Word: tuition
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...cost of attending Harvard just increased again for next year. The good news is that the 4.1 percent increase is the lowest in 30 years. The bad news is that this increase puts tuition, room and board over the $30,000 mark...
...Clinton, a self-proclaimed "education junkie," to the rescue. Riding on the national wave of anxiety about college costs and growing concerns about the state of education, the President has unveiled a $50 billion proposal to make higher education more affordable and to increase enrollment by giving tax breaks, tuition grants and scholarships. The centerpiece of this plan is the Hope Scholarship, modeled after Georgia's successful lottery-funded program, which would give a tax credit of $1,500 to families in each of the first two years their child attends college, earns at least a B average and stays...
...just yet. The President's plan could become part of the problem as well as part of the solution. Many education professionals fear that the scholarships, aimed at the middle class, would benefit too many families that don't need the help and encourage colleges to raise tuition even higher. "It's just plain hucksterism," says Robert Zemsky, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Research on Higher Education. "Lots of people told the White House and the Education Department that this was nuts. I imagine every treasurer of every private university in America is just licking...
...tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs for some 3.7 million of America's neediest students. But critics are worried too that getting more people into college will lower education standards at public institutions, which spend more on each student than they collect in tuition and don't have big endowments to fall back on. Already in Georgia total state spending on colleges is up, while spending per student is down...
Billy Adare, Payback's in-over-his-head hero, is an honest law student who pays his tuition by working summers at the family trade of sandhogging, in a big water tunnel being dug beneath Manhattan. The work is dangerous enough at the best of times, but jostling has broken out between Irish construction thugs from Hell's Kitchen, who by tradition control labor in the tunnel, and Italian heavies hired by management to break the union. At first Billy tries to ride out the skirmishing. Then his elder brother Paddy, a former prizefighter who is an enforcer...