Our Economic Times: Higher Education Policy

Document Type

News Article

Publication Date

9-18-2013

Publication Title

Savannah Morning News

Abstract

This column was published in Savannah Morning News.


Attaining higher education is inextricably tied to one’s future earnings capacity and increases the nation’s productivity as a whole. Alas, tuition levels at historic highs present financial challenges to many families and lead to an average of $26,000 of debt per student for successful graduates. There are, however, value-oriented paths to higher education available in the form of state colleges and universities whose tuition levels are considerably less than that of private and out-of-state institutions...

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