Gretchen Whitmer, the Michigan State Senate’s Democratic leader, must be wearing a jaunty green cap and carrying a bow and arrows this week, because she wants rich corporations to pay college tuition for Michigan students. Under her Michigan 2020 Plan, Michigan high school graduates who attend Michigan community colleges and state institutions would have all their tuition and associated costs paid for by closing some of the tax loopholes that allow corporations to pay less in taxes.
Michigan Plan Wants to Rob from the Rich, Give to Poor Students
January 23, 2012
Actual College Grads Owe $70,600, $23,000, $104,104. How You Can Do Better
January 20, 2012
Majoring in Debt, a series of posts on The Huffington Post, serves as a kind of public forum where college grads can report how much money they owe on college loans. just visited Majoring in Debt for the first time in several months, and found a new series of debt profiles and stories. Here are some highlights. . . .
Are You Flat Broke and Applying to College? Well, Get in Line
January 14, 2012
“Population of needy college students is exploding,” a recent blog post written by Daniel de Vise for the College Inc. blog, delivers some sobering news about the number of American college applicants who have no money at all to pay for their schooling.
Getting Into College Made Easy: Four Critical Questions to Ask
January 12, 2012
Going to the wrong college can be more than disappointing. I can cost you a fortune too. You can find some comments that prove that point from StudentsReview.com, a website where students review hundreds of American colleges.
Why Are America's State Universities Starting to Look More Like the Ivy League?
January 02, 2012
More of America’s more elite public institutions (including UC-Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the University North Carolina) will start to look more like elite private institutions. Granted, they need to change in order to survive. But as a result, they will probably serve fewer in-state, budget-conscious students and their families.
Top 2011 Posts on Educational Trends
December 10, 2011
Now that 2012 is only a few calendar pages away, it’s time to look back at some of the most useful posts on Educational Trends
from the last six months on the StraighterLine blog!
Cost-Cutting Fever: Affluent Students Choose Community Colleges
December 05, 2011
Wealthier kids have started to enroll in community colleges. Why shouldn’t they? Nobody has money to burn today, not even rich people. As you have probably noticed, wealthy people like things that represent good value, like good solid shoes, L.L. Bean chino pants, islands off the coast of Maine and now – community colleges.
Forty Degrees Below Zero and Dropping . . . Occupy Alaska Protestors Are the Most Determined of All
November 29, 2011
Anyone who doubts the commitment of Occupy protestors needs to know about the hardy protestors who are part of the Occupy Alaska movement. According to a recent report on Reuters, Occupy protestors in Anchorage and Fairbanks are stalwartly refusing to give up and fold their tents, even after spending several weeks camping outside in temperatures that have plunged to minus 40 degrees.
Occupy Student Debt Urges Graduates to Default on Student Loans
November 23, 2011
“The student loan bubble may not burst with a bang, but it is slowly suffocating us.”
College Campuses Become the Center for Occupy Protests
November 19, 2011
“Occupy Wall Street Protesters Shifting to College Campuses,” an article in the November 14 New York Times, reports that as the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being driven from public parks in many cities across the country, they are setting up camps on college campuses. Perhaps that’s not a big surprise. After all, American students have always been willing to protest social wrongs, and now they are protesting high tuition.
