NJ Comptroller: Rutgers contract practices still limit competition
By Keith Sargeant Rutgers University continues to limit competition in the awarding of public contracts and its procedures could…
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Rising Debt Engulfs Colleges as Well as Students
By Don Troop President Obama took aim last week at rising levels of student borrowing, but two graduate students…
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Ready for a $200K bachelor’s degree? Tuition at N.J. colleges continues to rise
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Are students and parents ready for the $200,000 bachelor’s degree? As college…
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10 N.J. colleges and trade schools receive low marks in federal ‘financial responsibility’ test
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger JERSEY CITY — Ten New Jersey colleges and trade schools were flagged in a…
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College for free? America can afford it: Opinion
By Jim Namiotka/The Star-Ledger Americans’ student loan debt now tops an unimaginable $1 trillion. In New Jersey, nearly two-thirds…
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Seeking Better Teachers, City Evaluates Local Colleges That Train Them
By Jabin Botsford/The New York Times In an effort to shake up institutions that have been criticized as too…
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Radical thinking on college tuition: Editorial
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board Tuition at New Jersey’s state universities is among the country’s most expensive. Only Vermont and…
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Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. A recent Associated Press expose—drawing…
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Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms
By Lee Fang […] There’s one area where Bezos has been hyper-active, but it is largely unknown to the…
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Opinion: Base N.J. aid to colleges on student performance, not enrollment
By Troy Singleton When Rutgers University’s Board of Governors voted last month to raise tuition 3.3 percent amid student…
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Sweeney proposes bill to study radically different tuition model
By Matt Friedman and Kelly Heyboer/The Star-Ledger TRENTON — What if New Jersey college students didn’t have to pay…
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Does Rutgers need 2 governing boards? Task force appointed to consider overhaul
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University today named six alumni and board members to a…
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