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Student Survey Highlights The Burdens of Textbook Costs
A COD student’s recent survey results not only highlight the wider issues students face from college textbooks, but also the push for a zero-cost textbook initiative at the college.
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Some experts have a new idea to help students afford college: more federal loans
Raising the limits could avoid indebting parents and forcing students to work while in school