Idea Bank: Improving accessibility and affordability

4/11/13
Offer classes during the summer.
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**Posted by the MIT Alumni Association on behalf of barbkanter@gmail.com.**

I think you should make it easier to graduate in 3 years by offering classes during the summer. There would be lower...

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4/10/13
Affordable MIT education
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By any plausible metric (tuition adjusted for inflation, ratio of tuition to family income, ratio of tuition to compensation for new MIT graduates), the cost of an MIT education has skyrocketed over the past generation. Yes, there is assistance for...

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4/7/13
Want bold students? Replace tuition with an income commitment
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Fixed tuition costs burden students with debt and cause them to make poor long term choices. I know too many people who have taken jobs (and eventually, careers) that they don't love because they feel the pressure of their student loan debt. These...

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4/5/13
Re-thinking College Education
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I am writing as an alum, an employee at Lincoln Laboratory, and as a parent with 5 children--all of whom hope to afford college.

The information age has been defined by technology improving the ability to communicate and understand information...

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4/4/13
"CostCo University"
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I would model my proposed college, which I call “CostCo U”, after a law firm. Just as senior lawyers own the firm and delegate out various administrative responsibilities, I would have a college where faculty own the institution, and administrators...

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4/4/13
Is there a better way to share experts knowladge
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Through my academic and medical life I observed that the subject matter experts are not necessary the best teachers or speakers.

We have the opportunity to transform the academic experience of the students and the faculty if we give each one...

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4/4/13
Expand the Yellow Ribbon Program
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The GI Bill only covers 45% of current tuition, and currently the voluntary involvement with the Yellow Ribbon program amounts to a meager 18% of tuition for students in Sloan School of Management, and Urban Planning and Studies only. Students with...

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4/4/13
edX satellite campuses in major cities
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The edX model has a lot of promise for the future, but so far it does not completely replace an on-campus MIT education. I see at least three crucial areas where the on-campus approach still holds a major advantage:

1) Student-to-student...

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4/3/13
Graduate all students debt-free
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MIT should commit to ensuring that its students can leave the Institvte debt-free.

The cost of higher education is skyrocketing at a rate much faster than inflation, while median incomes are stagnating. MIT's tuition and costs, which have...

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4/3/13
not very MIT-like
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There's something very non-MIT-like about edX. It's not just the fact that it's online education. OpenCourseWare, with its simple interface and quirky grad classes sprinkled among the .00n favorites, felt like a grassroots movement to democratize...

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