The report, entitled “Beyond the 49th Parallel: Affordability of University Education,” states that in spite of higher tuition fees, American universities are more affordable because of the increased financial aid that U.S. students receive.
“Tuition is a small percentage of money in education,” said Sean Junor, an analyst at the EPI.
The data, which was collected up until 2001, shows that the average total cost of attendance for a Canadian university student ($8,336 a year) is lower than in the United States, where the average student can expect to shell out over $10,000 a year.
Where the U.S. outperforms is in the amount of grant money and financial assistance available. In 2000-01, the Canadian government spent an average of $955 per student on grant aid, while U.S. students were provided with an average of $1,562 ($1,288 US).
From the web page:
http://www.umanitoba.ca/manitoban/2005-2006/0329/2701.u.s.post-secondary.education.more.affordable.than.canada.american.study.php
Note: http://www.umanitoba.ca...
U.S. Post-Secondary Education More Affordable Than Canada: American Study
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it, the very least you could do is notify the author of the piece. And you <br />
certainly shouldn't chop large portions of it, altering the balance and original <br />
feel, without the author's permission. <br />
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You left a link to The Manitoban, which isn't actually the original source; <br />
they're allowed to use it though, because they PAY to belong to the Canadian <br />
University Press, one benefit of which is the right to use The Cord's articles.<br />
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Here's the original article, from the newspaper that Adrian Ma actually works <br />
for, before its chop job: <a href="http://www.cordweekly.com/content/view/731/50/">http://www.cordweekly.com/content/view/731/50/</a><br />
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Carly Beath,<br />
Former Opinion Editor<br />
The Cord Weekly
Since we have *not* posted the entire thing, and we have *not* claimed that it is the full article, and we *have* provided a link to a full and complete version of said article, your argument sounds rather like a complaint that the author's thoughts are being widely read. I'm not entirely sure what you find offensive about that, but if the author feels *that* strongly about it, we will gladly pull the excerpt and refrain from giving them any more free readership in future.
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"Beer Garden'? You mean, a real garden of beer? I thought they only had those in Canada!" --Largo
However, you can see who sent the message and they have a point that since the original is in the Cord, then it's odd to link it to a university paper who has taken it from them. However, keep in mind that the study certainly wasn't done by the Cord either, which means they are 'stealing' the information from the organization doing the study. Which essentially in the webworld is exactly what we want to see.
is what they're intended for, and taking the text of someone's article and putting
it on a website.
I understand the idea behind the website, and using excerpts. The problem here
is that it's not very well executed. If you see the article on the front page, there's
a link that says "Read More" which leads to the article on another page on your
site. Nowhere does it say that it's only an excerpt; it says, "From the website..."
which doesn't necessarily let people know that there's <i>more</i> to the
article on that website. Not everyone is going to click on the link to find that out.
If Manitoba Online 'chopped' up the article then that should be taken up with them. This site operates in the way the moderator says, linking to stories that are not readily available. It's not plaguarism as the poster here makes no claim to have written it, and links his source. Again, what's the problem? In fact, since "The Cord" is a free student newspaper, it would be silly to talk about 'paying for it', because there IS no way to pay for it. If there were, then that student editor would be in a lot of trouble. If newspapers (and books) functioned that way then there would be no information out there.
If somebody had just cut and pasted the article and claimed it was their own, then that's a different story, but we're far from that situation.
The original article must have been some time ago, because I couldn't find it at The Cord's website, so it makes sense to link to an article that at least exists. Moderators and posters here have a living to make, unlike students, and don't have time to make such searches. No doubt it the original had been found, they would have linked to it.
As it is, much ado about nothing. If people think this is 'stealing', all I can say is 'get used to it'. Because that's pretty much ALL this website does, and kudos to them for doing it.
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"Beer Garden'? You mean, a real garden of beer? I thought they only had those in Canada!" --Largo
If moderators and posters don't have the time to actually check up on the things they post, or for that matter, to even include proper citations, then maybe they should think twice about posting.