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Blog post by Lloyd Armstrong: The State of the Union on college costs

So let me put colleges and universities on notice: If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down. Higher education can’t be a luxury. It is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.

Barak Obama, State of Union 2012

Does this speech signal that the time has finally arrived when the government – which pays a good part of the bill – will step in to limit the rapid and seemingly never ending growth of tuition? In normal times, the answer would… Continue reading

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Where to find money for important initiatives

UW-Madison uses more than 72 e-mail systems and buys more than 250 types of black pens.

A new report found that the university could save money – up to $8.5 million – by centralizing and standardizing some of these administrative functions.

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Steven Rattner discusses the relationship between education and income

Financier Steven Rattner explains how the real earnings of someone with less than a high school education, after adjusting for inflation, dropped by 25 percent between the years 1979 and 2010.

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