A Free College Education For All

A free college education for all? The UoPeople experiment is testing the free education model today. If it is successful, it will spread more or less rapidly, and even if that particular effort fails it will only be a few years before somebody tries again. So I am not presenting a radical vision for the distant future, but rather describing something that is happening now or very soon. A (nearly ...

MSOE to offer free master's degrees

At a time when college students are facing rising tuition and heavy loan debt, the Milwaukee School of Engineering has decided to give away master's degrees.

Online course start-ups offer virtually free college

An emerging group of entrepreneurs with influential backing is seeking to lower the cost of higher education from as much as tens of thousands of dollars a year to nearly nothing. These new arrivals are harnessing the Internet to offer online courses, which isn’t new. But their classes are free, or almost free. Most traditional universities have refused to award academic credit for such online ...

A Free Private, Liberal Arts College Education

I've never heard of anything like this, but I love it. Antioch College in Yellow Spring, Ohio, is offering free tuition to the next three incoming classes to enroll.

Slab City: Living Off the Grid in California's Badlands

"Chicago" Joe Angio and his wife Anna did everything by the book to secure their slice of the American Dream. They earned college degrees, started a small business, bought a house and pair of cars, paid their taxes and credit-card bills on time. But when the economy tanked, so did the dream. Between two jobs they could barely pay their mortgage, reaching a point where they had to choose which ...