Search results for: “College Fees”
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Four-Year Colleges’ Tuition & Fees up 4.7% Next Year
From the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) director’s report for today’s council meeting: Public colleges and universities set tuition rates this spring for the 2017-18 academic year. Based on preliminary data, average tuition and mandatory fees at four-year institutions will be approximately $12,702, an increase of about $565 over last year. Community…
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Some Virginia State Colleges and Universities Host Chinese Government Student Control Organizations
by James C. Sherlock Virginia Tech’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association is the largest international student society at Virginia Tech, with more than 1,000 Chinese students and scholars and their families. It is also one of the largest Chinese student and scholars organizations in the United States. [Go to link and click “translate” in URL…
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SCHEV on the Community College Guaranteed Admission and Credits Programs
by James C. Sherlock I received a note from Peter Blake, director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV), in reference to my column on that program in early July. He thanked, as do I, readers for their interest and supportive comments. We agree with you that (Community College Guaranteed Admissions and…
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Info-Wars in the College Admissions Debate
by James A. Bacon It will be exceedingly difficult to hold an honest conversation in Virginia about the role of race in higher-education admissions and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. College administrators are the gatekeepers of data critical to the discussion and they will not share it. I have been stymied twice this week in my…
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Tuition, Room, Board and Fees Up 7% Next Year at Tech – Zero Cuts in Massive Administrative Overhead
by James C. Sherlock From The Roanoke Times Faced with inflationary pressures and state budget uncertainty, the school’s Board of Visitors voted unanimously to markup overall student costs by about 7%, increasing tuition and fees, plus room and board. It was not an easy decision, said Rector Tish Long. ”This is one of the most…
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SCHEV’s Study on College Completion Rates Is… Incomplete
by James A. Bacon The dirty secret of the higher-ed industry is the high rate at which students drop out of college. The six-year graduation rate for full-time, in-state students entering Virginia’s public four-year institutions in 1995 was 60%, implying a drop-out rate of 40%, according to State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV)…
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The Widely Varying and Inflated Costs of State Colleges and Universities in Virginia
by James C. Sherlock A College Board report, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid” estimated the total costs of attending college in 2021. The figures above represent total annual budget costs. This is a drill that many parents have been through. But I offer for the broader audience the differences in costs for one…
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The Crisis of Reducing Costs and Maintaining Standards at Virginia’s State Colleges and Universities
by James C. Sherlock Virginia’s state-funded colleges and universities are too expensive. Tuitions are the headline numbers. But student fees and food and housing costs are as important to the budgets of families and individual students as tuition. Costs within the college system have gone up because of a general lack of management systems and…
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Even With a New Name, Community College Can Be Free
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Lost in the discussion of last year’s General Assembly actions and the current discussion of renaming community colleges is the restoration of funding for Governor Northam’s “Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back” (G3) program. This program will provide a free community college education for low-and middle-income students enrolled in “high demand”…
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Ah, the Good Ol’ Days When a College Education Cost $235 a Year
Responding to my frequent diatribes against the rising cost of college attendance, reader Carter Peaseley sent me this clipping from an old Richmond College advertisement in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, dating back to 1906. The tuition was $100 for a full year of study, and living expenses were $15 a month. Total cost of a year’s…
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What Do Students Really Value in a College?
by James A. Bacon An ongoing debate about the economics of higher education is the degree to which students value their education as an investment (a way to get a better job and generate higher income) and to which they view it as a consumer good (four years of parties and good times). The question…
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General Assembly to Students on Mandatory Athletic Fees: Suck It Up, Peons
by James A. Bacon A bill that would make optional the paying of athletic fees at public Virginia universities died in a state Senate subcommittee Monday. Virginia universities charge some of the highest athletic fees in the country. According to a 2020 report by NBC News, Virginia Military led the nation with a $3,650 fee.…
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Hey, College Kids, Take a Gap Year
by Kerry Dougherty I’m delighted to no longer be part of the parental tuition-check-writing cohort. Because if I were, I’d have to tell my kids that my checkbook was closed. Take a year off, I’d tell them. A “gap year.” That way they could escape the dystopian nightmare that colleges and universities have become as…
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Uncertainty Shrouds College Move-in Day this Year
Against the backdrop of a stubbornly persistent COVID-19 epidemic, college kids are heading back to campus. Virginia’s colleges and universities soon will find out if all the students who paid deposits do, in fact, plan to attend this fall. Preliminary evidence suggests that enrollment numbers will not decline dramatically, although epidemic-control measures will significantly reduce…
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A College-Student Bill of Rights
by James A. Bacon College students should be reimbursed if they don’t receive the full benefits they pay for in tuition, fees, room, and board, declares the Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust. “COVID-19 has illuminated the long over-due need for basic consumer protections for those who are struggling to pay for the cost…