Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Things to Read
In today's Times. The nation's public universities raised tuitions by 14 percent this year, the steepest increase in at least a quarter century....
Private universities raised tuitions by 6 percent, itself not an unusual increase in recent years. But after adjusting for inflation, 2003 was the third consecutive year that private universities raised tuitions by at least 5 percent, more than twice the rate of inflation.
The last time a series of comparable increases occurred was in the mid-1980's, when families were enjoying a much healthier economy than they are now.
As a result of the increases, tuitions reached an average of $19,710 at private colleges, $4,694 at public universities and $1,905 at community colleges, more than twice what these institutions cost 20 years ago, even after adjusting for inflation.
From the Invisible Adjunct and Michael Yglesias, there's this anti-Catholic article in Slate. Let's get Hitchens fired.
Also, an article on Jamie Oliver, the babe of the Food Network. He talks risotto and naps. I'm in love.
In today's Times. The nation's public universities raised tuitions by 14 percent this year, the steepest increase in at least a quarter century....
Private universities raised tuitions by 6 percent, itself not an unusual increase in recent years. But after adjusting for inflation, 2003 was the third consecutive year that private universities raised tuitions by at least 5 percent, more than twice the rate of inflation.
The last time a series of comparable increases occurred was in the mid-1980's, when families were enjoying a much healthier economy than they are now.
As a result of the increases, tuitions reached an average of $19,710 at private colleges, $4,694 at public universities and $1,905 at community colleges, more than twice what these institutions cost 20 years ago, even after adjusting for inflation.
From the Invisible Adjunct and Michael Yglesias, there's this anti-Catholic article in Slate. Let's get Hitchens fired.
Also, an article on Jamie Oliver, the babe of the Food Network. He talks risotto and naps. I'm in love.
