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When he announced the proposal last month to the Education Finance Council, a non-profit in his home state, McKeon said he knew that it would impose a hardship on many colleges...

Author: By Emily S. High, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congress Considers Bill To Penalize Tuition Hikes | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

Harvard—which recently announced that undergraduate term bills will increase by 5.5 percent next year—would be one of many schools targeted by the measure, proposed in a speech last month by Howard P. “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif...

Author: By Emily S. High, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congress Considers Bill To Penalize Tuition Hikes | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

...recognize the burden that this will place on colleges and universities,” McKeon said. “However, America would face a far greater burden if college-qualified students are continually barred from attending college because of unreasonable cost increases...

Author: By Emily S. High, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congress Considers Bill To Penalize Tuition Hikes | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

College affordability has long been a pet issue for McKeon, who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Twenty-first Century Competitiveness...

Author: By Emily S. High, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Congress Considers Bill To Penalize Tuition Hikes | 4/9/2003 | See Source »

...career, first, of course, be sure you have sufficient interest and skills. Then consider acquiring additional credentials by taking continuing-education courses at a local college, university or technical school. This is much easier once you are retired and have the time to take classes and do the homework. McKeon, for example, took about $10,000 worth of classes in coaching over eight months and earned a professional certificate. "It was so worth the investment," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Over | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

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