments Struggle to Compete with New Financial Aid Reform The University of Pennsylvania and Rice University newspapers explore how schools with smaller endowments are at a loss to compete with bigger universities’ new financial aid reform policies. |
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Arizona Passes Proposition Hindering Students’ Ability to Receive State Financial Aid Proposition 300, passed by more than 70 percent of Arizona voters in November 2006, restricts any student who cannot provide proof of legal status in the U.S. from receiving state funded financial aid. |
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College Students Suffer From Lack of Full-Time Faculty A recent New York report asserts that college students are being negatively affected taking too many classes from part-time, or adjunct, professors. |
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ARIZONA GOVERNOR PROPOSES PREDICTABLE TUITION In her State of the State address, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano included a proposal to keep tuition rates locked in at one rate over a student’s four years at an Arizona University. |
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STATE BUDGETS IMPACT UNIVERSITY RESOURCES January brings the start of state legislative sessions and Governors are submitting budgets – many of which have bad news for universities and students. |
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FINANCIAL AID REFORM TARGETS MIDDLE CLASS This fall a number of high-profile private universities announced financial aid reforms that will reduce costs of education for middle and lower income families. |
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STUDENT LOAN COMPANY MISLEADS STUDENTS In the continuing fallout from last spring’s student loan scandal, Student Financial Services (SFS), a Florida-based loan company, settled a lawsuit brought against them for paying 63 university athletic departments for the use of their school logos, mascots, and clothing in order to make students believe that they had university affiliation. |
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The UCLA Daily Bruin highlights a provision in the United States House version of the College Cost Reduction Act that will require publishers to fully disclose textbook prices to faculty. |
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As the Arizona Board of Regents prepares to consider a fifteen percent tuition increase, students across Arizona are pushing for a tuition freeze |
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Tufts to aid alums with student debt Tufts University is launching a new program offering recent graduates entering non-profits and government careers with financial support in paying back student loans. |
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Tuition increases across country The College Board released a report last week documenting tuition increases across the country. Many campus papers took the opportunity to examine tuition rates and increases at their campus, how they compare to the national average and what impact tuition increases have on students. |
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Students in California are making a final push asking Governor Schwarzenegger to pass the California Dream Act, allowing undocumented students who graduated from California High School access to state financial aid programs. |
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Rising fees replacing state funding The UMass Boston Mass Media explores how student fees are acting like “back door tuition.” |
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Missouri Loan Authority questioned over spending The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority is coming under heavy scrutiny after an audit showing “excessive” spending on expenses such as $2,741 in drink tickets for a holiday party. |
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Students in Massachusetts testified in support of a bill to lower textbook costs at a Joint Committee on Higher Education meeting. |
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Steps on loan transparency in California In the wake of the spring student lending scandals, the University of California is working to make its dealings with private lenders transparent |
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How does student debt affect career choices? The UCLA Daily Bruin profiles how graduates from UCLA are affected by student loan debt. |
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A UMASS Amherst article adds a new wrinkle to the ongoing problems with textbook prices: textbook theft. |
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Students rally for higher education in Michigan Facing a possible mid-year tuition hike due to state funding difficulties, three hundred students from across Michigan rallied on statehouse steps supporting higher education funding. |
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Students from the City University of New York are squaring off against their Chancellor and his proposed tuition hikes |
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Students organize to lower textbook costs Another semester, another large bill for textbooks. Students across the country are pushing for ways to keep costs down, from getting the state of Georgia to exempt textbooks from sales tax to organizing book-swaps at Rutgers to gathering support for a bill that would require publishers to “un-bundle” books in Colorado. |
