K-12 Enrollments Continue Fall: Major New Priority Setting

Will colleges and universities be next (or continuing the falling numbers of past few years) in major declining enrollment?  We should make sure we see numbers that reflect what the Michigan "resident" numbers are when they release their enrollment numbers this Fall.  Are they balancing their budgets with out of state students and their high out of state tuition?  K-12 does not have the ability to do this!  K-12 districts do not have the ability to raise taxes--called tuition--on its students.  Let's watch the in state versus the out of state student numbers this Fall. 

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/education/2015/08/16/michigan-enrollment/31834901/

Student Debt May Now Be Counter Productive--Preventing Degree Completion?

http://www.demos.org/blog/6/19/15/student-debt-has-gotten-counterproductive-and-unequal

Feds Aid To Higher Ed Grows While State Aid Declines/Slows

This development is very important to students and parents as they try to fund their child's higher education and not leave them with a school loan the size of their parents first home mortgage.  There needs to be more transparency on how University boards of trustees/regents set tuition rates and how they monitor salary creep. http://www.routefifty.com/2015/06/pew-higher-education-funding-states/115129/?oref=rf-today-nl

Cost Of College & Excessive Student Debt

This is an educators view/opinion.  Asks college leaders how they can do "this" to a generation of students.

http://bit.ly/1Esewa2