Dean Dan Rodriguez has written a letter to his students at Northwestern University Law School to announce a class size reduction, a tuition increase, and a commitment to increase scholarships and to cover LRAP costs.
As tuition of private educational institutions have outpaced inflation and the cost of living, one of the most encouraging developments is the emphasis placed on controlling the costs of education, often in novel ways overlooked in the past.
A 2010 study by University of Arkansas education professor Jay Greene found that spending on administration has been outpacing funds for instruction a...
In a move called "innovative" by one higher-education official, the University of Toledo not only announced a freeze in academic and living costs but ...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s 2012 Education at a Glance report has found that while the U.S. boasts high education at...
There is no better way to alienate a massive swath of American citizenry than to cut funding for loans and grants to students seeking to enroll in higher education and in need of economic support to do so.
I still don't pay attention to party controversy. I will hopefully one day understand the ins-and-outs of health care and taxation, but at the moment I will admit, I am clueless.
With college debt soaring over a trillion dollars, parents and students are up in arms. It's no wonder why California students have started demonstrating and the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken up the banner too.
As our country faces the economic, social, cultural, and global challenges of the 21st century, the way to keep the American dream within our grasp is to provide more, not less, access to higher education.
It actually happened. It's now more expensive for a middle-class family to send a child to one of our California state universities than it is to send their son or daughter to Harvard.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced last week that student loan debts have surpassed the $1 trillion mark, leaving the majority of 201...
Fourteen DePaul University students have staged a campus occupation against the university's tuition policy -- the first occupation at a US Catholic u...
I am beginning to realize that the majority of my schools cost $200,000 or more to attend. YIKES! There is no way, shy of a miracle, my family can afford such an education.
Two teen participants in the Junior States of America (JSA), a student-run political organization for high school students, sounded off on Obama's Sta...
The arrest of seven young men at an Occupy FIU event on Thursday is the worst violation of freedom of speech in the 39 years that I have been teaching at FIU.
The state of Michigan could one day pay for its students' college educations. Sound like fantasy? Not if a group of state legislators have their way. ...
We all know it's a tough time to be a teen or young adult in America right now. The youth unemployment rate is at its highest since World War II, and ...
Gov. Cuomo will convene a summit later this month to consider a proposal by SUNY at Buffalo to give the university greater autonomy. This is an important proposal that deserves support.
WASHINGTON -- Pell Grants are the nation's largest financial aid program, providing low-income students with grants to help pay for the rising cost of...
The recession we are experiencing is not a normal, cyclical "blip" -- it is unlike anything that most of us have ever experienced. Consequently, we in higher education have to make some fundamental changes in the way we do business.
It is no longer possible to justify a generation of double digit education inflation -- it can be avoided and dampens returns on education to society and individuals.