NAICU - News Room

Even though the 2012 NAICU Annual Meeting is history, you can continue to benefit and learn from the many presentations and speeches that were offered, and are now available on line.

New College Affordability Measures

Initiatives being launched in 2012-13 to help keep students' and families' out-of-pocket costs as low as possible. Tuition cuts and freezes, three-year degree programs, and more. Complete list.

NAICU Statement on President Obama's Higher Ed Proposals

NAICU President David Warren commends the president's commitment to student assistance, and calls for avoiding unintended consequences for students. More

Net Tuition Price Falls 4.1% at Private Colleges

Inflation-adjusted net tuition and fees at private colleges actually dropped 4.1 percent in the last five years, according to a recent College Board report. More

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College Endowments: Why Even Harvard Isn’t As Rich As You Think

Time

February 9, 2012

It seems everyone has an opinion about what colleges and universities should do with their endowments. Use them to lower tuition! Let students attend for free! Improve facilities! Hire more professors!

Project Seeks to Help Students Overcome Barriers to Voting

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 9, 2012

A national advocacy organization that focuses on increasing voter registration for underrepresented groups announced on Wednesday a campaign to spur student participation in elections and to help students overcome voting barriers.

Diverse Questions About AP

Inside Higher Ed

February 9, 2012

Despite efforts to offer college-level courses to more high schoolers, new data show 80 percent of black graduates whose PSAT scores suggested they could have succeeded in an Advanced Placement courses never enrolled in the classes. That rate drops to about 40 percent for Asians and 60 percent for whites.

Why not a right to a college education?

CNN.com "Schools of Thought" Blog - Opinion Piece

February 8, 2012

For me, politics is about pushing the borders to create space for even more change in the future. What if, instead of proposing policies geared towards individual middle-class tax-payers that revolved around the assumption that higher education was an individual's responsibility, the president instead proposed policies geared towards embedding higher education as an individual right. What if, instead of getting a tax write-off after you've already paid your son/daughter's tuition, you instead didn't have to worry about education because the government would pay for it?

Harvard’s Voluntary Tax Spurs Ailing Providence to Press Brown

Bloomberg Businessweek

February 8, 2012

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee last week intervened to restart talks over Brown University's so-called payments in lieu of taxes after Mayor Angel Taveras said Providence was about to run out of cash. Providence is seeking to emulate Boston, which is on pace to raise collections in lieu of taxes from Harvard University and other institutions by 25 percent to about $19 million this year, city documents show. Mayor Thomas M. Menino is trying to double the number of schools, hospitals and cultural institutions that pay by pressing more than 20 that gave nothing last year.

When College Rankings Are Inflated

New York Times - Letters to the Editor

February 8, 2012

Re "Gaming the College Rankings" (news article, Feb. 1): On the one hand, college admission officers disdain the U.S. News & World Report rankings. On the other, they slavishly fall in line - and sometimes cross it - trying to move up a few notches in the rankings. Perhaps they need some remedial work on definitions, starting with "paradox" and "hypocrisy."

The limits of college rankings 'racket'

CNN.com - Opinion Piece

February 8, 2012

U.S. News & World Report has been highly successful at inducing far too many high school students and their families to think that there are only a handful of colleges worth attending in the entire country, and by extension saying that if a student doesn't get into one of the 'select' few, then life will never be worth living. Attending a Tier 3 school doesn't make you a Tier 3 person, nor does enrolling at Princeton make you a prince.

White House and Universities Pledge Greater Effort to Retain Science Students

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 7, 2012

The Obama administration puts its stamp Tuesday on a strategy to boost the nation's numbers of science and engineering graduates by working harder to retain those already in the college pipeline. Increasing the retention of students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to 50 percent, from current levels below 40 percent, would create three-fourths of the one million additional degrees in the STEM fields that the administration sees as necessary over the next decade, a White House panel said in a report to President Obama.

UC Students Propose Alternative To Tuition Increases

NPR - Morning Edition

February 7, 2012

Under the Fix UC proposal, students would pay 5 percent of their income for 20 years following graduation. Fix UC recently presented the idea to the university regents. The idea is that students would have a dependable bill to pay, rather than wrestling with unpredictable tuition increases and rising debt. It's an appealing idea to some, but not a brand new one. Bob Shireman of the nonprofit group California Competes says conservative economist Milton Friedman wrote about similar concepts in the 1950s, saying education should be seen as an investment.

$60-Million in Federal Earmarks Go to Colleges That Employed Relatives of Lawmakers

Chronicle of Higher Education

February 7, 2012

Members of Congress have steered more than $60-million in earmarks in recent years to colleges and universities that employ their spouses and children, a Washington Post investigation has found. The biggest beneficiary, by far, was the University of Mississippi, which received $45-million with the help of Sen. Roger F. Wicker, a Mississippi Republican whose wife works as coordinator of student services for the university's Tupelo campus. In many of the cases, the lawmakers told the Post that their efforts had been motivated by public interest, not personal gain.


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