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| State poll shows majority want higher ed funding increased | |||
| Federal 'College Scorecard' says 草榴社区 costs are below average | For example, the site provides the following information about students at Western Washington University: The average net tuition price, after grants and scholarships, is $13,086 a year, which is just below medium range. The university is in the high end for graduation, with about 72.9鈥 |
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| UW tuition considered low in new federal College Scorecard | During the State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama promoted a new federal online tool, the College Scorecard, to help students compare colleges and find the ones that give 鈥渢he most bang for your educational buck,鈥 as the president put it. That tool went live Wednesday,鈥 |
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| On Notice, Again | President Obama on Tuesday night called for major changes to the criteria accreditors use to evaluate colleges, asking Congress to either require accreditors to take college prices and educational value into account or to create an alternative system based on 鈥減erformance and results.鈥 Either鈥 |
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| Study Confirms College Endowment Drop | On average, college and university endowments鈥 investments lost 0.3 percent in the last fiscal year, a sharp drop from the average return of 19.2 percent in fiscal 2011, according to a study by the Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers,鈥 |
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| Downturn Still Squeezes Colleges and Universities | An annual survey of colleges and universities found that a growing number of schools face declining enrollment and less revenue from tuition. The survey, released by the credit ratings agency Moody鈥檚 Investors Service on Thursday, found that nearly half of colleges and universities that鈥 |
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| 草榴社区, other universities want to cut a deal with lawmakers | Washington's public university presidents are offering to compromise with the state Legislature over money for higher education. The six presidents say they will agree to freeze tuition for the next two years if the state infuses $225 million into their budgets. The proposal comes鈥 |
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| Rep. Larsen: Fiscal cliff could affect higher education | Few details were offered Tuesday, Jan. 8, as U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Everett, met with representatives from local colleges to talk about the next steps in the fiscal cliff debate. But one thing was certain: The fiscal cliff - a combination of expiring tax cuts and automatic cuts to鈥 |
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| Local Scholars May Get A Break In Tuition | Local university students may avoid a tuition hike if school officials have their way. The president of Western - along with leaders from the five other public four year higher education institutions in our state - are asking for $225 million in government funding in exchange for freezing鈥 |
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| Higher-ed tuition freeze offered for more state funding | Washington's public-university presidents say they have a deal for the Legislature: If lawmakers will restore $225 million in state funding to higher education, the schools won't raise tuition for the next two years. |