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Testimony On 4-Year Fixed Tuition Shares Good, Bad At U of Texas Campuses

University administrators who have experimented with four-year fixed tuition at their colleges testified Wednesday on the pros and cons of a statewide implementation.

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The Dallas Morning News

Idahoans May Get Cheaper University Tuition as Utah Counteracts Missionary Exodus

Utah lawmakers moved one step closer Monday to passing a measure that would help fill a revenue gap left by an unprecedented exodus of students on Mormon missions by allowing public colleges and universities to offer in-state tuition to high-performing students from other states.

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AP via Magic Valley

$10K Degree Update

Behind the News
Ann McClure
University Business, March 2013

California, Texas, and Florida tend to be bellwether states for education because of their sheer size. So recent legislation proposed in California should have an interesting effect on the $10,000-degree movement. In January, Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Marysville proposed legislation to make it possible for students to get a degree from the California State University system through closer coordination between high schools, community colleges, and CSU. He later proposed a companion bill for $20,000 degrees from the University of California system.

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Free Tuition at Cooper Union May Be Near End

The new academic building was glamorous, its perforated metal skin shooting up dramatically from the streets of the East Village, then swerving around a daring gash of glass.

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The New York Times

College, University Students Look Back To Move Ahead

Laura Duscher and Brittany Stanoch say they are Minnesota’s future, so they suggest looking back to 1999.

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The Grand Forks Herald

Don’t Ax the Higher Education GET Program Just Yet

Hasty actions almost never solve a problem intelligently, and they quite often create new hurdles to a reasoned resolution. That scenario describes the pickle our legislature has created over the Guaranteed Education Tuition Plan (GET) and funding for higher education.

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The Olympian

Poll: Americans Want Lower Tuition, Credit for Competency

The majority of the American public agrees higher education institutions should reduce their tuition rates and award students credit for competency instead of time, according to a poll released last week.

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Badger Herald

Rising Tuition Costs Surpass Rate of Inflation

The head of one New York family cited complained recently: ‘In a two-week period, I had notices that tuition for my three children at private schools is rising between 15 percent and 30 percent.’” Sound familiar?

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