Tuition

Protestors made their voices heard at Lansing Community College Monday night.

A daylong rally by City University of New York students against a planned tuition increase turned turbulent Monday evening when marchers ignored police requests to clear the lobby of a building where the university’s trustees were meeting and 15 people were arrested.

As outrage mounts over campus police's use of the chemical against seated, nonviolent protesters, Linda Katehi tells more than 1,000 students and faculty members she feels 'horrible for what happened.' The school's police chief is placed on administrative leave.

It has become something of an annual tradition on California college campuses, in what is perhaps the most prestigious state university system in the country: the state makes large cuts in public universities, they in turn raise tuition, and students respond with angry protests.

The state of Michigan and its public universities are cheating the public — the owners of higher education and government — out of an affordable education.

The trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted to approve a proposal that would raise annual in-state tuition by $2,800 over the next five years.

New Hampshire is, and loves to be, first. We fight for the first-in-the-nation primary and proudly tout our standing on lists like “healthiest state” and “safest state.”

This week's decision by California State University trustees to raise tuition by 9 percent had the feel of a backroom vote and should be reconsidered next month, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom told the CSU leadership Friday.

Thanks to exchange agreements, more college students crossing state lines are getting large tuition breaks

Police in Long Beach used pepper spray to clear protesters disrupting the meeting with chants of 'we are the 99%.' But the board voted to raise tuition by about $500 for the next school year.