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...intones in a convincing Terminator imitation, "have a sto-gie.") On the hustings, Ventura regularly told audiences what pollsters could have warned him they didn't want to hear. At a rally at the University of Minnesota, he reminded students that he opposed expanding government subsidies for college tuition. "If you're smart enough to be here," he roared, "you're smart enough to get through it," meaning college. "Have we become that dependent on government?" When his opponents, once they recognized him as an actual threat, accused him of knowing nothing about running a $12 billion-a-year state...
...biggest issue facing open education is the simple fact that it is free. Aside from the pretty penny Harvard collects from regular University tuition, it also makes a significant profit from online distance education classes through the FAS Extension School: course prices range from $800 for undergraduate credit to $1725 for graduate credit...
...Greenville, S.C. (Furman University), and most recently El Paso, Colo. (Colorado College), issued warnings that were off-putting if not outright alarming: students who register in their college town could be ineligible to be claimed as dependents on their parents' tax returns and might be in danger of losing tuition scholarships. The problem, according to youth-voter advocates and the IRS, was that these dire warnings were incorrect. After widespread outrage, the registrars backed off. But experts worry that the resulting confusion could sour first timers on voting altogether. "It's creating somewhat of a chilling effect," says Steve Fenberg...
Welch said he was aware that the financial downturn has impacted higher education endowments, but noted that the crisis has also affected parents and students who pay tuition...
...very powerful higher education lobby that circles the wagons,” Welch said. “But what I see is that more members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are growing increasingly concerned about what they see as [the] runaway cost [of] tuition...