Enough beating around the bush.  Show some gumption and Share Your Magic-Bullet Solution for Lowering the Cost of College.  And when you’ve made your comment, forward a link to your friends and family members, so that they can react to your suggestion and make one of their own.  Let’s get this idea party started.

Price increases at both public and private colleges and universities again outpace inflation by a significant margin while students and their families again wait for the answer to a simple question - why? For too long, parents have grimaced and borne the high price of college because they presume that a higher education is key to their child’s success in today’s economy. Surely, the day will come - soon - when parents say enough is enough. Has that day come yet for you? Please share your thoughts on trends in college pricing by leaving a comment below.

Please share your child’s student aid success story so that your fellow parents can benefit and learn from your family’s experience. Just click here to leave a comment and tell your peers how federal student aid, including loans, makes your child’s college education possible.

Today’s release of the College Board’s annual report on tuition and student aid demonstrates that colleges and universities still don’t appreciate the tremendous financial burden that they are placing on America’s families. I issued this statement in reaction to the College Board announcement, and I encourage you to post your comment, both to the College Board announcement and to my statement in the Empty Wallet section of this blog. Your Comments in “Hoverings: A Blog for Current and Future College Parents” are always important to us and they help to stimulate a healthy dialogue among you and your peers. Please visit the blog to see the wide range of topics that are drawing peer comments.

The Empty Nest section of our blog struck a chord with many of you, eliciting dozens of Comments from parents who miss terribly their child(ren) who are away at college. Today, we add a new section to our blog called Empty Wallet. In this section, we encourage you to share your stories about how you are confronting the college cost challenge. Whether you are the parent of a soon-to-graduate college senior, a college-hopeful middle schooler, or somewhere in between, we encourage you to share not only your concerns, but also your ways to address the problem of how to pay for college. Other parents can learn from your successes and failures, so please enter your Comments. Thank you and best wishes to you and the current and/or future college student(s) in your family.