on 40 schools in the state using an online test preparation program by the company Study Island.

commercial education companies that are scrambling to ensure a steady stream of college-level students despite the credit squeeze. Some of the companies want to offer college loans themselves.

where they want to send one-tenth of the incoming students to a year of social service work in a foreign country before they set foot on campus as freshmen.

I actually like this idea. A great way to spend your “gap year” if this is the college you really want to go to.

then a double-digit tuition increase can still occur due to the 50 million in state funding that they are not going to get.

that a new set of colleges could be created that would educate as many as 45,000 students in 20 years.

flocking to a cheaper Masters Degree program. The degree program was created through a novel public-private partnership between Lamar University, a state school in Beaumont, and a company run by Dallas entrepreneur Randy Best.