SAVE MONEY ... Avoid the Financial STING of Paying for a College Education!

Author: Dr. Robert Ronstadt

Get educated about financing a college education from "academic insider," Dr. Robert Ronstadt. "Surviving the Tuition Travesty: How to Avoid the Financial Sting of a College Education" is a much-needed book for any student or parent of the college-bound. Clearly written and easy-to-understand examples, "Surviving the Tuition Travesty" explains why colleges throughout the United States are charging far too much money for a college education. He provides dozens of tips and tricks for students and parents looking for an affordable education.

Table of Contents

Part One: Yesterday's Story: How Things Were Before We Lost our Way; How Will I Ever Pay for Collect? The Way Things Are Today; It's a Trillion-Dollar Crisis that Affects Everyone; Focusing on the Right Things: the Elements of Learning

Part Two: The Unfulfilled Promise of Financial Aid

The Troubled Waters of Financial Aid; Numbers That Lie: Why Financial Aid is Misleading and Unfair; How Financial Aid has Become an Albatross of Debt; Today's Shame: Financial Aid is an Instrument for Price Discrimination; An Unfulfilled Promise: Financial Aid Has Become a Complex, Intrusive System that Poses Ethical Dilemmas for Studuents, Parents and Universities

Part Three: Coping With the Existing System: 61 Ways to Maximize Value and Minimize Actual Costs

Find Low Tuition-High Value College Programs; Don't Lose Sight of all the Other Costs Besides Tuition and Fees; Avoid Paying More than you can Afford; Determine Which Community Colleges are (are not) Your Low-Cost Answer; Make Sure you are Buying Value, Not Fluff; Remove the Uncertainty About What you will pay; Avoid Hidden Costs; Adopt a 9-point Plan to Copy with the Existing System

Part Four: What Students and Parents Must See Happening: Solutions that End the Tuition Travesty

What the Solutions Must Achieve for Students; A New deFacto National Policy: Declining Tuition and Fees; How Taxpayers can reverse The Tuition Travesty - But Not End it; How Generating Alternative Revenues can end The Tuition Travesty: The Special Role of Alumni and Donors; A Different Way to select a college: What students and parents should see happening; Moving from Financial Aid to Dedicated Funds for Tuition Remission

Part Five: Overcoming the Tuition Travesty and Ending The Shame ... Recognition, Remembrance and Redemption

The Rest of the Book: Calculating the Income and Tax Losses of NOT Graduating with a Bachelor's Degree; Calculating the cost of a college education - 55 costs you will pay before, during and after college; Federal Grants; Federal Loans; Who is an Independent Student, and why it matters! Phone Numbers and Websites for State Grants and Loans; Useful Websites.

About the Author Dr. Robert Ronstadt earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a master's degree from the University of Oregon, and a doctorate from the Harvard Business School. A lifelong teacher, Dr. Ronstadt has held faculty and administrative positions at Babson College, Pepperdine University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Boston University where he served as Vice President. At the University of Texas, Dr. Ronstadt was Director and Fellow of the IC2 Institute, which focuses on innovative education, technology commercialization, entrepreneurship, and regional development. During the late 1980s, he ran a software company, returning to the academic world as Pepperdine University's first Professor of Entrepreneurship.