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Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students. -
1voteTuition and fees at public and private colleges and universities rose at more than double the rate of inflation, the College Board said in reports released this morning.
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1voteCollege administrators say public universities are increasingly tacking on fees for the same reasons that some are experimenting with differential tuition for different majors: state support for higher education has languished, and legislatures shy away from approving tuition increases. Fees can often be set by individual campuses.
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1voteShould an undergraduate studying business pay more than one studying psychology? Should a journalism degree cost more than one in literature? More and more public universities, confronting rising costs and lagging state support, have decided that the answers may be yes and yes.
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1voteConcerned that the barriers to elite institutions are being increasingly drawn along class lines, and wanting to maintain some role as engines of social mobility, about two dozen schools — Amherst, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the University of Virginia, Williams and the University of North Carolina, among them — have pushed in the past few years to diversify economically.
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1voteA report released Monday says that "despite all the hype, only 16.4% of incoming students in 2006 reported that rankings were very important in their decision to attend their particular college." That's up steadily from 10.5% in 1995, the first year the question was posed.
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1voteThis is the time of year when colleges send their decisions and many high school counselors console, cheer up and otherwise try to help this year’s seniors.
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1voteThe U.S. Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics says the number of graduating high school seniors will peak at 3.3 million in 2011 and decline only slightly to 3.2 million by 2016. Most educators predict that the percentage of those students going to college —about 67%--will increase and make the college application process even more stressful.
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1voteHarvard College rejected 91 percent of applicants for the coming academic year, the highest rate in its history, after an expansion of financial aid encouraged more applications.
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1voteDavidson College announced Monday it will eliminate loans from its need- based financial aid packages and replace them with grants and work study, a move school officials said would allow students to graduate debt-free.
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