A provision added into the state budget passed by the House – and now being considered in the Senate – would prohibit Ohio colleges and universities from charging students out-of-state tuition if they help them vote in the state. Out-of-state students attending school in Ohio are allowed to vote if they’ve lived in the state [...]
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid / Flickr Picking a college, and figuring out how to pay for it, is often confusing for students and their families, federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray told our colleagues at WKSU. Cordray said college-bound students crave “real numbers in a format that makes sense of a huge financial undertaking that [...]
For the second year in a row, the U.S. Department of Education has compiled a list of the most and least expensive colleges in the country. Miami University in Southwestern Ohio is among the most expensive public, four-year universities in the nation, and it’s the second most expensive college nationally when measured in net-cost, so taking into [...]
Building on the success of the K-12 Race to the Top program in encouraging states to change their education policies and systems, President Barack Obama proposed a second, $1 billion Race to the Top for America’s colleges during a speech today at the University of Michigan. Congress would need to approve the plan and, well, [...]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Rich Exner has an interesting look at whether it’s harder for students to work their way through college today than it was back in the day: He writes: What I found was that working full time for minimum wage year-round would leave today’s student about $3,200 short of being able to [...]
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