The Student Loan Debate
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.
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.
Sally Mason | Posted 05.02.2012
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.
Phil Ting | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
By Alexandra Churchill We all know how expensive college can be, but according to this report by The Huffington Post, the benefits of having a coll...
Posted 03.29.2012
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced last week that student loan debts have surpassed the $1 trillion mark, leaving the majority of 201...
Student Activism | Posted 03.03.2012
Fourteen DePaul University students have staged a campus occupation against the university's tuition policy -- the first occupation at a US Catholic u...
David Boone | Posted 04.24.2012
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.
From “big (wo)man on campus” to the campus “fresh meat,” the transition to college can be difficult. Adjusting to a new town with new friends ...
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...
Brian Peterson | Posted 03.20.2012
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.
Posted 01.12.2012
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. ...
Posted 01.07.2012
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 ...
Noah Baron | Posted 08.13.2011
If a college degree is to indicate anything other than socio-economic status, then American public higher education must remain fully funded.
Selma Mustovic | Posted 07.10.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.01.2011
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...
David J. Skorton | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
walletpop.com | Jennifer B. Larson | Posted 05.25.2011
Payscale.com has a list of well-paying jobs you can skip college for, based on statistics based on compiled by and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but...
Posted 05.25.2011
College may actually be comparatively cheaper now than before the recession, the Washington Post reports. According to a new survey by the National A...
Christie Garton | Posted 05.25.2011
In the past, we've taken a college degree for granted. Now, fiscal "responsibility" may ultimately force hundreds and thousands of students to put off college in the interim, or ultimately drop out altogether.
Maura Kastberg | Posted 05.16.2012