Loading... Accessibility Information and Tips Revised Date: 07/2011Back 1 article(s) will be saved. The link information below provides a persistent link to the article you've requested. Persistent link to this record: Following the link below will bring you to the start of the article or citation. Cut and Paste: To place article links in an external web document, simply copy and paste the HTML below, starting with "<a href" To continue, in Internet Explorer, select FILE then SAVE AS from your browser's toolbar above. Be sure to save as a plain text file (.txt) or a 'Web Page, HTML only' file (.html). In FireFox, select FILE then SAVE FILE AS from your browser's toolbar above. In Chrome, select right click (with your mouse) on this page and select SAVE AS Record: 1Title:For Colleges, 'Free' Is About Much More Than Money. Authors:CAREY, KEVIN1Source:Chronicle of Higher Education. 7/18/2014, Vol. 60 Issue 41, pA23-A24. 2p. Document Type:OpinionSubject Terms:*TUITION -- Universities & colleges *FINANCE *HIGHER education -- Costs *EXPERIMENTAL methods in education *EXPERIMENTAL colleges COOPER Union for the Advancement of Science & ArtAbstract:The article presents the author's reflections on free college education in the United States. The author begins by discussing the controversial decision of the New York City-based Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art to raise its tuition. The meaning of "free" in the context of college is discussed. Conclusions are then offered noting that while free college educations can have disadvantages, the alternative model of heavy student debt is worse.Author Affiliations:1Director of education-policy program, New America FoundationFull Text Word Count:1182ISSN:0009-5982Accession Number:97104203Persistent link to this record (Permalink): http://ezproxy.mc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=97104203&site=ehost-liveCut and Paste: <A href="http://ezproxy.mc.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=97104203&site=ehost-live">For Colleges, 'Free' Is About Much More Than Money.</A>Database: Academic Search PremierFor Colleges, 'Free' Is About Much More Than Money Views THINK TANK ON ASTOR PLACE in Lower Manhattan, you can stand on a street corner and see, for higher education, the power and fragility of the word "free." To the right stands the Cooper Union Foundation Building, a steel-reinforced Italianate brownstone that has, since 1859, been home to Peter Cooper's vision of a college, "open and free to all," providing a world-class education in architecture, engineering, and the arts. For over a century, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art has inspired fierce loyalty in graduates who excelled because of, not in spite of, the university's egalitarian spir ...