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Warnings About Tuition Discounting
As Australia prepares to deregulate the setting of tuition prices, experts there warn that universities will begin offering cut-price “scholarships” while maintaining high sticker prices as markers of quality.
Tuition Politics
For three decades, tuition prices were kept low during gubernatorial election years, suggesting lawmakers' effect on college prices is more nakedly political than previously believed.
Most Expensive Colleges
Education Department updates its list of the most and least expensive colleges in the country -- a requirement of the Higher Education Act that some would like to see eliminated.
Promising Too Much?
A new nonprofit unveils a proposal to make public higher education free. Critics say it's too good to be true.
‘Tough Love’ for Higher Ed
An advocacy group's proposal for institutional accountability puts both for-profit colleges and elite research universities in the crosshairs.
Throwing Rocks at the Ivory Tower
A documentary filmmaker releases a critical look at higher education and student debt. But was he wrong to ignore the for-profit sector?
Inflation Plus Whatever
Middlebury College gives itself a loophole in its plan linking tuition, room and board to inflation.
Law School Ends Discounts
La Verne tries a radical approach to pricing. Could it catch on in legal education?