Purdue recruiting more out-of-state students
Purdue and other universities are among many state-funded institutions nationwide looking to poach lucrative tuition.
Purdue and other universities are among many state-funded institutions nationwide looking to poach lucrative tuition.
When adjusted for inflation, students are paying more than triple what students paid 30 years ago to attend a public, four-year institution.
The trustees' approval means students who entered Purdue University in the fall of 2012 will never see an increase in tuition.
Purdue University trustees this week are expected to consider President Mitch Daniels' request that they freeze tuition on the main campus in West Lafayette for a third straight year.
But in an interview with IBJ, ITT Educational Services CEO Kevin Modany asserted that for-profit colleges are a good deal, that they produce better results than community colleges, and that they are critical for the state and nation to close the skills gap among workers.
Roughly 37 million people in the U.S. are saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, a factor contributing to the widening of the gap between rich and everyone else in the country.
The shoppers, who were hired by the Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges, generated the bulk of the material cited in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s complaint.
Gov. Mike Pence announced Monday that Indiana is one of three states selected to lead a national initiative aimed at ensuring more college students graduate on time and with less debt.
Mitch Daniels said he plans to call on Purde trustees to extend the two-year tuition freeze for one more year as part of a push to make the university more attractive and affordable for families.
Big budgets used to rule in college rankings. But that could be changing. A new report from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education is the latest effort among several nationally to score universities on their bang for the buck.
The former governor wants to change the rules of higher education. But first he must convince skeptical professors that his plans aren’t just politics, but actually good for Purdue.
The 20,000-student school says the increase approved Thursday is the lowest at Ball State in 37 years.
The trustees of financially strapped Ivy Tech Community College have approved raising tuition by $5 per credit hour each semester for the next two years amid efforts to close a $68 million budget shortfall.
IU President Michael McRobbie told trustees meeting in Indianapolis that the 1.75-percent hike was the lowest tuition increase possible while ensuring world-class educational opportunities for students
Supporters say the change would help a couple of hundred students who had the rules changed on them after they had already started work on their college degrees.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels on Monday eliminated merit raises for administrators earning more than $50,000 annually over the next two years in the first in a series of cost-cutting moves to cover the estimated $40 million cost of freezing tuition rates through 2015.
A bill making its way through Indiana's General Assembly would change the laws governing need-based state financial aid to add more requirements for students.
The freeze means the cost of basic in-state tuition at Purdue University will remain about $10,000 until the end of the 2014-15 school year.
Colleges are experimenting with business models at a time when the ability of students and their families to pay are dropping dramatically, and endowments and scholarship funds remain depressed.
Indiana University students who graduate within four years could pay less tuition than those who take longer under a plan unveiled by President Michael McRobbie.