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...Colleges like Stanford, Princeton, and Brown have maintained their tuition hike at around three percent, reluctant to raise tuition beyond that threshold...
...Giovanna Stefanel-Stoffel, 54, who together with her husband runs Stofanel Investment, the company behind the Marthashof development, isn't Swabian. Nor does the petite Italian with the friendly brown eyes look like a ruthless capitalist. When she describes Marthashof, she talks about her love of nature and how she would like to recreate the atmosphere of the Italian village she was born in. Stefanel-Stoffel is surprised by the disapproval that her project has sparked among some of the neighborhood's residents. "We're putting our name, money and know-how into this," she says. "We want...
...hours before the 5 p.m. deadline, the city agreed to give Morris Brown another 30 days to come up with the $65,000 balance. Despite the stay of execution, however, the school hasn't yet licked its troubles. Morris Brown has been struggling ever since 2002, when it lost its accreditation in the wake of a financial scandal. Enrollment plummeted from 3,000 to as low as 56, with just 161 students registered this semester. The school faces foreclosure on a building that is home to classrooms and an art gallery. And in a brand-new lawsuit, filed last week...
...groups and high schools that rent out vacant classrooms or the fallow football stadium in the off-season. Two band camps have already signed on to use the campus this summer. A change in Georgia law last year approved state financial aid for students at schools that, like Morris Brown, are on the road to reaccreditation; it's one reason Pritchett has set an enrollment goal of 1,000 students in 2014, which would translate to a significant tuition revenue increase. Whether similar fudging will allow the school to benefit from the stimulus bill is still unclear, but Pritchett says...
...wave season," are its busiest period; yet onboard traffic at many lines is down at least 25%. But the more important reason cruise lines are desperate to sell tickets is that their real revenue comes not from fares but from onboard spending. The industry's dilemma, says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of CruiseCritic.com, is that "if it takes fares this low to get me onboard, am I really going to spend that much in the casino or on the bottle of wine at dinner?" Says Yeary, "I do plan to be a little more careful in that department." To help...