Tagged: "paying for college"

May 04, 2008

Is Cost of Tuition High? Stop Whining?

I wrote a guest commentary that appeared in the online edition of the Denver Post yesterday. It’s about the high cost of tuition, with special attention given to tuition prices in the state of Colorado. It’s clear from reading the comments that many readers misunderstood my central point: that the citizens of Colorado cannot have [...]

March 18, 2008

Claremont-McKenna and Lafayette: Changes in Financial Aid

Two more colleges have readjusted their financial aid policies in the wake of Harvard’s decision to woo the middle classes by offering richer aid packages (which I wrote about here). The changes were reported in Inside Higher Ed: Two more colleges have joined the growing number pledging to eliminate loans for low-income students. Claremont McKenna [...]