Why It’s Time to End College Accreditation
…order to be hired in the first place. Still, students can learn a lot about colleges through magazine rankings or from data provided by the U.S. Department of Education on…
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Ten Things Destroying American Higher Education
America’s colleges and universities are in trouble: falling enrollments, declining public support, even the beginnings of a decline in our dominance in international rankings. While many factors are at work,…
Open Season on College Presidents As Faculty ‘Mobs’ Wield Power
…Forbes financial rankings of 927 colleges, Mount St. Mary’s was one of 107 colleges to receive the D grade—ranking 888th out of 927 in terms of the balance sheets and…
Why College for All Is A Big Mistake
…a college degree, and to place many college graduates in jobs that don’t actually make use of the substance of their college education.4 That leads to a positional arms race:…
Same Old College Rankings—What Did You Expect?
Shocking news: the new Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education college rankings say that Harvard is the best school in the United States. So does Forbes in its rankings, while US…
More Bad News about College
…is particularly relevant here. When the Association of American Colleges & Universities commissioned a poll of college students and employers that focused on the latter’s workplace readiness, an astonishing gap…
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…
2017 US News Top Ranked Colleges
…Middlebury College (VT) (tie) Swarthmore College (PA) (tie) Bowdoin College (ME) Carleton College (MN) (tie) Pomona College (CA) (tie) Claremont McKenna College (CA) (tie) Davidson College (NC) (tie) Top Public…
A Big Campus Trend: Ignorance of U.S. History
…• Over one-third of the college graduates surveyed could not place the American Civil War in its correct 20-year time frame. Nearly half of the college graduates could not identify…
Why Not Use Endowments to Lower Tuition Costs?
…of endowment income goes directly for research. Not all schools behave the same way. Berea College, in relatively poor Appalachian Kentucky, uses its endowment to essentially make college free, foregoing…
Here’s Why Tuition Keeps Rising
…funding or increases in faculty compensation or college aid budgets, colleges often feel justified in raising tuition. But colleges raise tuition regardless of what happened to state funding, faculty compensation,…
College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…“College Scorecard.” I took advantage of the online interactive system to see how well Haverford College alumni stack up in the race to achieve financial stability. The new College Scorecard…
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…
How Our Universities Are Failing Us
…and more students are being sold an increasingly expensive product that neither their professors nor the deans and presidents of their colleges can even begin to define. College for All…
A Surprising List of Top Ten Colleges
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology? SUNY Maritime College? Yes. They are among the top ten “value-added” U.S. colleges likely to increase a student’s lifetime earnings, according to a study, “Beyond College…
Obama’s Tentative Plan for College Ratings
…had difficulty even figuring out a college’s sticker price or the percentage of students on financial aid. Now college rankings are everywhere: the challenge today is in determining which are…
What I’d Add to College Rankings
Americans are competitive people and therefore obsessed with rankings, even geeky ones. Higher ranked colleges attract better students and more grants. Rankings might even push administrators to focus more resources…
Goucher to Applicants: No High School Transcript, No Problem!
…and hence their selectivity and U.S. News rankings, and those who thought that colleges were reaching out to a population of applicants who could not afford an SAT or ACT…
The Times Tries a New College Ranking
…Many of those colleges have not matched their words with actions.” If, as the editors at the Times certainly hope, college is going to be the great equalizer, then colleges—especially…
US News Rankings: Not Quite Ho-Hum
…top 50 or top 100 or top 200 in bulk and compare them to two-year colleges, second- and third-tier state universities, and liberal arts colleges with no national or even…
Higher Ed Innovation Experts or Wishful Thinkers?
…a small student body, Haverford will still be able to provide its students with opportunities less well endowed colleges cannot provide. While Payscale’s value rankings are not dispositive, Haverford is…
Getting What Students Pay For In College
…institutions discussed in this report raised their tuitions 31% after adjusting for inflation. That is even higher than the nationwide average for public four-year colleges, which was a 27% increase….
How About Post-College Exams?
…their reputation as measured by magazine rankings suggests? I am particularly interested in these questions because I DO college rankings (for Forbes) and know that given large information gaps that…
The ABA Feels the Heat
…reality, they were chagrined because they had seen their schools’ U.S. News rankings drop because of lackluster placement rates). So the bar was lowered (pardon the pun) by extending the…
The Wrong Way to Fix Higher-Ed
…no increase in fundamental academic skills are four years of college. It is unclear, however, that the President’s proposal would actually increase accountability. The President’s rating system would consider graduation…
The Problem with College Rankings
There are a number of college rankings. Of course, the best known by far is the U.S. News& World Report ranking, which for many people is the college ranking. (This…
A Closer Look at President Obama’s Higher-Ed Plan
…University Professors, seemed to sneer at the fact that colleges ought to compete with one another: “I think that colleges will be looking at ratings – looking at who’s getting…
Obama’s Higher-Ed Plan Asks for More Government Control
…myriad college rankings systems and does so efficiently. The Forbes-CCAP college rankings provide many of the outcome-based metrics proposed by Obama, so the government system would provide very little marginal…
Stanford Is Number One, Pomona Number Two
The ratings season has begun. Forbes has just released its Best College list (full disclosure: the Center of College Affordability and Productivity, which I direct, does the rankings for Forbes)….
Why Ed Schools Are Useless
At many large universities with an undergraduate college of education, the education school is regarded by students and faculty alike as the weak link, sometimes something of an embarrassment. None…