Have you taken the College Cost Survey?
College Cost Central is a new subsite set up by the 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee of the House of Representatives to explore the expanding cost of a college education.
America's higher education system is facing a crisis. Decades of dramatically increasing costs, in both good economic times and bad, are threatening to push the dream of college out of reach for millions of students and families. Led by 21st Century Competitiveness Subcommittee Chairman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, Republicans on the Education & the Workforce Committee have pledged to hold colleges accountable for these dramatic increases to help keep college affordable.
There is a place on the site to take a survey and let our lawmakers know exactly how you feel about the current state and costs of higher education before they reauthorize the Higher Education Act later this year.
Comments
This "survey" really tips the hand of the legislators opposed to hr 2711. There are two loaded questions at the end of the survey that ask people taking the survey whether they want to devote student loan funds for new students or continue to subsidize people who have already had the benefit of two loans. This is the argument SallieMae, Dallas Martin, and Buck Mckeon are advancing--Consolidation loans are federal subsidies that take money away from needy students.
Posted by: RB | February 17, 2004 08:36 AM