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Keeping costs down: strategies that could work.(STATS WATCH)
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University Business
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June 1, 2008
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WITH 60 PERCENT OF COLLEGE finance officers reporting that they spent more time in the past year compared to the previous one thinking about affordability and accessibility, and the vast majority expecting tuition rate increases to continue outpacing inflation, it's no surprise that these institutional leaders have thought about what specifically might be done to keep costs down.
These were findings of a survey conducted by Independent 529 Plan of finance officers in its participating colleges and universities. They were asked which of several cost containment strategies proposed by The Center for College Affordability and Productivity, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, ...
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