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| State help for higher education dwindling, needs stabilizing | No one should be surprised that Washington State University recently announced a 16 percent tuition increase for fall 2012. Washington’s public colleges and universities are responding to a 2011-13 legislative budget that cut higher education funding by $685.5 million. |
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| In Our View: Tuition Hikes Necessary Evil | Recently announced tuition hikes of 16 percent at the University of Washington and Washington State University must, for now, be viewed as a necessary evil.Given the economy of recent years, state universities -- along with all state-supported entities -- have been in the firing line generated… |
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| Experts urge caution before investing in prepaid college tuition plans | As state universities prepare to raise tuition by double digits again this year, many families are looking to the state's prepaid college-tuition plan to blunt the impact. |
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| Degrees of Debt: A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College | Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life… |
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| Latest numbers reveal Washington college students not spared from grim outlook | The dark clouds looming over higher education in the nation and Washington may have a silver lining, but so far it’s been hard to find and the recent spate of news has been pretty bad for college students. |
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| Colleges may have to wait to enact tuition variances | Engineering and chemistry majors probably won’t have to pay higher tuition than history and English majors at the state’s colleges and universities, at least through next school year. A year after giving schools the authority to charge higher tuition for more expensive degrees, state… |
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| The Prestige Chase Is Raising College Costs | WITH ample reason, President Obama has grown impatient with my industry. In a recent speech at the University of Michigan, he said that while most new jobs in coming decades would require college training, access to higher education is increasingly threatened by runaway tuition growth. “… |
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| Students in Service program to be terminated Wednesday | |||
| Mounting student loans a 'debt bomb' waiting to explode | It’s a vicious cycle. Many families in this country cannot afford the skyrocketing cost of higher education without student loans. But many graduates cannot find a job and cannot pay off the loans. As a result, they wind up in a much deeper hole (as the interest and collection fees accrue) with… |
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| Stuff this idea into storage | If the state were to sell its art collection to help fund education, what would be next? Ask all legislators and higher education officials to pool their rare coins, gold chains and other jewelry to sell to GoldCo Unlimited, or some other liquidator? |