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Monday, October 22, 2007

Snapshots from Home:

GW's New President
Already Saying
All the Right Things





'University President Steven Knapp said he plans to lower GW's tuition, saying it negatively impacts the University's image and leaves students piled in loans, in his first address to the Board of Trustees Friday.

"I am personally not happy with seeing this institution at the top of the list of price," Knapp said at the meeting of the University's highest governing body.

Without taking GW's fixed tuition policy into account, GW is the most expensive private institution in the country. Knapp spoke about the impact of negative media attention that linked GW's decreasing U.S. News and World report ranking with the University's increasing cost.

... "(The price) leads to the dangerous perception that we're costing more than we're worth," Knapp said.'




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