AI’s Higher Ed Takeover Is Not Inevitable
…could be. As a college writing teacher, I’ve worried about it myself. But I don’t believe the demise of higher education at the hands of AI is necessarily inevitable, and…
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The Senate Can Strengthen Student Loan Accountability—Here’s How
…system are: (1) how are college programs evaluated and differentiated, (2) what metrics are used, and (3) how are thresholds determined? How are college programs evaluated and differentiated? The purpose…
The UC System Is Risking National Security with China—It Must Cut Ties
In California, there is a three-tiered system of public universities. The California Community College (CCC) System serves as the foundation and feeds into the California State University System (CSU). This,…
Want to Fix the Culture? Start by Reforming Counseling Accreditation
…Western culture defines as good mental health. When the definition of ‘good mental health’ comes to include things that are objectively not true or impossible in enlightenment-based cultures, that’s when…
A Very Short History of American Universities, 1636-2025
…more affordable, the return on college investment was perceived high, new low-cost public colleges were formed, and, in some cases, an increasingly affluent student population found college to be more…
Republicans Stand on the Brink of a Historic Opportunity to End Government’s Role in Student Loans
…pay for college out of savings or current income. For these students, borrowing student loans to enable a college education that leads to a higher-paying job is a good investment….
A Budget and Business Forecast
…under our noses. A former business professor of mine, and vice president of the college I attended, never let his students forget a simple fact: colleges are businesses. Though a…
Federal Student Loans Drive Up College Tuition Levels
…all taxpayers—including those who did not attend college at all, or who attended college without the benefit of loan financing, or who attended college on loans and have now repaid…
Don’t Let Colleges Keep Ducking Accountability on Student Loans
…we use a government-as-lender system—and the college. A good student loan system would align the incentives so that no party can benefit by making the others worse off. Unfortunately, our…
Is Accreditation a Scam? The System Fueling Ideology in Higher Ed
…university. This is bad news for students and parents in a world where college has become big business. Most colleges and universities are also nonprofits, and some of them are…
Foreign Strings Attached
…to American Universities, the latest report by the National Association of Scholars (NAS), written by Neetu Arnold, unearths some staggering truths about unreported foreign gifts to American colleges and universities,…
Higher Education Subsidization: Part 3 – Federal Subsidies
…in Pell Grants, colleges reduce institutional aid by 12¢—this figure is 67¢ at selective non-profit colleges and 5¢ at public colleges. Thus, colleges capture some Pell Grant funding at the…
Top of Mind: On Personal Finance
…name and email. Student debt is “good debt.” It’s an investment, recruiters say. But, as seen in the case of Jennifer Atkins, a first-generation college graduate who earned three degrees,…
Some of These Institutions Need to Die. But They Won’t.
…that day, he bought so many shares and got so far into the red that we got calls from a third investment bank, the one that capitalized us. Soon the…
The Potted Plants of Higher Education
…getting a good return on their investment? A bill—Senate Bill 506—narrowly passed the Virginia legislature but, at this writing, unsigned by the Governor, seems to explicitly state that the trustees…
No Borders: Higher Education Enables Illegal Immigration
…lower tuition than out-of-state Americans. One such entity is College Board, a not-for-profit, “diverse team of talented professionals dedicated to making college dreams come true”—fancy. They help advise undocumented students—among…
Academia’s Wealth Stratification Drives the Decline in Reporting Endowments
…University Professors, College Board, Common Data Set, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the Council for Independent Colleges, the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service, the Military Friendly Schools, Peterson’s, the…
Reassessing Liberal Arts Teaching
…of higher education has led many students and families to prioritize programs that offer a clear return on investment, such as those in STEM fields or business. The rapid pace…
The Pampered Pets of Big Science
A couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post reported on the shattered career of “renowned AIDS researcher” Jeffrey Parsons, a psychologist who spent most of his career at Hunter College…
The University-to-Policymaker Pipeline under Biden
…the People for failing to toe the party line on climate change. She has since proposed the establishment of a National Investment Authority that would make Papa Stalin proud. Cecilia…
North Carolina’s Best and Worst Degrees
…City State University are just a few of the underperforming programs which are potentially on the chopping block. [Related: “Good News on College Affordability”] Readers might notice that legal programs…
A Guide to the Perplexed
…all white people are bad, that all black people are good, that “indigenous” tribes in the developing world are more noble and wise than city dwellers, that “gender” is a…
Administrative Bloat and Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness
…college increased so drastically, necessitating burdensome debt that sometimes takes decades to pay off? Indeed, from 1971 to 2021, the cost of attending a private college increased at some 4.6…
The Tip of the Racist Spear
…billion to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and $192 million to Tribal Colleges and Universities. This was on top of the department’s investment of nearly $1 billion in grant…
The Logical and Rhetorical Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness
…than average to attend college since they are more liquidity-constrained (unless they disproportionately enroll in lower-cost colleges where there is less need to borrow). If increasing the number of high-needs…
NAS by the Numbers
…size, a grow rate of 434% in four years. We proudly continue the tradition of investment success founded by Thales, the first speculator. Money in the bank is good, but…
I Just Made My Last Student Loan Payment—Here’s How to Improve the System
…the investment to repay the loan—there is a good case to be made that a traditional loan repayment schedule is not a good fit for student loans. Traditional loans like…
Data-Driven Accountability is Coming to Higher Ed
…Many “everyone should go to college” advocates tirelessly repeated the mantra that college graduates earn an extra $1 million over their careers (the true value after accounting for the cost…
Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
…and White Fragility is being discussed on college campuses nationwide. She’s in-demand, and for some reason, administrators are more than willing to pay her $12,000 speaking fee. DiAngelo often describes…
The Long March to Educational Reform
…teach literacy and numeracy, not wokeness. While the status quo is not good for American K-12 education, it does, however, present opportunities for hundreds of financially troubled colleges and universities….