• Universities use tuition to pad bank balances

    Universities use tuition to pad bank balances0

    Parents and students having to pay higher tuition and fees at Kansas universities might be surprised to know that $18 million of what they paid last year was used to pad university bank balances.  That’s the collective net increase in General Fee Fund cash reserves reported in response to Open Records requests submitted by Kansas

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  • Media Ignores Facts, Excuses University Tuition Hikes

    Media Ignores Facts, Excuses University Tuition Hikes1

    The annual ritual of universities making sad-faced announcements of tuition increases and blaming them on state funding cuts took place last week. And in keeping with tradition, media abandoned basic journalistic principles and basically functioned as the Regent’s press office. Media didn’t question whether university tuition increases could be partially or fully avoided (they can)

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