Intimidation-Produced Silence at Stanford
Back in the late middle of the last century I attended Stanford for my last three years of college and my last three years of graduate school. Since then I…
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When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…is only tangentially about college campuses. This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilization, and it’s spreading. College campuses may be the first dramatic battle but of…
How Many Colleges Will Go Under? Will Yours Be One?
…condition of schools varies considerably: there are affluent ones with large cash reserves, billions in investments in their endowment, and robust demand for their services, while other schools are worried…
Should We Believe Whatever a Woman Says About Sexual Assault?
…percentage of your capital, whether or not their advice is any good and whether or not your earnings beat the market. The investment industry has vigorously opposed laws that require…
The College Endowment Tax: A Good Idea, Sort of…
Starting next January, some 35 very wealthy private colleges and universities will start paying an annual 1.4 percent college endowment tax under the new tax reform law. That’s very few…
Is Half of College Education Wasted?
…majors. Wasted learning, predictably, is fine arts, psychology, journalism and the Liberal Arts more generally. All and all, judged by the distribution of college majors in 2008-9, 40.5% of college…
Taxing the Campus Plutocrats
One provision in the new tax legislation is going to give scores of colleges and universities a lot of heartburn –the 21 percent federal excise tax on compensation of employees…
The Case for Taxing College Endowments
…emphasizing publicly traded stocks and bonds. The traditional view is that investments supporting public institutions should emphasize risk minimization more than wealth maximization. Exotic hedge fund investments in the Cayman…
What the Tax-Reform Law Could Do to Higher Education
…their sons and daughters off to expensive colleges that have low “returns on investment.” The other principal way that colleges and universities entice people to enroll at high prices for…
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…
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…