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| 2-year tuition freeze would erase GET hole, report says | If state universities froze tuition for the next two years, the financial woes of the state’s prepaid tuition plan would practically evaporate. |
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| Senate Dems: Hold line on public college tuition | The state’s Senate Democrats are not submitting quietly under the thumb of a Democrat-led Republican coalition that is running the Legislature’s upper chamber. Under a plan unveiled Tuesday, Democrats would halt soaring college tuition increases for two years, develop a new program in… |
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| As California Goes? | California is the Fertile Crescent for massive open online course providers, at least the for-profit ones. The state is also shaping up as a testing ground for phase two of the MOOC experiment, which includes fees and a path to college credit, and where public colleges try to use material from… |
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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’s Investors Service on Thursday, found that nearly half of colleges and universities that… |
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| Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later | In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter. The co-founders, computer science professors at Stanford University, watched… |
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| Higher ed's critical mission | Higher-ed politics, like a livestock auction, centers on shouted bids and broad-shoulder maneuvering. Two generations ago, it was more a silent exchange of notes across a table, often shepherded by Charles Odegaard, the laconic UW president who served from 1958 until 1973 and elevated the… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø, 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… |
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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. |
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| Reinvestment proposal would put college tuition in two-year freeze |