Tuition

The 3 percent increase, endorsed by the Student Government Association, will put the university’s room and board rate for a traditional room and meal plan at $2,635, up from $2,590.

Branstad encourages the movement to persuade legislators not to cut money for higher education again.

Three protesters were arrested Thursday at the UC Board of Regents meeting, when a few dozen activists, some stripped down to swimsuits, called for more transparency in state funding talks and an end to tuition hikes.

Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin told legislators Wednesday that under a proposal from Gov. Rick Snyder, EMU is being penalized instead of rewarded for its efforts over the past three years to hold down tuition increases.

For years now, administrators at the community college here have been inundated with woeful tales from students unable to register for the courses they need.

U.S. House Republicans -- saying they need to curb tuition inflation -- are seeking to raise the interest rate on federal Stafford Loans from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent and cut funding for Pell Grants, which is a form of financial aid for the most financially needy students.

Regents to vote on tuition increase in mid-April

Here's a higher education shocker: Thanks to tuition hikes at California's state universities on the one hand, and the generous financial aid policies of Harvard on the other, attending the Ivy League university is actually a better deal for middle-class students from the Golden State, the San Jose Mercury News reports.