Harvard announces free tuition for students whose families make $200K or less
Harvard will begin offering free tuition to students who come from families with annual incomes of $200,000 or less, the Ivy League university based in Cambridge, Massachusetts announced on Monday.
Gov. Tim Walz Made Minnesota a 'Sanctuary State' for Illegal Immigrants, Providing Free Health Care and College Tuition
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, whom "border czar" Kamala Harris chose Tuesday to be her running mate, made the North Star State a sanctuary haven for illegal immigrants, providing them with free health care, college tuition, and driver's licenses, the New York Post reported. Since becoming governor in 2019, Walz has signed several pieces of legislation that cater to illegal immigrants at the expense of the American taxpayer, including access to state-funded health care, free college tuition, and driver’s licenses for the millions of illegal migrants who have entered the county...
Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% of Americans have confidence in higher education
Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college, with most saying they feel the U.S. higher education system is headed in the “wrong direction,” according to a new poll.
Overall, only 36% of adults say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, according to the report released Monday by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation. That confidence level has declined steadily from 57% in 2015.
Biden administration extends deadline to consolidate old student loans
More than 3.5 million student loan borrowers who received funding under a defunct private program will have more time to consolidate their loans if they want to qualify for a one-time initiative that could wipe out their debt, the Education Department said Wednesday.
Borrowers with federal loans that originated through the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL) will have until June 30 to consolidate, 60 days more than originally planned, the Education Department said.
Tuition now costs a whopping $90,000 a year or more at some US universities
The price of getting a degree has continued to climb at American universities, with the cost of some schools reaching a new threshold. It's leaving many wondering if it's a good investment.
Schools like New York University, Tufts, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale are pegging the total cost of university attendance — which covers tuition, housing, food, supplies, books, and more — for the 2024-25 school year at over $90,000, according to their websites.
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
America needs more plumbers, and Gen Z is answering the call.
Long beset by a labor crunch, the skilled trades are newly appealing to the youngest cohort of American workers, many of whom are choosing to leave the college path. Rising pay and new technologies in fields from welding to machine tooling are giving trade professions a face-lift, helping them shed the image of being dirty, low-end work. Growing skepticism about the return on a college education, the cost of which has soared in recent decades, is adding to their shine.
Gen-Z is shunning college to take up traditional trades like welding and plumbing they say is far more satisfying and which doesn't incur huge student debt
Increasing numbers of Generation Z are opting out of college and turning to vocational schools with hopes of higher wages and avoiding student debt, data shows.
Young people who came of age during the pandemic said they have been deterred from four-year universities by high tuition and the prospect of student debt.
Instead, they are attending trade schools and are being enticed by well-paying job opportunities and satisfying work.
Why religious schools just won big — again — in front of the Supreme Court
For the second time in three years, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of religious schools seeking access to public education money in a decision that will further complicate efforts to keep religious organizations from receiving state funds.
Justices in the majority said that a Maine law limiting the participation of faith-based private schools in the state’s unique public education system violated the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a recent streak of victories for religious interests, striking down a Maine tuition program that does not allow public funds to go to schools that promote religious instruction.
The vote was 6 to 3, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. writing for the majority and the court’s three liberals in dissent.
It was the latest case in which the court came down on the side of religious interests when weighing the Constitution’s protection of religious exercise against its prohibition of government endorsement of religion.
Supreme Court rules Maine tuition aid can’t exclude religious schools
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a state tuition assistance program, the latest case signaling the conservative court’s shift on religious freedom and separation of church and state.
The 6-3 opinion, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., found the program unconstitutional because it provided vouchers parents could spend at private or public schools but excluded schools with explicitly religious instruction.