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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

197. MVCAP fyi

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1. Jobs that pay well, no degree required, by Anthony Balderrama - http://bit.ly/eyss8f #cnn

"That's not to say you shouldn't earn a college or graduate degree if you want. However, if college isn't the right option for you or if it's not a plausible option in the short term, consider these 15 professions that don't require a college degree but pay well:"

2. Economy shuffles Princeton Review's Best Value Colleges, by Mary Beth Marklein - http://t.co/7J4vIXM via @USATODAY

‎"Federal stimulus money, which helped many public universities hold tuition down, is about to dry up. Some private schools, including Williams and Dartmouth, are paring financial aid. House Republicans have proposed cutting the maximum Pell Grant given to needy students."

3. Four Questions on How to Cut Tuition, by John M. McCardell Jr. - http://nyti.ms/fvg07r

‎"I would not presume to say what other institutions might be capable of doing. But I WILL say that any institution that has embraced the high tuition/high discount mode of fee-setting is, sooner or later, heading for a fall."

4. Funding Completion, by Hilary Pennington - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/hOtoab

"Today, Complete College America (an effort supported by the Gates Foundation and four other national philanthropies) is inviting all governors to take the Completion Innovation Challenge. The 10 governors with the most innovative and inventive proposals to significantly boost college completion in their states each will receive a $1 million grant."

5. Wanted: A Dependable Backer, by Dan Berrett - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/hzJ1mf

"State governments have proven to be unreliable partners," Robert J. Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley, said here Saturday morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "The federal government needs to guarantee the fate of our great public institutions."

6. U.S. House Votes to Slash Current-Year Education Funding, by Alyson Klein - http://t.co/wFLnmJj

"The U.S. Department of Education's current-year budget would be slashed by more than $5 billion under a bill approved early this morning by the U.S. House of Representatives on an almost strictly party line vote of 235-189. That sets up a showdown as the legislation heads to the Democratically controlled Senate, where lawmakers are expected to reject the cuts."

7. Generous, but Not So Generous, by Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/hNTmL9

"While aid officials almost uniformly want to encourage more colleges to offer more aid, many have been quietly critical of institutions like Yale, Harvard and Stanford for being as generous as they are to families with incomes as high as $200,000 . . . ."I think Yale want too far, farther than anyone else," said one aid director at an elite college who asked not to be identified. . . ."

8. Financial Aid Growing Faster than Tuition - Notre Dame Magazine // University of Notre Dame - http://t.co/vQla4GD

‎"Trustees approved an increase of $1,150 in tuition and $290 in room and board for next fall, bringing the average undergraduate student’s bill to $29,100 a year. The combined increase of $1,440 or 5.2 percent is the smallest, percentage-wise, in two decades. . . . Even with the price increase, Notre Dame continues to cost less than all but two of the other institutions in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s top 20 national universities."



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