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Checking In On Tuition Freezes

About a decade ago, public universities around the country began freezing tuition in response to student and parent complaints about the high costs of a college education. In the years…



Should English Majors Pay Less?

Institutions of higher education are bracing for a crunch, if they aren’t experiencing one already. Slowing population growth, mounting skepticism of academia, and various other factors have provoked college leaders—at…


Let’s Regulate Colleges Like Businesses

Colleges do not look like for-profit firms selling investments. After all, colleges are primarily nonprofits or state agencies, which, for our purposes, are treated equally. Nevertheless, colleges behave like for-profit…






They Have to Get Money Somehow

When students and parents plan for the cost of college, they mostly consider “tuition and fees” as a single expense for the academic part of university attendance and “living expenses”…