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Search Results for: College Fees
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Attendance, Discipline and disorder, Education (higher ed), Education (K-12)
Tagged James Sherlock
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (higher ed), Transparency
Tagged James A. Bacon, University of Virginia
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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.” … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
