There’s nothing terribly new in the source article for this note, but it’s a worthy review of the state of play in Washington regarding the endowment payment controversy that is now impacting elite colleges and universities. Certainly, pressure from the Senate has had a significant role in increasing the flow of funds from the largest [...]
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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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The Top Tier universities caught a break in the tuition sweepstakes in the recent listing of of the world’s most expensive colleges and universities. Tops on the list is George Washington University, followed Kenyon, Bucknell, Vassar, and Sarah Lawrence.
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Get more information from… The World’s Most Expensive Universities – Forbes.com
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Have a look at this insightful article in the University of Michigan student paper. People sometimes have a problem distinguishing how much a college education costs to deliver versus how much students pay for it. In general the costs significantly exceed the price paid, although the magnitude of the difference and the source of that [...]
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Well, that headline isn’t exactly accurate. What Stanford’s registrar is trying to deal with is a shortage of faculty and students willing to meet in class outside of the most popular mid-day and mid-week times. As noted, this culture seems to have gotten worse over the last decade or so. Unless we find a way [...]
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This web site has been actively exploring the consequences of the recent spate of announcements made by prestigious Top Tier schools to expand the range of families eligible for financial aid. Certainly those institutions have been feeling pressure from Washington to do something NOW to benefit their students using the huge endowments that they have [...]
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Princeton’s trustees voted to increase its tuition by 3.9%, along with a large increase in its financial aid budget to ensure maintenance of diversity in its incoming class. Over 50% of the current freshman class receives financial aid, with the average grant being more than $31,000. Including room and board, the list price for the [...]
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