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Tuition shouldn't rise faster than inflation
SunHerald.com
Here are some distressing figures for people paying for a college education at one of Mississippi's public universities: Inflation has increased by 28 percent over the last decade. But the average full-time tuition at Mississippi's universities is up ...
Thomas Friedman: Come to the higher-education revolution
Kansas.com
By Thomas L. Friedman Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he co-founded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher ...
The high-tech revolution comes to higher educationTheNewsTribune.com
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New Yorker (blog)
The Cost of College
New Yorker (blog)
What kind of society will be created by the ever-rising cost of a college education in the US? In Comment this week, Nicholas Lemann looks at the conversation taking place during the Presidential election about tuition and loans, and considers the ...
Victoria College changed my life
Victoria Advocate
At first, when I first started at Victoria College, I was nervous because I have never been to college before. The staff has helped build my confidence in myself. Because of that, I know I can get my degree in mechanical engineering.
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Record number of graduates at Harper College
Chicago Daily Herald
Four years ago, a college degree seemed like a long shot for Pokuta, who began her Harper education three years ago — six months after receiving a lifesaving liver transplant. “I wasn't supposed to make it,” she said. “Literally, at one point, ...
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Hamilton College grads celebrate 200 years
Utica Observer Dispatch
Ding shared his gratitude for Hamilton's admission of international students, especially because, for him, the high cost of a college education would have taken his parents more than 17 years to pay - and that would have been just for tuition.
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Pell Grants plug pulled for thousands of students
San Jose Mercury News
... Bay business degree. Instead, the 36-year-old San Jose resident will be searching for another solution because of a little-noticed congressional decision to reduce or eliminate Pell Grants for hundreds of thousands of the poorest college students.
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Hamilton College grads celebrate 200 years
Utica Observer Dispatch
Ding shared his gratitude for Hamilton's admission of international students, especially because, for him, the high cost of a college education would have taken his parents more than 17 years to pay - and that would have been just for tuition.
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CBS News
Dropping out: Is college worth the cost?
CBS News
(CBS News) One of the wealthiest, best-educated American entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel, isn't convinced college is worth the cost. With only half of recent US college graduates in full-time jobs, and student loans now at $1 trillion, Thiel has come up ...
Thiel's college dropout plan scrutinized by '60 Minutes'CNET
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CBS News
Dropping out: Is college worth the cost?
CBS News
Morley Safer reports. by MeesterOh May 20, 2012 9:53 PM EDT Billionaire college graduate Peter Thiel has been educated enough to know whether or not an education is valuable enough to tell you that a college education is (in his mind) not valuable.
Thiel's college dropout plan scrutinized by '60 Minutes'CNET
Peter Thiel On 60 Minutes: $1 Trillion In Student Debt Is $1 Trillion In Lies ...Daily Markets (blog)
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