Princeton University has decided not to raise its tuition for the upcoming year 美國普林斯頓大學已決定將不增加學費，為即將到來的一年 , the New York Times reports. ，紐約時報的報導。 Room and Board will still increase 4.2% to $10,980.食宿費用仍會增加4.2 ％ ， 10980美元。

University officials said the strong performance of Princeton’s investments, which earned almost 20 percent last year, helped pave the way for the decision, along with generous donations by alumni and an increase in the size of the student body.大學官員說，股市表現強勁，普林斯頓大學的投資，從而贏得了近百分之二十，去年幫助鋪平道路，以便決定時，隨著慷慨捐贈校友和增加規模的學生團體。 Officials said a decision by trustees’ to spend more of the endowment, which totaled about $13 billion in June, also helped.官員說，決定由信託人花更多的捐贈，總額約130億美元，今年6月，也有幫助。

Hmm… strong investment performance, eh?哼…強烈的投資績效，嗯？ Where do I recall hearing about我在哪裡記得聽 another endowment getting really, really good returns 另一養老越來越真的，真的好回報 ? ？

Princeton’s provost, Christopher Eisgruber, who heads the university’s priorities committee, said in a statement today that the committee was “delighted that the university’s financial circumstances allowed the trustees to approve its recommendations for addressing highest priority needs.”普林斯頓大學的provost ，克里斯托弗eisgruber負責人，大學的次序委員會，在一份聲明中說，今天說，該委員會"非常高興看到大學的財政情況允許受託人批准其建議，為解決最優先的需要" 。

The committee’s recent report said that making higher education accessible to all qualified students was one of its considerations and that Princeton’s tuition increases had been “at the bottom end of the university’s peer group” in the past 10 years.該委員會的最新報告說，實現高等教育的機會向所有符合資格的學生，它的一個考慮因素，以及普林斯頓大學的學費上漲了， "在底端大學的同儕團體"在過去的10年。

Apparently Williams froze tuition in 2000-2001, but otherwise I don’t see too many places being particularly friendly about the ever-raising costs of attendance.顯然威廉姆斯學費凍結在2000-2001年，但除此之外，我看不出有太多的地方被特別友好約不斷提高的成本列席。 GWU gwu has a nice plan in place which locks tuition in place on a per-student basis, set when they first begin attending, and guarantees institutional aid won’t decrease.有一個好的計劃，其中包括鎖學費到位，以每名學生的基礎上，設置時，他們首先開始參加，並保證機構的援助不會減少。

This comes, interestingly enough, at the same time as the release of a UCLA study about financial burdens leading people away from 1st choices.這個時候，有趣的是，在同一時間，作為釋放了加州大學洛杉磯分校的研究財政負擔，引導人們遠離第一選擇。 AP wire, via鴨絲，經 NYT紐約時報 . 。

Many students are settling for their second- and third-choice colleges, at least partly for financial reasons, a new survey says.很多學生解決他們的第二代，第三選擇的高校，至少部分是因為經濟原因，一項新的調查說。 The study, by the Higher Education Research Institute at the研究中，由高等教育研究所在 University of California加州大學 , Los Angeles, surveyed more than 271,000 students at 393 colleges and universities. It found 32.7 percent of freshmen at a college other than their first choice. ，洛杉磯，接受調查的超過27.1萬的學生在393個高校， 它發現32.7 ％的新生，在學院以外，他們的第一選擇。 Almost half of those at their second choice had been accepted at their first. 幾乎一半的那些在他們的第二選擇，已被接受在其第一次。 Of the students accepted at their first-choice university who did not enroll, a third said they could not afford it. Other reasons included geography and athletics. 該學生接受他們的第一志願的大學沒有招生，三分之一的人說他們無法負擔得起。其他原因包括地理和田徑。 [emphasis mine] [著重地雷]

Tuition costs won’t stop me from going to Yale, but they won’t make it any easier, either.學費成本將不會阻止我前往耶魯大學，但他們不會使它更容易，無論是。 We got reminder-flyers in our PO boxes this week about filling out the FAFSA.我們得到提醒高材生，在我們的郵政信箱這個星期約灌裝出fafsa 。 I wish the higher education scene could take a closer look at costs for students, particularly middle class students, rather than squeezing more money out to pay for quite lovely expansions of programs.我想高等教育現場，可以採取仔細看看成本為學生，尤其是中產階層的學生，而不是榨取更多的金錢來支付相當可愛，擴建項目。 It’s not fair to justify this just by saying “lots of this money goes to financial aid!” because tuition isn’t quite the sliding scale certain income taxes are (or could be).這是不公平的理由，這只是說： "許多人，這錢的去處，以資金援助， "由於學費是不太滑尺某些入息稅（或可能） 。 If a third of first-choicers couldn’t attend because of cost, that’sa problem.如果第三方首次choicers不能出席是因為成本， that'sa問題。 In the age of 4 billion dollar capital campaigns, when is it enough to take a step back and look at the burden these tuition raises are putting on students who don’t fall to the income extremes?在年齡的40億港元資金運動，當它足以考慮退後一步，看看在負擔這些學費提高卻是把對學生的不屬於該收入兩極？

It was nice to see the House do some我很高興地看到房子做一些 good student loans work好助學貸款工作 this past week (Miller’s moustache looked great on CSPAN; we watched the vote come in) but it was too bad that the Bush administration also過去這一個星期（米勒的鬍子來看看就cspan ;我們看著投票來） ，但它太不好說，布什政府還 saw fit to continue subsidizing認為應該繼續補貼 a student-loans company that was and is defrauding the American people.學生貸款公司表示，過去和現在都是訛騙美國人民。 Can’t win ‘em all.不能贏得想要的一切。