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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Student Loan Bill Breezes On
By Jeremy W. Peters and Ashley Parker WASHINGTON — Something pretty rare happened in Congress on Wednesday: it approved…
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Abrupt For-Profit Closures Surprise Regulators
By Kelly Field Tracy DeLorey was only three months away from graduation in January when she learned, via Facebook,…
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From the Ivy League to Rutgers: Brian Strom prepares to become health science chancellor
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger NEW BRUNSWICK — Just reading Brian Strom’s current job description is exhausting. He is…
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College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
By Richard Perez-Pena The long enrollment boom that swelled American colleges — and helped drive up their prices —…
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Senate Approves Deal on Student-Loan Interest Rates, Ending Standoff
By Cory Weinberg Washington…The Senate voted on Wednesday to undo the increase in student-loan interest rates that went into…
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‘Shake Up’ for Higher Ed
By Scott Jaschik President Obama vowed Wednesday that he would soon unveil a plan to promote significant reform in…
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