This is the month of college graduations in New Jersey. Rutgers graduated 14,000 in the rain on Sunday. It’s the largest class in the school's 247-year-history.
Immigrant youth and their allies are gathering in front of the State House in Trenton today to push for "tuition equity," specifically legislation that would allow undocumented immigrant students who have grown up in New Jersey to pay the same tuition rates as other NJ high school graduates.
The cost of higher education continues to grow. The College Board says the sticker price of in-state tuition at four-year public universities climbed an average of roughly $400 this fall to $8,655, an increase of nearly 5 percent.
It’s probably never been tougher or more expensive to go to college in New Jersey. The tuitions keep going up, , as do student loans, , and even the credit card companies are getting into the act. In some cases credit card debt outpaces student loan debt.
College is expensive. That's nothing new, but families across New Jersey and the country are taking a different approach to paying for the continually rising costs of higher education.
New Jersey is one step closer to finding answers as to why it's becoming increasingly expensive to obtain a college education. The Assembly Higher Education Committee has approved a bill which would establish a Commission on Higher Education to study and make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature about the rising tuition costs in New Jersey.