Tag: NY Times
A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College
ADA, Ohio — 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 insurance policy [...]
California: Faculty Agrees to Campus Strike in the Fall
Faculty members in the California State University system said Wednesday that they had approved plans for a two-day rolling strike at campuses all over the state. The California Faculty Association, which represents professors, lecturers and librarians at the system’s 23 universities, has been negotiating with administrators for new contract for nearly two years. Union officials [...]
Reining In College Tuition
Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama’s proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, which would require Congressional approval, will not be fleshed out until later this month, the idea behind it is sound. Related News Mixed Reviews of [...]
