The most recent federal budget signed by President Bush slashed tuition assistance by almost thirteen billion dollars.
A similar approach must be taken – slashing tuition fees for engineering courses and providing bursaries to help with living costs.
A handful of smaller, private colleges, however, has slashed tuition; officials at Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., recently decided to lower tuition by 9% next year.
Yet colleges have little incentive to be leaders when it comes to slashing tuition or reducing the time to graduation, Weinstein said — and not because campuses would suffer financially.
William Peace University, a women's college with 700 students in North Carolina, slashed tuition nearly 8percenttoto attract men as it becomes co-educational, and to increase its enrollment by 50percentt.
There has always been a gulf between students who take an active interest in politics and those who couldn't give a monkey's, but when university and college funding is being slashed and tuition fees tripled, even the politically apathetic need good representation.
Across the country, stories are emerging about the dramatic ripple effects of sequestration, from air traffic towers being closed to scientific research being slashed, from tuition assistance for military personnel getting suspended to Head Start programs being gutted.
Their response, not surprisingly, was to raise tuition, slash course offerings and, in some cases, freeze or even reduce student enrollment.
Aaron Porter, its president, said: "Attempts to triple tuition fees, slash education budgets, and remove the EMA [the education maintenance allowance] from poorer college students whilst pulling the plug on Aimhigher will give further cause to those who believe this government wish to restrict education to a narrow elite".
