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.
Getting Into College Made Easy: Four Critical Questions to Ask
January 12, 2012
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.
"College Conspiracy" Video Highlights Occupying Students’ Tuition Complaints
November 14, 2011
“College Conspiracy,” an explosive video from The National Inflation Association that you can watch on YouTube.com, lays out the litany of complaints that lie behind the student tuition protests that are a backbone of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests.
Tuition Protests Come Under Fire as Police Arrest Berkeley Protesters
November 11, 2011
The “occupy” movement has sprouted a list of demands that is so long, it is sometimes difficult to understand what the movement stands for, or what it is demanding. Yet these themes emerge again and again in protests . . .
- College tuition costs are out of control
- Students incur staggering debt to pay for college
- Few jobs await students after they graduate
Radical Thinking from a College Consultant: The Government Should Regulate Tuition
November 07, 2011
No doubt about it. College costs have really been making headlines in the last few weeks - maybe even getting as much coverage as the World Series. To review, student debt reached an all-time high of more than $1 trillion. President Obama called for a new plan to help students repay student it. The ragtag people who are occupying Wall Street have demanded that all college loans be forgiven.
