Adult Basic Education is a Basic Right is a collaboratively authored by researchers and educators in the adult education field in British Columbia. Our aim to gather and share information about how ABE tuition cuts and adult education policy in BC effects people, programs, depending inequity and socio-economic participation.
Read Lynn Horvat’s paper: “Re-Framing the Conversation: Respecting Adult Basic Education in British Columbia”
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The Chronicle: Maryland Approves In-State Tuition Break for Undocumented Students
Maryland will become the 11th state to extend in-state college-tuition breaks to illegal immigrants under a measure state legislators approved late Monday, the Baltimore Sun reported. The bill will enable undocumented students who have attended Maryland high schools for at least three years, and whose families pay state taxes, to pay cheaper in-state tuition rates at community colleges. After completing 60 credit hours, students could transfer to a four-year state college, also at the in-state rate. Gov. Martin O’Malley is expected to sign the measure into law on Tuesday.
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MARCH 4TH WALKOUT AT NEW SCHOOL – 11.30AM
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In response to a 33% tuition increase at Public Schools across the State, and the brutal suppression of Student Protest, California students have issued a call for a Strike on March 4th. This call quickly spread across the entire country. Students, but also faculty and workers, are set to suffer as a result of State Education Budget cuts, which will lead to larger class sizes, fewer scholarships and decreased opportunities. Folks are also suffering as banks, despite being funded heavily with public bailout money, deny loans to struggling students.
At New School, tuition is set to increase by around 5%, or $3000, at a time when many students can hardly afford lunch. Administrators routinely draw six figure salaries; tuition money is funneled to a building we’ll never see. That insane despot Bob Kerrey has retreated to his Ivory Tower, muttering about transforming the New School into the University of Phoenix, an online-only for-profit institution. His career is over. But the struggle isn’t.
New School was founded as a college for working adults, giving many who never had the opportunity to go to school the chance for an education. Its faculty and students are committed to changing the way our world works; free emancipatory education is a necessity. It’s time for the administration to get with the program.
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Announce the walkout in all your classes through the week, via blackboard etc.
Meet at 11.45am outside 66 West 12th Street, we’ll be heading uptown to join the main demo etc.
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Los Angeles Time: Parents in California Start to Mobilize Against Tuition Hikes
The budget crisis afflicting California State University could not have come at a worse time for Berenice Vite and Rafael Curiel, whose son Alonso is a sophomore at Cal State Long Beach. As the university was imposing a 32% student fee hike this year, Curiel underwent two shoulder surgeries and lost his job at a medical equipment firm.
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The Chronicle: U. of California Regents to Consider 32% Increase in Tuition
The University of California may raise its undergraduate tuition by 32 percent by the fall of 2010 to replace sharply declining state support. The tuition proposal, which the system’s Board of Regents plans to discuss at a meeting next week, would raise resident undergraduate student fees by $585 in the spring semester of this academic year and by an additional $1,344 next fall. The university’s professional schools may also turn to unusually large tuition increases to make up for state budget reductions.
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Mail & Guardian: One step closer to free varsities
Free education for poor university students moved sharply up the government’s priorities last week with the announcement of a ministerial committee to advise Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande on how to provide it.
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News & Observer: Protest stops Tancredo’s UNC speech
CHAPEL HILL — UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.
Hundreds of protesters converged on Bingham Hall, shouting profanities and accusations of racism while Tancredo and the student who introduced him tried to speak. Minutes into the speech, a protester pounded a window of the classroom until the glass shattered, prompting Tancredo to flee and campus police to shut down the event.
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Globe and Mail: Tuition attrition? Reposition
At Guelph, students are protesting because the university has cut women’s studies and ecology. At the University of Toronto, they’re outraged because the downtown campus is about to charge full-time fees for lighter course loads. York University has just survived a brutal strike by teaching assistants and contract faculty. And as everyone freezes hiring, PhDs have become a glut on the market.
This is just a taste of things to come. As endowment and pension funds shrivel up, Canada’s universities are facing a challenge they haven’t had since the mid-1990s: budget cuts. “It’s a perfect storm,” says education consultant Alex Usher, who figures that endowment funds alone have taken a $2-billion hit.
For the past few years, the postsecondary sector has enjoyed automatic funding increases of 5 per cent to 10 per cent a year. Now, some places will have to cut back 15 per cent over the next three years.
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Denver Post: Tuition backers vow to press on
The fight over whether to allow in-state tuition for high school students whose parents came to the United States illegally isn’t over; it’s just beginning.
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Star-Telegram: Free-tuition proposal advances in Texas Legislature
AUSTIN — The House approved an amendment to a bill Tuesday that would give free tuition to children of military personnel when one or both of their parents are deployed in combat overseas.
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BBC: Universities push for higher fees
Many universities in England and Wales want a sharp increase in tuition fees, a survey by BBC News has concluded.
Two thirds of vice-chancellors, speaking anonymously, said they needed to raise fees, suggesting levels of between £4,000 and £20,000 per year.
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Daily Mail: New threat to the middle classes: Universities’ plan to double student fees could leave millions in debt into their 50s
Tuition fees could be more than doubled under a blueprint to be put forward by universities today.
Some students would find themselves with debts of £50,000 they could be paying off into their 50s.
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Daily Mail: University heads win 9% pay rise as they call for student fees to double
Nottingham University boasted the highest paid vice-chancellor with Professor Sir Colin Campbell, with £585,000
Nottingham University, above, boasted the highest paid vice-chancellor
University heads won a nine per cent pay rise to £194,000 last year.
Vice-chancellors enjoyed the ‘ exorbitant’ pay rises at a time when they are stepping up calls for a rise in tuition fees.
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Evening Standard: £300,000 for university chiefs but they want student fees to go up
UNIVERSITY vice-chancellors were condemned today for taking home huge pay rises as they demanded the power to charge students higher tuition fees.
In London, three vice-chancellors were paid more than £300,000 during 2007/08 after receiving what critics called “exorbitant” increases.
Five university leaders in the capital made it into the top 10 in the UK vice-chancellors “rich list”, compiled by the Times Higher Education magazine.
Across the country, the average pay rise for vice-chancellors last year was nine per cent taking salaries to an average of £194,000.
The details emerged two days after vice-chancellors called for undergraduate tuition fees to be doubled to £6,500 a year. They claimed that without more funding degree courses would have to be cut and Britain’s status as a world leader for research and education would be put at risk.
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southcoasttoday.com: UMass hikes fees amid student uproar
DARTMOUTH — Ignoring the signs, persistent chanting and occasional outbursts of about 150 student protesters, the UMass Board of Trustees overwhelmingly voted Friday to raise student fees by $1,500 for the next school year.
The 12-4 vote during a meeting on the Dartmouth campus raises the annual cost for a full-time, in-state undergraduate at UMass Dartmouth to $10,358, a jump of 17 percent. System-wide, tuition and fees for in-state undergrads will rise, on average, from $9,548 this year to $11,048 in the upcoming academic year.
The Chronicle News Blog: California Legislation Would Tie College Executives’ Pay to Tuition
San Francisco — A California lawmaker is proposing to prohibit raises for executives at the state’s public colleges and universities in years that they raise tuition.
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