Posts Tagged ‘tuition’
State Budgets Slowly Recovering, Reports NEBHE as it Updates Figures on Higher Ed Finance
by NEBHE Staff
July 18, 2013
While some economists see the national economy poised to come back, state budgets and economies aren’t yet in the clear, according to the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO) and National Governors Association (NGA) 2013 Fiscal Survey of States.
As it is, New Englanders pay just $179 per capita toward higher education, compared with $230 ...
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NEBHE’s Tuition Break Continues Steady Growth with More Students and Programs
by Wendy A. Lindsay
March 5, 2013
NEBHEs Regional Student Program (RSP), known as Tuition Break, provided more than $53 million in tuition savings this academic year to 9,338 participating students, according to the recently published 2012-13 Annual Report of the New England Regional Student Program (RSP).
Highlights from the 2012-13 RSP Annual Report: The RSP provided more than $53 million in ...
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NE Legislatures Adjourn After a Tough Fiscal Year
by Carolyn Morwick
August 7, 2012
Though New England state revenues have rebounded slightly during FY 2012, the states held the line on new spending for FY 2013 and, in some cases, made further cuts. The outlook for future state spending is uncertain as the economy continues to grow at a sluggish pace, and national and state elections signal new challenges.
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Before We’re Up to Our Necks in Aggregators, Let’s Get Out Our Net Value Calculators!
by Lawrence Butler
April 20, 2012
No sooner has the Net Price Calculator wave crashed ashore, the next wave of college-choice transparency in the form of third-party data aggregators is threatening to engulf us. A Net Value Calculator can help us recapture the high ground.
Since last October, Net Price Calculators (NPCs) have become a fact of life for American colleges ...
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Warming up to a Tuition Freeze
by Monnica Chan
March 14, 2012
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in its recently released fourth quarter 2011 New England Community Survey, cited an emerging concern facing low- and moderate-income communities: the escalating cost of higher education.
The New England region has the highest average tuition and fee rates for 2011-12 across institutional sectors, according to the College Board's most ...
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Trends & Indicators: Financing Higher Education
by NEBHE Staff
February 1, 2012
Updated February 2012 ...
New England's public and private two-year and four-year colleges continue to be more expensive than the U.S. averages. The region continues to hold the dubious distinction of America’s lowest state appropriations for higher education and highest tuitions and fees for public colleges and universities. Recent data from the annual Grapevine survey by the Illinois ... Read MoreTags: appropriations, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, SHEEO, Trends & Indicators, tuition | No Comments
DC Shuttle: Obama Outlines New Policies to Make Higher Ed Affordable
by The New England Council
January 30, 2012
During a Friday morning speech at the University of Michigan, President Obama announced a set of initiatives to improve the quality and affordability of higher education. His proposals include tying federal financial aid to colleges’ efforts to contain costs; new competitive grant programs for states, colleges, and organizations to improve college outcomes; and making colleges’ ...
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NE College Prices Continue to Outpace Nation’s; Obama Unveils New Tuition Proposals
by Monnica Chan and John O. Harney
January 29, 2012
New England's public and private two- and four years colleges continue to charge higher prices than the U.S. average, according to new data posted to the Financing Higher Education section of NEBHE's Trends & Indicators. To view the latest updates to our Higher Education Financing section, visit Trends & Indicators: Continually ...
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Higher Ed Prices Still Going Up: NEBHE Releases 2011 Report on Tuition and Mandatory Fees at Public Postsecondary Institutions
by Monnica Chan
October 6, 2011
NEBHE released its 2011 report on tuition and mandatory fees at public postsecondary institutions available online. In an effort to inform the decision-making of state policymakers as well as public higher education leaders and trustees, this report provides details of public postsecondary tuition and mandatory fee rates for the past five years, collected during the ...
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Exploring Higher Education Business Models (If Such a Thing Exists)
by John O. Harney
October 8, 2013
The global economic recession has caused students, parents and policymakers to reevaluate personal and societal investments in higher education—and has prompted the realization that traditional higher ed “business models” may be unsustainable.
Jay A. Halfond of Boston University and Peter Stokes of Northeastern University recently conducted a non-scientific "pulse" survey of presidents at smaller ...
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