Anne Campbell Quotes

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of the middle class.

Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

The cost of a college degree has skyrocketed out of control.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.

Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.