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Why Do Minnesota’s “Affordable” Colleges Produce Highest Loan Default Rates?

Among the reasons students choose to attend a community college, one of the most important is that community colleges are affordable. So it may come as some surprise that about one in seven Minnesota’s public community college students who takes out federal loans for school defaults on them within three years of the date they […]

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10 Reasons to Love Clinton’s College Policies

1. Restores funding through tax fairness. Clinton has put forward a robust federal funding program to provide states with increasingly large matching grants to correct state disinvestment in public higher education—the root cause of today’s high costs of attendance. The cost of the New College Compact will be entirely covered by closing tax loopholes for […]

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Affordable Education Is Critical to Promising Future

The issues facing America’s colleges and its college students have rightfully been getting plenty of attention this presidential election campaign. After all, education is key in attaining financial health. Time and again, financial success has been linked with schooling, whether it occurs in a trade school, community college or four-year university. The average annual income […]

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U.S. Can’t Afford “Free”

Have you ever noticed how easy it is for politicians to promise you the moon even though there is no way possible to pay for what they promise? Former President Bill Clinton did that during a visit to Saginaw last Monday. He outlined wife Hillary Clinton’s plan for higher education if she is elected president […]

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Making “Campus Carry” Safe

Judging from the paltry turnout at last week’s community forum about implementation of campus-carry law at McLennan Community College, folks in the neighborhood aren’t exactly worried about the campus erupting into some Dodge City collegiate shootout. There were more signs on campus pointing to the site of Tuesday night’s forum than actual participants. Amidst a […]

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Combatting Ageism in College

Here are the things that people will say if you are an incoming college student, returning or otherwise, over the age of fifty. You need help. You need lots of help. You do not know how to surf the internet or send an email. You might not even know how to use a computer. You […]

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Make Colleges Repay Loans If Graduates Can’t

When the U.S. Education Department shut down ITT Technical Institute at the beginning of the fall semester, some people saw it as just desserts for the for-profit college. Given ITT’s relatively low graduation rates, alleged use of deceptive job placement figures in its recruiting efforts, and high numbers of loan defaults and delinquencies, the government […]

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“We Continue to Fail These Students.”

“… If I told you that 4.5 million U.S. citizens are going to die based on current U.S. policies, would I have your attention? Why are we, the people, settling for this plague of perpetual underemployment in the wealthiest country in the world? You and I could fix this,” Wick Sloane writes for Inside Higher […]

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Expansion of College Shows Commitment

North Shore Community College is building a new Lynn campus addition to ease an enrollment crunch. But the ongoing construction project visible to anyone driving or walking on Broad Street is a giant advertisement for the city’s possibilities and potential. Once it is completed, the addition will feature a curved front entrance to the college […]

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We Need Free Community College Now

In 2015, President Obama proposed America’s College Promise, which would provide free tuition for students attending community college. The basis for his plan was to address the fact that, by the end of this decade, two-thirds of jobs will require higher education. Yet almost two years later, the program seems to be withering on the […]

Finance

Taxpayers, Students Bridge Suburban Funding Gap

Ten years ago, College of DuPage received $21.2 million from the state to help fund the operation of the second-largest community college system in Illinois. By 2015, the state’s contribution had dropped to $18.7 million. It was the only suburban college to receive less money that year than a decade ago. But now, every suburban […]

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Is It Time to Take a Second Look at Community College?

Personal finance blogger Zina Kumok graduated from Indiana University saddled with $28,000 in student-loan debt, $350 in minimum monthly payments and a $28,000 annual journalism salary. She struggled financially, but paid off that debt well before most people by making sacrifices and saving every penny she could. Kumok is now on a mission to spread […]

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