tuition
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| Student loans aside, college students face plenty of money woes | As Congress worked on a compromise this week on federal student-loan interest rates, students and college administrators in Washington state say loans are one of their many concerns about the cost of college. |
2012-06-27 | |
| Is UW Still Affordable? | Things will be different next year for UW senior Vincent Kwan. When the lease on his U-District apartment ends in August, Kwan will pack up and move back in with his parents on Beacon Hill. Each weekday, he’ll bus 30 minutes to and from class. He said he’d like to live closer to campus,… |
2012-06-20 | |
| Tuition might have to increase to cover rising U of Calif. pension costs | The cost of pensions and retiree health benefits are soaring at the University of California, increasing pressure to raise tuition and cut academic programs at one of the nation's leading public college systems. |
2012-06-20 | |
| UW regents call for state funding reform; approve 16% tuition rise | The state funding system for higher education is essentially broken, the University of Washington's regents board declared Thursday after passing a 16 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates this fall. |
2012-06-08 | |
| Tax-vote ruling boosts democracy | Every student learns the American mantra from their teachers and parents: work hard, play by the rules, and you'll have a chance to get ahead. This month's crop of graduating high school seniors is powerful evidence that Washington's students do step up to their responsibilities.… |
2012-06-08 | |
| Midday Scan: Tuition lesson at UW | "Higher ed to the higgest bidder" sounds like a platitude, a talking point to provoke a restive middle class. A proposed 16 percent tuition hike at the University of Washington throws the fervid slogan into the truism rank. So what can students do other than stew and hunt for a secord… |
2012-06-08 | |
| UW students facing 16% tuition hike look for cuts but find little fat | In a richly paneled boardroom at the University of Washington's Gerberding Hall on Friday, the university's most tenacious financial watchdogs finished a months-long review of the $5.9 billion budget. |
2012-06-06 | |
| Student debt: What's been driving college costs so high, anyway? | Aaron Marks graduates this spring with a business degree from a good college, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and, unlike many of his classmates, a good job. He also has $191,000 in student loan debt. |
2012-06-06 | |
| Lower tuition is the best aid for state's higher-education students | THE University of Washington is a state institution, although that's getting hard to believe any more. In 1970 the state covered more than 70 percent of the costs associated with a student getting a bachelor's degree. In the '80s that slipped to just 50 percent. |
2012-05-22 | |
| Slowly, as Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs | In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in “Animal House”), E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, keeps a framed quotation that reads, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” |
2012-05-18 |