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Free Community College

January 27, 2015 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

Well Snowmageddonpocalypse means a day of lolling, cooking and pondering, including noddling down some thoughts regarding recent discussions about free community college for all. Well, not “all” exactly.  But the proposal from the White House that’s been bandied about (one that was mentioned during the recent State of the Union address) wants to translate the aspirational […]

Flogging Higher Education – A Response to Eugene Linden

December 1, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

I’ve always been a sucker for tales involving getting rich (sort of) by flogging low-production printed matter to rubes. This interest started when I learned about the early days of the exploitation film industry, during which itinerant showmen would go town to town renting theatres for short screenings of films that promised (but rarely delivered) […]

Ivory Tower – Revisiting the Cost of College Debate

November 25, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

Now that CNN is broadcasting the documentary Ivory Tower (a film I saw in the cinema and reviewed last summer), I wanted to revisit the cost-of-college series I wrote earlier this year so that anyone interested in the questions Ivory Tower raises will have some alternative theories to chew over. Fortunately, I recently discovered a […]

Cost of College – Top 5 List

October 6, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

This entry is part 13 of 13 in the series Cost of College

After a holiday hiatus, I thought I’d wrap up this Monday series on the cost of college with a look at what some reasonably priced (albeit not free) alternatives to a traditional residential degree program might include. While the Internet and the culture of open access that accompanied it has certainly made possible the notion […]

No-Cost College Alternatives?

September 22, 2014 By DegreeofFreedom in Filed Under: Cost of College

This entry is part 12 of 13 in the series Cost of College

Before looking at some of the more radical alternatives to a quarter-million dollar, four-year degree at a fancy college or university, it’s worth noting that the vast majority of post-secondary students have already opted for more affordable options. These include four years at a large (and subsidized) state school, two years at a community college, […]

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