Category: College Affordability

2014, College Affordability, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

The Nature of the Beast: College Tuition and Fee Charges for 2014-15

By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute Last week the College Board released the 2014 Trends in College Pricing and Trends in Student Aid reports. As a former co-author of these reports, I remain critically interested in tuition and cost of attendance trends. Each year, I update our annual projection of the future tuition and fee costs at US institutions of higher … Continue reading The Nature of the Beast: College Tuition and Fee Charges for 2014-15

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2014, College Access, College Affordability, Research/Policy, Student Success

Lest We Forget — The GI Bill and Educational Opportunity

By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute On a day where we take time to remember the service members who sacrificed for our countries, it is an appropriate time to talk about how we repay them. The GI Bill has been seen as a critical safety net for our military men and women when they return from service. The GI Bill, created in … Continue reading Lest We Forget — The GI Bill and Educational Opportunity

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2014, College Access, College Affordability, Research/Policy, ROI/College Outcomes

What Does Mike Rowe know about College?

By Watson Scott Swail, President & Senior Research Scholar, Educational Policy Institute I like Mike Rowe. Rowe, the host of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs and the new CNN program, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, is a complex guy. A former opera singer (really) and host for QVC (has great stories about Joan Rivers), Rowe has become an outspoken proponent for the blue collar jobs and workers in … Continue reading What Does Mike Rowe know about College?

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2014, College Affordability, Financial Aid

The Continuing Nightmare: Tuition and Fees will Double in Less than 20 Years

by Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute There is always a lot of talk about college costs and future issues in higher education. I’ve written extensively about our inability to recast the higher education system due, in part, to the sheer weight of historical antecedents. That is, the system is burdened by the largess and bureaucratic nature of the system itself. Large systems … Continue reading The Continuing Nightmare: Tuition and Fees will Double in Less than 20 Years

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2014, College Affordability, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

Robert Reich and College Affordability

By Dr. Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute Last week, Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration, send this out on his Facebook account: HOW TO PAY FOR COLLEGE. This week I start teaching the second semester here at Berkeley. Many of my students and students at other universities are drowning in debt – which is distorting their career … Continue reading Robert Reich and College Affordability

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