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...dollars to upwards of $1,000. “There are no limits on how much students can raise. The sky’s the limit,” Michael explained. Michael said inspiration for the project came from seeing students graduate with thousands of dollars in tuition loans. “We’re trying to do two simple things: bring the concepts of community and incentive into student achievement,” he said. “We believe small incentives help encourage students to perform well academically.” The brothers—who also...
Corporate 401(k) stinginess has already set in. GM is suspending 401(k) matching and tuition reimbursement, as is Frontier Airlines. And in a recent survey conducted by Watson Wyatt, a human-resources consulting firm, 6% of companies said they either had already cut 401(k) contributions or planned to over the next 12 months. "Do people notice their retirement benefits as much as their health care? No, they don't," says Maureen Tarantello, a Watson Wyatt senior consultant. "They deal with health benefits every time they see a doctor, but retirement is something that comes into play much later...
...going on in the 3s." Simko describes her job as leading students into a series of questions that will guide the curriculum. "It doesn't suit everybody," she says of the methodology, "but every school should have some elements of it." And it doesn't suit every budget. Kindergarten tuition is $27,300; it's not the costliest of Manhattan's exorbitantly priced private elementary schools, but it's up there. Even so, applications have been pouring...
Some 4 million Americans sign up for a distance-learning course each year, whether at an extension of a bricks-and-mortar institution or at an online-only school. Although the latter category is populated mostly by for-profit companies, WGU stands out as a nonprofit funded mainly by tuition and the $20 million in seed money supplied by those 19 governors. To help bolster its reputation, the school obtained accreditation from both regional standard bearers and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the professional body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for certifying teacher-preparation...
...University rolled out a series of financial aid expansions, including ones at the College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Medical School—initiatives University officials billed as Harvard’s commitment to student need. Families making less than $60,000 annually do not shoulder the burden of tuition at the College, and those earning up to $180,000 pay no more than 10 percent of their income...