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• Colleges Should Charge Differently for Different Classes
• Online startup seeks to rival the Ivy League
• College Students (and a 4-Year-Old) Pepper Sprayed Protesting Tuition Hike
• Should colleges charge more for popular classes?
• Arizona governor signs law to bar medical marijuana at colleges

Colleges Should Charge Differently for Different Classes Posted: COMMENTARY | The Week has been pondering the acceptability of differential pricing for college courses. Specifically, should more popular courses be more expensive to help ease overcrowding? While proponents argue this is an acceptable way to keep class size manageable, critics say higher tuition rates for popular classes bar the poor and working class from taking necessary college classes. ...

Online startup seeks to rival the Ivy League Posted: (Reuters) - Former Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson has two years and $25 million to transform higher education. The 36-year-old executive, who has run the Snapfish photo-sharing website and the Redbeacon home-maintenance site, said this week that he had landed $25 million in seed money for an audacious new venture: creating an elite global university online. From scratch. The Internet already teems with online universities, both private and public, respected and questionable. But Nelson is betting the world could use a brand-new model. ...

College Students (and a 4-Year-Old) Pepper Sprayed Protesting Tuition Hike Posted: A Board of Trustees meeting at Santa Monica City College turned chaotic on Tuesday night when protesting students were pepper sprayed, indoors, by police trying to control the unruly crowd. Among those caught in fracas was a four-year-old girl who was at the protest with her family and was hit in the face by the pepper spray.

Should colleges charge more for popular classes? Posted: A California school comes up with a novel way to avoid overcrowded lecture halls, but some worry that the plan favors the rich

Arizona governor signs law to bar medical marijuana at colleges Posted: PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona's Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed into law on Tuesday a bill to ban medical marijuana from being used on the campuses of state universities and community colleges in the latest salvo in a long-running battle over legalization of the drug. Arizona's move to bar the drug's use on campus is the latest in a drive to roll back laws legalizing the therapeutic use of marijuana, which remains classified as an illegal narcotic under U.S. federal law. ...

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