by Daron Anderson of UW Daily The state needs money, and the state Legislature is considering cutting the State Need Grant, the UW’s largest financial-aid program, then using student tuition dollars to make up the difference. The Washington Senate Ways and Means committee proposed a $25 million cu[...]
Posts Tagged ‘tuition’
Privatizing the UW, one buck at a time.
Seattle Times: Rising tuition a threat to GET program The GET program commits Washington State to pay tuition at a state school in return for savings by the parents put into GET. In effect “we” have guaranteed parents that their investments will pay for their kids’ education.[...]
January 20th, 2011 - 9:30 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
What would happen if Apple stopped creating new products?
There is a lot of fantasy going on about ways of cutting costs at public universities while somehow compensating with scholarships or creating private endowments for public schools. AINT gonna happen! Here in Washington state, the state part of the cost of higher ed is already down to 30% … [...]
January 7th, 2011 - 9:53 am § in Misc.
Tim Eyman: 1053 Requires that Legislators Set Tuition.
from Sound Politics: Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law. There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition incre[...]
January 5th, 2011 - 3:33 pm § in UW
Kiplingers ranks UW in the top 10 “Best-Value Public Colleges
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/best-values-in-public-colleges-2011.html[...]
January 4th, 2011 - 12:16 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Is U Penn Cheaper than UW?
David Goldstein’s latest post at HorseAss is a very disturbing comparison of true costs (after grants, loans, and so on) of attendance at his alma mater U. Penn. vs a typical public university. The point he makes is that the real cost of a student attending a private ivy, U. Penn, may not be a[...]
America Competes Act Passes!
House Clears America COMPETES Reauthorization By Juliana Gruenwald December 21, 2010 | 6:44 PM The House cleared legislation Tuesday that would reauthorize the America COMPETES Act, which authorizes basic research, programs aimed at boosting science, technology, engineering and math education and ot[...]
January 2nd, 2011 - 5:39 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Judge:Florida Legislature Has Tuition-Setting Power
Tuition To Be Set By the Legislature December 31, 2010, 7:47 am A state judge ruled on Thursday that Florida’s Legislature has the authority to set tuition for its 11 public universities, dealing another setback to a former governor and U.S. senator, Bob Graham, who had led a lawsuit seeking to gi[...]
December 29th, 2010 - 11:26 am § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Third World America, II
see also Part I: going to school on a Native American Reservation. Robert Reich’s summary of the woes of our declining education system seems almost a continuation of the story in Part 1 of a young American trying to get an education under the third world standards of life on an Indian reserva[...]
December 28th, 2010 - 12:01 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Cut the loopholes, fund REAL needs.
Washington’s ref 1098, a surtax on the very wealthy, succumbed to an effort to paint it as tax increase. Now State Rep. Larry Seaquist (D-Gig Harbor) is offering a very clever alternative: ask the voters to fund real needs by eliminating nonproductive tax preferences, loopholes. David Go[...]