The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring the Department of Education to publish a list of America’s most expensive colleges. In addition, the same bill increases the maximum size of the popular Pell grant from $5800 to $9000 per year. Another interesting provision limits Federal grants to states that significantly cut back [...]
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This shoe was going to drop, so it’s good that the time has come. Bloomberg reports that Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) have sent letters to 134 schools asking for data on tuition prices, financial aid and educational costs. This comprehensive article provides an excellent summary of the issues as outlined in [...]
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Of the ten universities posting a significant amount of educational material on YouTube, none is among the Top Tier (as narrowly defined by us), but there are some excellent schools on the list, including UC Berkeley, Duke, MIT, Vanderbilt and Purdue. Princeton does contribute to UChannel which focuses on international and political affairs. One could [...]
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It probably comes as no surprise to anyone, but Stanford faculty favor Democratic presidential candidates with their financial contributions. What’s interesting is that the same campus provides a home to the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank that recently brought former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld onto their faculty as a visiting fellow. Suffice it [...]
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It looks like the state of “Live Free or Die” is looking to get involved (again) into private college board politics. According to the following report, a legislative committee in New Hampshire is considering an attempt to reassert the state government’s ultimate control over changes to Dartmouth College’s charter, control the state relinquished in 2003. [...]
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Originally from the Ohio State student paper, here’s a piece calling for Federal action to limit tuition increases for all college students nationally. The last decade has seen a significant shift in emphasis in the financing of college educations from grants to loans. This has impacted the ability of some students to attend college, especially [...]
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Piyush Bobby Jindal, a Brown honors grad and Rhodes Scholar, was elected to the governorship of Louisiana yesterday. Mr. Jindal, 36, lost a previous bid for the office in 2003, and will become Louisiana’s first non-white chief executive since Reconstruction. Because he received more than half of the vote, there will be no run-off election.
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Both in Iowa and New Hampshire, young voters on college campuses played a key role in the recent primary activites. Not only do college students volunteer on behalf of their candidates, they also turn out in force on election day itself. Many of us can recall the time that the voting age was still 21, [...]
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As someone has noted, if Hillary Clinton were to become the next president and serve for 8 years, there would be a period in US history when, for 28 years, the president will have been named either Bush or Clinton. While that’s a scary enough prospect, they also point out
In fact, of the last [...]
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There is a report at Cybercast News Service that a group of Columbia University faculty intend to visit Iran in order to apologize to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the reception he received at Columbia in September, 2007. At the time, Columbia president Lee Bollinger referred to the Iranian president as being a “petty and cruel [...]
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