Tag: Student loans

Solar and wind are hailed as the future of energy, but focusing college studies on such topics may not be fruitful in the long run. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Do solar and wind degree programs offer college students a good future?

Vijay Jayaraj · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

The West Virginia state legislature is moving ahead with plans to provide free community college to its residents, so long as they pass a drug test — a contentious addendum in a state rife with opioid abuse. (iStock)

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Should West Virginia require drug tests in return for free college?

Brendan Pringle · February 7, 2018 10:54 pm

Colleges and universities need to take a hard look at reducing costs, not merely promising tuition freezes while raising the cost of fees and other items. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

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Colleges emphasize tuition freezes, but not cost reduction

Kate Hardiman · January 26, 2018 7:03 pm

College is so expensive that students are willing to prostitute themselves to pay for it. (Facebook)

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Students joining ‘sugar baby’ program to pay school tuition

Brendan Pringle · January 25, 2018 7:57 pm

Take Our Colleges Back: A Blueprint for Rolling Back Campus Radicalism

Scott Yenor · January 22, 2018 10:05 am

Rather than providing an incentive to receive workplace training, paid higher education creates a feeling of entitlement and is ripe for abuse. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Huffington Post contributor argues students should get paid to study

Brendan Pringle · January 18, 2018 9:30 pm

While he may have meant well, former Vice President Joe Biden's message came off as completely insensitive to a generation that has been stereotyped for its sensitivity. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Joe Biden will never connect with millennials

Brendan Pringle · January 15, 2018 9:45 pm

Colleges tend to focus their financial aid dollars on low-income families, leaving middle-income students unable to meet the low-income cutoff for most financial aid programs at the college level and at the government level. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rising college costs are forcing many students to drop out

Brendan Pringle · January 15, 2018 2:48 pm

Midwest public universities have been hit particularly hard by declining enrollment from international students. Waning enrollment has accounted for $14 million in lost revenue at the University of Central Missouri, alone. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Colleges forced to slash budgets as enrollment of international students drops

Brendan Pringle · January 6, 2018 5:01 am

On Fox News Monday, political analyst Ron Meyer warned about the risk of full-blown student loan forgiveness that many students are championing on campuses across the country. (screenshot)

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House bill could allow students to pay loans with future social security money

Lauren Cooley · December 26, 2017 11:16 pm

Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has pledged that his tenure at Purdue University will bring new efficiency to the stultifying higher education sector. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Overall university enrollment is declining, but Purdue is skyrocketing. Here’s why

Kate Hardiman · December 24, 2017 5:01 am

According to the official job listing, the individual's primary role will be to "strategically plan, develop, implement and evaluate diversity and inclusion education curricula and community programs for the URMC enterprise." (via UR Medicine Facebook)

Medical school seeks to hire a ‘visual microaggressions’ monitor

John Patrick · December 20, 2017 7:39 pm