In the News: Akande on Families and Tuition; Rishe on Penn State Football

Recent news media coverage of Webster University includes:

The cost of college tuition jumped 15 percent between 2008 and 2010, according to the Department of Education and last year, 40% of states cut higher education spending. St. Louis Fox affiliate Fox2 KTVI’s Randi Naughton turned to Benjamin Akande, dean of Webster University’s George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology, to discuss different options students and parents can look into to help them pay for college. Watch the discussion here.

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Penn State’s football program generates a lot of revenue — Forbes ranked it the third-most valuable program in both 2010 and 2011. But with recent scandals hitting the program’s reputation and causing sponsors to pull out, that ranking is likely to fall. How far? In its coverage of the program, the Times-Leader out of Wikes-Barre turned to Webster University sports economics expert Patrick Rishe for insight.

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