Joseph Urgo, president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, on the effect of its bidding wars with other colleges, in which it offers ever-higher levels of merit aid to lure top student candidates:
“We’re wasting billions of dollars nationally competing for kids. But we can’t stop it.”
Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
Alex Friedrich