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Admissions rates are plummeting. Tuition is skyrocketing. The student loan industry is corrupt. Top-notch students are being sent out of the United States after graduation.For better or for worse, the public spotlight has gravitated toward the world of higher education this past year. In light of this heightened scrutiny, we hope that institutions of higher education reaffirm their commitment to allowing all to go to college—regardless of their background—and to protecting intellectual freedom.The rising cost of college tuition makes the need for student loan reform ever more apparent. As most students in need...
Georgetown University, for example, added a special charge of $200 per student to its tuition in 1982 specifically to make up for the loss of federal funding, according to Charles A. Deacon, who was and still is Georgetown’s dean of undergraduate admissions...
...February of 1982, Wesleyan became the first major university to change its aid policy because of the Reagan cuts; the school’s trustees voted to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who could not pay full tuition...
...University’s most recent enhancement—the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative—waives the parental contribution to tuition for families earning less than $60,000 a year...
Sacrificing study time and much-needed caloric fuel, these strikers send the message that their scholarly well-being should come second to petty labor disputes. It is not a sign of audacity, but of ingratitude—to those, either dutiful parents or generous donors, who furnish their tuition...