Raising College Tuition Is A Tax Increase
Nevada’s Governor Gibbons and Chancellor Rogers are proposing to increase tuition in a state that received an F grade on its affordability rating in the 2006 National Report Card on Higher Education as a part of the governor’s plan to mitigate the state budget crises. From the report:
Nevada’s under performance in educating its young [...]
What’s So Funny about Online Education?
I don’t know if you caught it, but NPR recently broadcast a series on the increasing popularity of online education in the United States. This is definitely true in Nevada where online education has become an increasingly important aspect of the state’s higher education strategy. Hey, with our poor high school to college rate, [...]
What Harry Reid Has Been Up To
Besides selling out on torture and caving to the Republicans on funding for the Iraq occupation, Reps. George Miller from California and Ruben Hinojosa of Texas have rewritten Harry Reid’s peer-to-peer file sharing amendment that was defeated last year into the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, or COAA. The COAA might force colleges [...]
