When he donated 500 billion won last month, Chung Mong-koo, chairman of the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, one of the world's largest carmakers, said "his heart ached" when he heard of the plight of college students who struggled with the burden of academic loans.
In dozens of corporate conference rooms turned into temporary classrooms, engineers retrained as teachers collaborate with academics on loan from various universities.
Entrepreneurial providers starting new higher ed ventures built on different business models, such as offering à la carte courses, often face accreditors focused on traditional input requirements like "seat time" in class and faculty PhDs, rather than outcomes like academic success or loan default rates.
An extended period of research training will suppress earnings for several years, and the lower salaries characteristic of academic medicine make loan repayment much harder.
Davis' bio on her website states that she paid for her tuition at Texas Christian University and Harvard Law School through "academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants," Slater's piece says that Jeff Davis, Wendy's second husband, "paid for her final two years at TC U.
There are growing fears among academics about the student loan system, despite unpopular changes in 2011 that involved tripling tuition fees for students.
Full Sail has generally been regarded more highly than many other institutions in the for-profit college industry as a whole, which has been the target of withering criticism in the last few years in the wake of federal investigations into fraudulent marketing practices, poor academic records and huge loans assumed by students ill-prepared for the expensive programs.
It looks at the changing landscape of interlibrary loans within academic libraries and suggests that closer collaboration between departments and increased patron interaction benefits everyone.
Her second husband helped pay for her final two years of college and her Harvard education, a fact omitted from her campaign website, which mentioned only academic scholarships and student loans.
It afforded him a roomy one-bedroom apartment in Westwood, of all places, on the edge of Beverly Hills, and on top of paying way through his final year at the University of Southern California, it repaid - despite a full-ride academic scholarship - the loans he took out in his first three.
He dropped out after four weeks with an entire academic quarter's worth of loan debt, no degree, and of course no job.
