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Study flunks 49 states in college affordability
By Justin Pope
Associated Press
December 3, 2008
An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability — an embarrassing verdict that is unlikely to improve as the economy contracts.
got tuition? was on the road in Colorado with Governor Ritter again last Friday...
Fears of Drops in College Savings Accounts
By Kathy Boccella
The Philadelphia Inquirer
October 27, 2008
Priscilla Applegate looked at the unopened college-fund statements in her kitchen and worked up the nerve to take a peek.
By Maurna R. Desmond
Forbes
October 23, 2008
In June, 157-year-old Antioch College decided to "suspend operations" at its flagship campus despite a push from alumni to rescue the flailing institution.
In Downturn, Families Strain to Pay Tuition
By Jonathan D. Glater
The New York Times
October 16, 2008
In difficult dinner-table conversations, college students and their parents are revisiting how to pay tuition as personal finances weaken and lenders get tough.
By Dan Kane, Benjamin Niolet and Rob Christensen
The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC)
October 3, 2008
Democrat Jim Hunt, the former four-term governor, wrote to members of the North Carolina delegation urging them to back the financial bailout package. Scroll to the bottom of the article to read Hunt's comments on tuition.
Bank Limits Fund Access by Colleges, Inciting Fears
By Sam Dillon and Katie Zezima
The New York Times
October 1, 2008
In a move suggesting how the credit crisis could disrupt American higher education, Wachovia Bank has limited the access of nearly 1,000 colleges to $9.3 billion the bank has held for them in a short-term investment fund, raising worries on some campuses about meeting payrolls and other obligations.
College costs rank as major election issue
By Beata Mostafavi
The Flint Journal
September 29, 2008
For Brittny Giles, the thousands of dollars she and her family are paying for increasingly rising tuition, on-campus housing and books is no small burden.
Students in MS, MO Lobby for Federal Aid
By Got Tuition
Daily Kos
Thanks to the hard work of Kimberly Logan, an early childhood education major at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, more than 400 students, parents, instructors and others on that campus signed petitions today asking federal and state elected leaders to make college education more affordable for more students in a variety of ways, and wore black-and-white t-shirts that read "Got Tuition?" to help make their point.
By Gargi Chakrabarty
Rocky Mountain News
September 25, 2008
The costly battle over Amendment 58, a ballot measure to raise tax revenues from the oil and gas industry, is at fever-pitch roughly six weeks before Election Day.
In the latest salvo, supporters of Amendment 58 - including a coalition of students, education activists and political nonprofit New Era Colorado - denounced opposition ads funded by oil and gas companies.
Click here to read the release
College Funding at Center of Got Tuition?'s Message
By Ben Wolford
Daily Kent Stater
September 24, 2008
Got Tuition?, a nonpartisan group owned and operated by the National Education Association, will be making a stop at Kent State Oct. 15. The group seeks to educate student voters about issues that affect them.
Affordability is important issue to many
By Katherin Raichlen
Cavalier Daily
September 22, 2008
Poll results released last Wednesday by the National Education Association’s Got Tuition campaign suggest higher education affordability is an important issue to many voters.
