Should We Pay Students to Graduate?
…so embarrassing that some universities have resorted to paying their students to graduate on time, typically via forgiven loans, tuition discounts, and scholarships for those maintaining a full load of…
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College Cost “Window Stickers”
…the DOE should focus on the real reasons that students take on so much debt – easy access to federally backed low interest loans – instead of sidestepping the issue….
A Proposal to Let Bankruptcy Discharge Private Student Loans
…of a similar policy for government loans.” And here’s another point: Even students who take out federally-guaranteed student loans first often need private loans also when they reach the cap…
National Review Fumbles on Student Loans
…Higher Education Act of 1965, the federal government provides loans to students attending both traditional colleges and vocational schools. An influx of students into “non-traditional” institutions would reduce neither students’…
Elite College ($50,000 a Year) or Good State School ($20,000)?
…large, in the era before massive federal student loan programs and also smaller private scholarship offerings, the demand for college was highly elastic–people were extremely sensitive to price. In, say,…
You’re Wrong About Ashford, Andrew
…revenue from federal student loans and grants, the huge washout numbers suggest, at worst, churning for tuition dollars, and, at best, the reckless admission of hopelessly unprepared students who then…
The 12 Reasons College Costs Keep Rising
…expanding federal student financial assistance programs have pushed up college prices, so the gains from student aid accrue less to students than to the colleges themselves, financing an academic arms…
The Higher Ed Bubble–Not as Big as You Think
…with enormous student loans. For what? Why is college so expensive? Well, some blame the self-indulgence of overpaid and underworked tenured faculty. (No study could show, however, that pay for…
Uh-Oh–The First Loophole in Student Loan Debt
…disabilities, ranging from diabetes to drug abuse to depression, to use bankruptcy court to avoid repaying their student loans. Since those loans, either made directly or guaranteed by the U.S….
Does Debt Discriminate Against Latinos?
…Possibilities might include: Lowering requirements for Pell Grants, loans, etc., to Latinos; Lowering the interest rate on student loans to Latinos; Forgiving obligation to repay loans to Latinos who remain…
Cheaper Student Loans–A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
…of Education should start targeting student loans: giving cheaper loans, not to every student from low-income families, but to needy students with good prospects for repaying the loans they take…
“Diversity” Takes More Lumps
…student loans. Similarly, on National Review Online’s Phi Beta Cons, George Leef quoted Clegg’s comment and concluded that the study “seems like much ado about nothing.” Naive, idealistic freshmen are…
The Loan Defaults Are Coming–Here’s What to Do
…Higher Education in America: Dangling the prospect of getting needed student loans before students and their parents constitutes an incentive for college students and would-be college students to behave more…
The Student Loan Debacle–What a Mess
Until recently, much talk about student loans was fact-free: There simply weren’t publicly available figures worth paying attention to. The official balance of student loans from the NY Fed were…
A Funny Book about Worthless Degrees
…major whose most lucrative employment consisted of an internship that didn’t pay enough for him to buy food. There’s the guy who took out $35,000 in student loans to earn…
Obama Fosters the Skyrocketing Tuition He Criticized
…assistant vice chancellor for diversity, the faculty equity advisors, the graduate diversity coordinators, the staff diversity liaison, the undergraduate student diversity liaison, the graduate student diversity liaison, the chief diversity…
The Perils of Law Schools and Their Rankings
…Education Department now plans to limit or deny federal grants and loans to students at for-profit schools that cannot demonstrate that relatively large percentages of their former students are paying…
For Crippling Debt, Why Not Try Grad School?
…racking up an average cumulative debt of $44,995, according to American Student Assistance. About 48 percent of doctoral students had borrowed for their undergraduate degrees, and the total average cumulative…
What’s Wrong with the Law Schools
…of law school to the projected outcome of the student. In essence, the structure would allow students to gain forgiveness from a portion of their loans after a pre-set period…
What Do the Law Schools Think They’re Doing?
…students’ ability to buy homes (and thus, the housing market), and increasing federal spending on student loans is driving up college tuition and also harming the economy in other ways….
More College Aid for Low-Income Families, Please
…students have been “disappointingly low.” That has virtually nothing to do with equal opportunity, Gillen argues. Rather, low-income students don’t complete degrees largely because they lack the academic skills to…
How Federal Aid Drives Up College Tuition
…As states send more and more mediocre students to college, students learn less and less. “Our colleges and universities are full to the brim with students who do not really…
No, They Can’t Renege on Student Debt
…pressure Congress into writing off all existing student loans and making future student loans interest-free–or better yet, having the federal government subsidize tuition completely at all public colleges and universities….
Are Professors Productive Enough?–The Issue Won’t Die
…public funding of universities, bonuses for “effective and efficient teachers” based on their student evaluations, “learning contracts” with students, and separation of colleges’ teaching budgets from their research budgets. The…
Will English Departments Begin to Fade?
…graduate students in language departments and elsewhere in the humanities are going to realize that their degrees are mostly worthless, especially when financed by mountainous loans. The MLA seems to…
Average Taxpayers Are Heavily Supporting Elite Colleges
…student per year until we turn to the most selective institutions . . . Among these already well-endowed institutions, the taxpayer subsidy jumps substantially to more than $13,000 per student…
College Inertia, Gradual Change, and Radical Disruption
A few years ago, at a luncheon at Harvard University, Larry Summers noted an interesting fact. If you look at the top ten players in any industry or business 50…
Check Out This Alternative to College
…traditional-age community college students failed to earn even a single year’s worth of 30 credits. “Students need guidance—anything that you can think of that will help them plan their futures,”…
The Revenge of the Unemployed Graduates
…student was at the time $4,420 per student — students launched a strike to preserve what was essentially free tuition and open admissions. The strike closed the university for nine-and-a-half…
Are Student Debt Levels Ridiculous?
…non-sensical question. Somehow, folks get morally indignant when in comes to student loans. Yet, there is good evidence suggesting that widely available student loans have been a force for social…