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SUNY Students Say While Tuition Increases Are Not Wanted, They Might Be Necessary
The Buffalo News reports that after polling students via an online survey, The SUNY Student Assembly, a representative body for all 64 campuses in New York State, came out with harsh words for Governor Cuomo but they weren’t directed at the 10 % cuts to SUNY budgets. Instead it was the absence of modest tuition hikes students representatives say are necessary to soften the blow in lost aid to Higher Ed institutions
“SUNY students think this is unwise,”
NYS Welfare Recipients Win A Battle In The Fight For Equal Access to Education
A group of about 20 people met in the backroom of the Black Bear Lounge in late June to listen to Maureen Lane from Welfare Right Initiative speak about her efforts to promote “Access to Education for all”. Over the course of an hour we were given the short history of a movement predicated on the principle that making higher education opportunities available to those who need it most is our best weapon for reducing welfare dependency and providing… Read More
Is Higher Ed a H.M.O’s Biggest Fan ?
On the Times Economix blog, Uwe E. Reinhardt suggests that higher education and heath care might have similarities that inform the health care debate. Reinhardt was on a panel of policy experts during the 1980′s that made recommendations on how Congress should pay physicians who handled Medicare patients. He notes that doctors felt that the H.M.O model did not compensate physicians appropriately for their services.
He then moves on to dissect the doctors’ argument by… Read More
