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• Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Costs, Benefits, and Implementation

This article discusses the costs and benefits of implementing affirmative action programs in higher education. Based on a national survey of institutions of higher education, the author addresses the following questions: What factors impede the ability of the affirmative action officer to achieve program results? What is the effect of staff size, budget, and race on perceived implementation barriers? This study finds that increased impediments to affirmative action program efficiency are greatly affected by program resources and race.

• Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management
• Vol. 16 Nbr. 2, July 2004

• Practical tax planning for higher education costs.

A number of financial planning vehicles are available to parents who are interested in saving up funds to pay for their children's college educations. Series EE savings bonds can be used, and to the extent that the proceeds are used for qualified higher education expenses, the interest is exempt from taxation. Some states are offering their residents the opportunity to prepay tuition and expenses, and others are using qualified state tuition programs that are allowed to defer investment earnings. The Dept. of the Treasury is also issuing indexed bonds starting in 1997.

• The Tax Adviser
• Vol. 27 Nbr. 11, November 1996

• Reaching 'a Tipping Point' for Affordability of College ; As Costs of Higher Education Soar, an Insatiable Appetite to Get Better Draws a Comparison to the Cookie Monster

Everyone from President Obama to the graduates at May commencements can tell you how the cost of a college education is rising. Why is not always as clear.

• Buffalo News
• May 31, 2012

• As College-Bound Pennsylvanians Seek Financial Aid, Remedial Courses Add to Higher Education Costs

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Michael Race of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, +1-717-783-9802

• U.S. Newswire
• May 01, 2009

• Higher Education Costs Expected to Get Higher

Facing increasing health-care and technology costs, many privately owned colleges on Long Island and nationwide raised tuition last year an average of about 6 percent and expect to impose similar hikes again for the 2004-2005 school year. Schools don't expect the hikes will lead to sticker shock, since many are reporting increased applications and enrollment. But hikes are leading to increased loans and debt for students.

• Long Island Business News
• June 11, 2004

• Higher Education Costs: ; Officials Looking at Block Tuition; Plan Would Allow Freshmen to Lock in Tuition for Four Years

At West Virginia's public colleges and universities, tuition increases are like parties - they happen regularly and lots of students are left with a headache. But help could be on the way.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• February 11, 2009

• Eight Schools Create Higher Education Center: ; Learning Center Keeps Costs Down, Raises Student Access

jdavison@wvgazette.com BECKLEY - In the past, Southern West Virginia college and university leaders have often been forced to compete with one another, struggling to raise enrollment and increase public and private funding.

• Charleston Gazette
• November 06, 2007

• Spotlight: Higher Education - States' College-Affordability Grades Worsen -- Tenn., N.Y. Only 2 in Which Higher Education Costs Decline As Share of Average Family Income

An independent report on U.S. higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability, an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts. The biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which evaluates how well higher education is serving the public, handed out "F"s for affordability to 49 states, up from 43 two years ago. Only California received a passing grade in the category, a "C," thanks to its relatively inexpensive community colleges.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• December 03, 2008

• Loan Reforms Are Just a Start

Last week, President Barack Obama announced changes to federal student loan programs that will ease the burden on young adults starting their careers. At a time when total student loan debt exceeds Americans' total credit card debt, his modest changes will help. Yet they treat only the most pernicious symptom of the underlying disease - rapidly rising higher education costs. Obama's plan accelerates and increases benefits that Congress already approved. Starting next year, eligible borrowers will be required to pay no more than 10 percent of their discretionary income for no more than 20years. The original congressional plan capped payments at up to 15 percent of discretionary income for up to 25 years starting in 2014. It is a modest difference, but one that will save some b...

• Roanoke Times & World News
• November 04, 2011

• College Degree Precedes Diploma ; Program Allows High School Students to Earn Associate Degrees, Potentially Cutting Higher Education Costs in Half.

Thousands of high school students aren't just attending college classes, they're earning college degrees before graduation and cutting their costs in half, helping to reverse the trend of students taking more time to earn degrees. They are the cream of the post-secondary option crop of students who now use their last two years of high school to knock out associate degrees and as many as half the requirements to earn bachelor's degrees.

• Dayton Daily News
• May 18, 2010