SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2009. We’ve all seen the Rankin-Bass claymation story of Rudolph’s Shiny New Year featuring Happy, the big-eared newborn with the top hat symbolic of the new year. But what will the baby’s parents do when they discover that a child born today is projected to incur college costs of more than $180,000 at a four-year, public university?






