Sunday Roundup: O Canada, Scary Suitemates
It might be time to take a cue from Canada: Hate on the country all you want, but it looks like they’re doing something right. Enrollment figures collected by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada show that the number of full-time undergraduate students increased by more than 4 percent, with full-time graduate enrollment up more than 7 percent. The combined total increase was 4.6 percent — the highest the country has seen in six years.
Meanwhile … An article in The New York Times reported that tuition at American four-year colleges and universities continues to rise. According to a report issued by The College Board this week, four-year public colleges increased tuition and fees by an average of about 6.5 percent in the past year, and the same costs at private colleges rose by almost 4.5 percent. Those increases brought the average price for tuition, fees, room and board to $15,213, the Times reported. At private nonprofit colleges, which the Times says enrolls one in five college students, the average annual cost is now $35,636.
Next time, just do the dishes: Something must have gone awry in a suite at California State University at Sacramento this week, where police responded to a student allegedly beating his suitemate with a bat. The student died, and his attacker is in the hospital recovering from gunshot wounds inflicted by police when they responded to the suite.
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