ENCORE: Should Students (or Their Families) be Forced to Pay College Tuition for Other Students?
Tuition set asides leaves some students accruing debt to pay for other students to attend school.
For decades now, thousands of Iowa's public university students have been paying part of the tuition for peers. Are they paying hundreds of dollars more each year toward another student's bill because they are altruistic? No. It's because they have no choice. "I had no idea that the Iowa Universities were diverting tuition dollars," a constituent wrote to State Rep. Jeff Kaufmann, R-Wilton, who shared the letter. "I have two kids at the (University of Iowa). It is rather upsetting that my kids as well as my wife and I are borrowing money to pay for their tuition at the UI and some of that tuition is being diverted to other students." Call for Comment: Should students be forced to pay for other students to go to college. Weigh in in the …
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Maria Houser Conzemius
9:12 am on Sunday, May 20, 2012
Ms. H, thanks for your compliment! We're hoping Sarah's job as a student environmental systems analyst will lead to a good job once she graduates in environmental sciences. I was so proud of her when she got her hardhat, steel-toed boots, Carrhart jeans, and gas mask. I've always told her not to go into a female-dominated profession, which is what I did, twice. more ›