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Colleges are trying to get students to make a course correction

"The most effective way to limit costs is to limit time toward a degree," said Ronald Berkman, president of Ohio’s eighth-largest public university with almost 18,000 students.

Cleveland State University made a proposition to its students two years ago: Take a full course load of 30 credits a year and get $200 off tuition and a $200 book stipend.

Only 32 percent of its undergraduates finished a degree within six years, if at all. Hundreds of students were slipping through the cracks as the cost of college went up and up — and they took on thousands of dollars more in debt.

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/colleges-are-trying-to-get-students-to-make-a-course-correction/2015/02/27/3f253906-9dce-11e4-96cc-e858eba91ced_story.html

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