Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
Two weeks have passed since a student mob shouted down visiting lecturer Charles Murray at Middlebury College, injured a professor, and jumped up and down on Murray’s car. But college…
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Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…put far more young people through college. The most venerable such effort is a report that the College Board puts out every three years entitled College Pays. Here is the…
Can We Save Public Universities?
…universities. Between 1980 and 2012, college tuition and fees increased more than ten-fold in nominal terms and 4 or 5 times in inflation-adjusted terms. College tuition and fees increased during…
College Students Get Special De-stress Therapy After Trump Election
…Health Services will also be available. We have sent out messages through our Social Media sites as well as encouraging students to drop in all week. Above all, take good…
The University as Nursery
…investment in the overall college experience (and less focus on coursework). Hence the emphasis on “community.” It’s a word nearly all my colleagues, even the most liberal ones, wouldn’t use…
College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…former Philadelphia College of Pharmacy), and so on. Other Planet Money lists focus on colleges that emphasize upward mobility and colleges that leave students with “little debt and good financial…
Academic Work May Not Be Worth Your Time or Effort
…attend college would likely focus their studies on subjects with an immediate return on investment. Lower tuition costs, perhaps dramatically lower at some institutions, would still enable impoverished students eligible…
A Conservative Path to Higher Ed Reform
…colleges and college ratings. And now people hear about the free-college proposal and they say oh, that is free college and what does that have to do with regulation? Well…
We Have Too Many Colleges, So Cut Federal Funding
…number and in the volume of students. Now that it is becoming evident that a college degree isn’t necessarily a good investment and for many is a terrible waste of…
How Our Universities Are Failing Us
…A college education is now deemed one of those prizes that, if good for a few, must therefore be good for all, even if no one in a position of…
WHY ELITE STUDENTS GET ELITE JOBS
The conventional meritocratic recipe for success is simple enough: study hard in school, get good grades, be involved in one’s community, find an appropriate college, apply for jobs in your…
WHY MILLENNIALS CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
Completing a college education, people have long presumed, shows that a young adult has not just mastered a particular subject but has broadened his or her intellect by exposure to…
What’s An Ivy League Education Worth?
It’s mistake to conclude that “where you go to college is of almost no importance.” Even if they don’t offer the royal road to intellectual or professional success, elite colleges…
Why Obama’s College Plan Is Doomed to Fail
…Longitudinal Data in Education Research, in their report “America’s College Drop-Out Epidemic: Understanding the College Drop-Out Population,” estimates that “about a third of four-year college drop-outs would have had a…
Obama’s Tentative Plan for College Ratings
When the White House released the outlines of its long awaited college ratings plan on Friday, the world of higher education was underwhelmed. Colleges are “a little mystified,” Sarah Flanagan…
The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine?
…good investment, to rumors that it might not necessarily be, to hard data showing how unlikely it is that a graduate from a law school will find a law-related job…
Stanford Divests–and Entangles Itself
…college boards of trustees across the country to prune their institutional portfolios of investments in fossil fuel companies. So far, few colleges and universities have signed on. Harvard has…
Good Data Not Good for Bad Colleges
…would be upset. Better student data will help disabuse people of the higher education establishment’s well-cultivated notion that college degrees are necessarily a good investment. Many non-NAICU college and universities…
Four Ideas for Higher Education
…financial assistance program has enabled colleges to raise fees: “these hiked tuition rates….form a free subsidy for colleges…which use the funds to finance a myriad of non-academic pursuits.” Rubio proposes…
Can We Save Higher Education?
…go to college is economic–and, at any rate, that’s the main way college is sold, as an “investment”–then there are a lot of people graduating from college now for whom…
The Sorry State of Hamilton College
On the evening of 19 September, about two weeks before the scheduled appearance of Hillary Rodham Clinton as a “Great Names” speaker at Hamilton College, members of the Hamilton College…
The Washington Post Oversimplifies The Value of College
…it?” gets wrongly conflated with “should everybody go to college?” Matthews writes: So does college raise incomes? Is it an investment good enough to make widely accessible? Yes, it is….
The Universities Are Major Lobbyists Now
…millions more were spent by trade associations representing groups of schools. The Association of American Medical Colleges, for example, spent $2,210,000, and the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities…
A Wretched Defense of the Humanities
…humanities. This is one of the report’s immediate goals, phrased of course in the financial imperative, “Increase investment in research and discovery.” The report as a whole is presented as…
One Way to Improve the Higher Education Act
…Grants for remedial coursework. “A huge proportion of this $40 billion annual federal investment,” Petrilli writes, “is flowing to people who simply aren’t prepared to do college-level work. And this…
What Will Convulsive Change Do to Our Colleges?
…The Erosion of the Labor Market for College Graduates The view that college graduation provides a near-guaranteed ticket to a prosperous middle-class life style conflicts with the reality of today’s…
How the Koch Boys Could Save American Higher Education
…suggest a better investment–establish an undergraduate college heavy on the humanities and social sciences (including economics) that recruits only top students. (David Koch took a step in this academic direction…
The Unacknowledged Value of For-Profit Education
Originally run as a Manhattan Institute Policy Brief. The growth of student-loan debt has raised a vexing question: Is a college degree still a good investment? No segment of American…
Let’s Listen to Those Scary Tales about Student Loans
…and benefits of college. But the current trends of student loan defaults and recent graduate underemployment show us that everyone has been underinformed about a college investment. The media spotlight…
Gary Becker Wrong to Say College Is Still a Good Investment
…barista or a bellhop. Let’s stop telling those young people that going to college is a very good investment. For many, it’s not an investment at all, but merely an…