In responses to the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of colleges are discounting tuition, freezing tuition hikes and implementing other measures that will reduce costs for students in the coming academic year. While marketed as responses to student financial setbacks, a significant driver of these changes is concern that students will not enroll for the 2020-2021 school year. The University…
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My apologies to anyone who tried to access my event on Facebook yesterday. The short story is, the stream went to the wrong place and when you’re in the middle of a live interview there isn’t much you can do to change that! The recording is available here so you can watch it at your convenience. (The part where I…
I hope that everyone is home, safe, and washing their hands a lot! Yesterday we learned that bacon is not being hoarded, at least not in Portland, when out of the blue we got a notification that several week-old online grocery delivery attempts were going to be filled. The one item that was not out of stock in any of…
If I had an FAQs page, one of the top questions would be, “Why pay the higher expense ratios in 529 plans when there are so many low-cost, tax-efficient investments available?” It’s certainly true that you could construct your own portfolio and then have the added bonus of not worrying about whether your child will attend college or not. However,…
Two pieces of legislation that impact college were approved towards the end of 2019. Each has some components that may be of interest.