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Families await sharpest tuition
increases in years
by JUSTIN POPE - AP Education Writer, The State
COLUMBIA, SC - Most high school seniors and their families have not made final college plans for next fall.
But they know this: It's probably going to cost more than they had planned.
Even in good economic times, states and colleges have largely failed to hold tuition increases in line with inflation. Now as the slumping economy forces states to slash spending, students can expect the sharpest increases in years.
Families are calling on colleges to absorb as much of the burden as possible instead of passing the extra costs on to students.
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College could be new PDBy Justin R. Lessman, Jackson County Pilot
JACKSON, MN - The police department at the college?
Maybe, says Jackson Mayor Mitch Jasper.
Jasper this week confirmed preliminary talks between the city and Minnesota West Community and
Technical College's Jackson campus with regard to the possibility of relocating the Jackson Police Department inside the west-edge center of higher learning. |
ATLANTA, GA - The college town of Athens, a music
haven that launched the careers of R.E.M., The
B-52s and countless others, attracts hundreds of
students to its well-worn bars each weekend.
Now it's the focus of a legal challenge before the
Georgia Supreme Court that targets a local noise
ordinance designed to crack down on all the
after-hours racket. The lawsuit claims the law
restricts free speech and flies in the face of the
town's deep music roots.
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Reauthorized Noise Citations Lead to Arrest Record, Fine
WASHINGTON DC - University officials announced Wednesday in an e-mail to all students that the Metropolitan Police Department officers have been reauthorized to issue 61D citations to students for excessive noise violations off-campus.
According to the university e-mail, "Anyone who receives a 61D citation will be required to pay a fine, but most importantly, will have an arrest record. This record will appear on employer background checks."
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Tenant-landlord center opens to help with disputes
By Kevin Cirilli,Collegian Staff Writer, The Daily Collegian
STATE COLLEGE, PA - The Tenant-Landlord Mediation Center is available for Penn State students beginning today, marking UPUA's first program of the spring semester.
"The Tenant-Landlord Mediation Center was something [UPUA Vice President] Valarie Russell and I campaigned on," said University Park Undergraduate Association President Gavin Keirans. "We're pleased to see it come to fruition."
The center will allow students who live off-campus to seek free advice and consultation from UPUA
advisers when dealing with off-campus housing disputes with their landlords.
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As the University of Michigan taketh, Ann Arbor
city wants it to giveth
ANN ARBOR, MI - When it comes to expanding its campus, the University of Michigan usually pursues a strategy that flies under the radar: Every year, it buys
one or two small properties, often rental homes near campus that have seen better days.
That strategy got overrun in mid-December when the university announced the most dramatic expansion of its campus in 50 years - its pending purchase of the 177-acre Pfizer Inc. property in northeast Ann Arbor.
With that purchase, the long-running town-gown debate on whether thetax-exempt university contributes enough to the city's bottom line is being
re-energized. The university will face greater pressures to contribute more to defray the city's
costs of providing services.
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