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Chinese national Jiangyu Zhu, 33, and Japanese national Kayoko Kimbara, 35, who are married, have been living on bail in San Diego since their arrest nearly three years ago. They are accused of stealing materials from Professor of Cell Biology Frank D. McKeon??€™s lab at HMS in December, 1999, when both were preparing to leave Harvard for the University of Texas at San Antonio...
Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, said that McKeon??€™s bill—which along with the HEA is still in the early stages of debate—was unlikely to pass in its present form...
...McKeon??€™s bill would require colleges to post their tuition and fees on an easy-to-access website beginning in 2005. According to the proposed legislation, institutions whose costs rose at more than twice the rate of inflation for three consecutive years would be required to submit an explanation rise and a plan to slow the increase to the Department of Education...
...McDonough said that while McKeon??€™s bill has flaws, it addresses a real problem. He said the proposed website would make it easier for students to access cost information, and attention to the problem of rising costs is welcome—though price controls...
While many Americans are frustrated by the high costs of college, legislation limiting tuition increases is not the way to combat it; McKeon??€™s proposal would likely hamper the quality of American higher education. By targeting only tuition increases, McKeon is missing half of the story—fast tuitions increases at select private and state schools over the last 50 years has been coupled with tuition decreases at the less expensive community colleges. This cost dispersion has made colleges more heterogeneous—widening the spectrum of schools from which students can choose the most appropriate...