September 9, 2005

Study Suggests Ways to Preserve Access to College Despite Soaring Costs

By SARA HEBEL

Participants in a series of focus groups about the rising cost of attending college have agreed that the nation could best manage the problem by finding ways to reduce the time it takes students to earn bachelor's degrees and by pursuing a public-information campaign about student-aid programs, according to the Lumina Foundation for Education, which sponsored the research project.

People in the forums, which were held in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, included college and

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