Faced with more students and less state funding, the San Mateo Community College District is hoping voters approve Measure H in November to allow the district to issue $564 million in bonds over the next seven years.
The measure would cost San Mateo County property owners an estimated $12.92 per $100,000 in assessed property value each year, which on average comes out to $6.50 a month. The levy would continue for 25 years and pay for modernization, construction and technology.
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A new report from Harvard University reports that emphasizing college as the only viable career path after high school has probably harmed more students than helped them. From the Christian Science Monitor:
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University professors in California have rejected calls for academic austerity, instead offering a plan that would increase spending. The California Faculty Association, a union that's part of the SEIU, released a report called "Quality Higher Education for the 21st Century," but it's essentially a faculty wish list devoid of budgetary sense or solutions to problems facing the economy.
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Via Instapundit and the TaxProf, who are always on top of higher education news, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that college tuition is rising dramatically:
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Worried about how to pay off that student debt? Head on over to the closest government agency, and you too can score loan forgiveness after ten years of “public service.” Does that sound too good to be true? Well, Paul Winfree tells us that politicians voted to make these dreams (or nightmares) a reality:
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Worried about how to pay off that student debt? Head on over to the closest government agency, and you too can score loan forgiveness after ten years of “public service.” Does that sound too good to be true? Well, Paul Winfree tells us that politicians voted to make these dreams (or nightmares) a reality:
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Beware college speakers paid to educate students on diversity — especially when the events are “mandatory.” This is the lesson one might learn from Hamilton College’s “required” event on “rape culture.” According to Samantha Harris at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the event is “a program at which they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal
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Beware college speakers paid to educate students on diversity — especially when the events are “mandatory.” This is the lesson one might learn from Hamilton College’s “required” event on “rape culture.” According to Samantha Harris at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the event is “a program at which they will be pressed to acknowledge their personal
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Think twice before you make a complaint about parking at the University of Georgia. When student Jacob Lovell submitted an email to the UGA Parking Services, he was then threatened with charges of “disorderly conduct” and “disruption” by the associate dean of students, Kimberly Ellis. (Click here for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s press release.)
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Three years after inviting Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, Columbia University has invited Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia, to speak at its “World Leaders Forum.” (A better title might be the “Demagoguery from Dictators” series.) Zenawi may wind up getting billed as a “controversial choice” but he’s yet another dictator to join Columbia’s anti-democ
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