The Next Bubble?
…over 35% of students rely on student loans, and the number is growing.) Not surprisingly, the last twenty years have seen tuition costs rise at over three times the rate…
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Are Colleges “Failure Factories”?
…force them into the full-time work force or into caring for relatives. While some claim this is an enormous problem, the vast amount of student loans available has reduced the…
The Sorry Plight Of The Adjunct Professor
…scholarly research that her six years at Trinity, Dublin, had trained her to do. Speaking of which, there are the $46,000 in student loans Tracy racked up while at Trinity,…
Freshmen Orientation: Is It Over Yet?
“Parents asking, ‘Where’s the trash?’ were promptly corrected by event staff and volunteers, who proudly provided composting crash courses to the thousands of students and family members.” The “event”—described in…
The ABA’s Diversity Agenda
…closed. Many of those who never succeeded were left with huge student loans. Indeed, these days, it is utterly routine for law students to graduate with loans well in excess…
Another Progressive College Folds
…financial aid to students, a fatal blow to the students, many of whom had been surviving on federal loans and grants, and to New College itself, which had almost no…
What Does ‘Sustainability’ Have to Do With Student Loans?
…“good sense” and urges as a longer term solution the migration of a much larger percentage of student loans into direct government loans. (Currently 22 percent of the federal loans…
American University Preferences For Americans?
…global audience, and, in this case, student body. Columbia just announced an overhaul of its financial aid policies, of considerable benefit to poor and middle class-students. They did not appear…
Student Loans – Sequel To The Mortgage Mess?
…First Marblehead contain a lot of loans of doubtful value. These aren’t the loans that are guaranteed by the Federal government’s Title IV Student Loan program. When students have borrowed…
A Surprisingly Welcome Financial Aid Shake Up
…California Institute of Technology declared revisions for the benefit of lower and middle-income students. On Monday, the University of Pennsylvania announced the end of student loans for students from families…
First Mortgages, Now Student Loans?
…issuing more student loans. As with the housing market, the potential danger is that if investors grow wary of student loan debt, the banks will refrain from issuing new loans….
The Spiraling Cost Of Higher Education
…to students, and thereby escape the necessity of providing a product that the consumers (students) can afford. Terms such as “accountability” and “transparency” are critically important with respect to public…
Another College Aid Boondoggle?
…to college students will now be spent to increase the size of Pell Grants, cut the interest rates students pay on federally subsidized loans, and – in principle – reduce…
The Study Abroad Scandal
…drive up the costs borne by the students, in the form of higher fees and interest rates than the students could have obtained elsewhere. This soak-the-student approach, however, is sometimes…
Student Loans: All Better Now
…of the case Those Scandlous Student Loans). This week, George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, introduced a bill to reduce federal subsidies of private loan providers…
Those Scandalous Student Loans
…don’t have the time or interest to learn the mechanics of Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, PLUS Loans, Perkins loans, FFEL consolidation loans, and so on. Neither do most college and…