Category: Research/Policy

2012, College Affordability, Research/Policy, Student Success

A Degree in Three Revisited

by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, President Emeritis, The George Washington University, and Gerald B. Kauvar, Research Professor of public policy and public administration, The George Washington University Because of increased financial constraints on all State supported and most independent colleges and universities one reads and hears more and more about the wisdom of fully utilizing existing facilities in order to lower costs and expand access.  Legislators and institutional … Continue reading A Degree in Three Revisited

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2012, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

Indiana’s Higher Education Plan to Save the World

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International This morning, InsideHigherEd.com reported on Indiana’s plan to double the number of college degrees by 2025, from 60,000 to 120,000. Indiana, led by Governor Mitch Daniels (George W. Bush’s former Director of the OMB), uses a performance funding approach to higher education. In 2009, Daniels signed a 6 percent budget across-the-board cut, and most … Continue reading Indiana’s Higher Education Plan to Save the World

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2012, College Affordability, Financial Aid, Research/Policy

Free Tuition? Really?

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International As we continue to hear more about free or cheap university programs through MIT and other players, news comes from the province of Alberta of the Liberal party’s platform to reduce tuition gradually until it is free. To do this, the Liberal Party plans on creating a Post-Secondary Education Fund which would add money … Continue reading Free Tuition? Really?

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2012, College Affordability, Research/Policy

Can We Trust Colleges and Universities?

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International Last week, I discussed the President’s proposal for cost cutting and keeping colleges on task and on budget. Yesterday, the Senate held a hearing on college affordability that basically showed how the government is handcuffed from finding a way to get colleges in line, fiscally or otherwise. Senate Democrats and Republicans lined up and … Continue reading Can We Trust Colleges and Universities?

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2012, College Affordability, Research/Policy

Aiming High: The Keeping College Affordable Initiative

By Watson Scott Swail, President & CEO, Educational Policy Institute/EPI International This morning, President Obama used the setting of staff and students at the University of Michigan to unveil his Keeping College Affordable initiative. Based on his State of the Union speech a few nights ago, we knew this was coming and we knew mostly what it was about, and as Secretary of Education Arne … Continue reading Aiming High: The Keeping College Affordable Initiative

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