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30 août 2016

The demise of the textbook mafia

Submitted by Tim Goral. Everyone knows college textbooks are a racket, and it’s the tuition-strapped parents and broke students who pay the price. The cost of textbooks has grown at twice the rate of inflation, jumping 89 percent between 2002 and 2012, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. More...

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30 août 2016

Value of ‘performance-based’ funding for colleges disputed

Submitted by Tim Goral. Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to provide new funding for the UW System based on its performance in measures such as graduation rate and job placement would subject the System to a budget model that critics say has failed to deliver on its promise to improve higher education. More...

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30 août 2016

Curb exports of college grads

Submitted by Tim Goral. Exports are normally good for the state economy. But not when the exports are our college graduates. More...

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30 août 2016

Overdue campaign against college overspending

Submitted by Tim Goral. The Commission on Higher Education might have lost the battle over the expansion of Coastal Carolina University’s football stadium, but it isn’t giving up on its campaign against higher ed overspending. More...

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30 août 2016

Making Africa’s universities centers of innovation

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Four of the highest recipients of Olympics medals are also permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The US, UK, Russia and China rank on top not necessarily because they’re superpowers, but because they field competitors in nearly every sport. More...

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30 août 2016

One college bets big on 529 college savings

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Every dollar saved for college reduces the amount you'll need to borrow — and at one college, those savings will soon net extra scholarship money. More...

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30 août 2016

The sixteen most innovative people in higher ed

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Last year, we profiled ten college and university presidents who, in our judgment, were doing things differently, and better, than their peers. Instead of using their positions to increase their endowments and recruit a “better” sort of student in order to move their schools up the U.S. News & World Report rankings, these leaders were turning their institutions into laboratories of innovation in a hunt for better ways to deliver higher ed—providing quality degrees at lower cost, getting more students to graduate, and so on. More...

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30 août 2016

Three college bond measures focus on vets

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With an eye on supporting veterans getting back into the civilian workforce, three community college districts will ask voters in November to approve facilities bond measures that total $1.2 billion. More...

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30 août 2016

How cuts to public universities have driven students out of state

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Declines in state support for public universities have helped reshape the geography of public college admissions, leading many students to attend universities far from home, where they pay higher, out-of-state tuition. More...

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30 août 2016

Employee housing help in higher ed benefits community, too

By Leigh Greden and Russ Olwell. Programs to help employees purchase housing near campus have gained favor in the past decade. A housing program that improves neglected areas only increases the profile and potential of the entire campus community. More...

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