Taxpayers on the Hook for Overpriced Master’s Degrees
…to pay the federal loans after they leave. As Columbia graduate student James Stoteraux notes, “There were 55 students in my incoming class at Columbia’s MFA Film program. Only 4…
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Higher-Ed’s Endless Mission Creep
…submit to the accreditation ordeal because they must in order to receive federal funds such as research grants, student loans, and Pell grants. The costs of accreditation, data-reporting mandates and…
Data-Driven Accountability is Coming to Higher Ed
…of college including student loans is closer to $300,000). And for the past few years, students have been able to find the average salary among a college’s graduates. This earlier…
The Failure of Higher Ed Accreditation
…education in the service of students, parents, and federal, state, and local governments. Without accreditation, students and schools are ineligible for government-supported funding, including student loans and grants. With few…
Don’t Bail Out Colleges. Help Students Instead.
…took the wrong approach. On the bright side, for students, the act provided a reasonable form of assistance by waiving interest for most student loans until October and allowing students…
How to Lower Skyrocketing College Tuition Costs
…program-level basis. [Five Reasons Why Student Loans Are a Looming Disaster] The MCOC tames the Bennett Hypothesis because when a college raises tuition by $1, it doesn’t change the aid…
Are College Costs Transforming Family Life?
…not have written this book if it were not for the federal college student financial assistance programs, especially student loans. The New York Federal Reserve and others have solidly demonstrated…
A Better Way to Solve the Student Loan Crisis
Skin in the game for student loans, the idea that colleges should face financial consequence when their students default, is gaining momentum in policy discussions. After all, when students take…
College Students Aren’t Even Learning New Words
…in recent years, students “spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago.” The National Assessment of Adult Literacy also shows that degree holders are learning less….
The Consequences of Forgiving $1.5 Trillion in Student Loans
…Student Loans Are a Looming Disaster] Particularly culpable is the federal student loan program, which was originally intended to improve access to college among students facing financial constraints. In 1987,…
One Clear Way to Stop College Accreditation Fraud
…students have paid for essentially worthless college degrees with federal grants and loans. And because the accreditation system is costly – schools must devote a lot of time to preparing…
Why It’s Time to End College Accreditation
…standards. But what if we simply said that “no federal student loans to four-year degree-granting institutions will be granted where fewer than a 25 percent of full-time students graduate within…
Ten Things Destroying American Higher Education
…Total spending per student on colleges is significantly higher in the U.S. than almost anywhere else in the world. Related: Five Reasons Why Students Loans Are a Looming Disaster Second,…
Five Reasons Why Student Loans Are a Looming Disaster
…simply postponing the day of reckoning. Student loans have the highest delinquency rates of any federal credit program, and higher than for private auto, home equity, and mortgage loans. The…
The $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Debacle Hits a Tipping Point
…student loans, it is a significant step in the direction of reining them in before another generation finds itself indentured to a lifetime of repaying student loans. As for what…
What the Tax-Reform Law Could Do to Higher Education
…that have more than 500 students and assets of more than $100,000 per students, This would apply to 140 colleges and produce $3 billion in new federal revenue over ten…
A Bi-Polar Report on ‘Laggard’ Public Colleges
…Wayne State, over 60 percent of students who borrowed had failed to pay at least one dollar of their student loans back –three years after attending). Yet these schools sucker…
Self-Censorship Is Easy to Learn, Particularly in Dormitories
…students as customers. They will almost never throw a student out, no matter what they do. They don’t want students to feel like they’re not going to graduate. Graduation rates…
You Will Attend Purdue’s ‘Safe Zone’ Training Session
…money, tuition payments and student loans, and prevailing moral sentiments are its batteries. The outlay and opportunity cost are vast. The debasing process to get your rainbow sticker requires personnel,…
Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…has declined somewhat – are overwhelmingly going to be the academically marginal and disengaged students for whom college is just an expensive credential. America’s sharp students are in high demand…
The Flaws of New York’s Free-College Plan
…(TAP) already disburses up to $1.1 billion to over 300,000 students. And federal Pell Grant and other direct aid programs (i.e. excluding student loans) send millions of dollars more to…
How Federal Student Loans Increase Tuition and Decrease Aid
…of student loans should be reformed to mitigate the student debt problem. Related: Default on Student Loans? Bad Idea Average gross tuition and fees for undergraduate studies increased more than…
Can We Save Public Universities?
…to these institutions was widely pursued by out-of-state students willing to pay premium tuition. With enrollments in excess of 25,000 and in some cases 40,000 students, these institutions dwarfed the…
College Students Lose It over the Election
…government-sponsored cartel (accreditation, professional certification requirements plus student loans), it considers itself exempt from outside pressures. The result has been the removal of civics from curricula and capture by a…
Obama Backs the Worst Colleges While Destroying For-Profit Schools
…whose graduates are often unemployed. It does so even though many of their graduates will never pay back their student loans because of their low graduating salaries, and the huge…
Title IX Tramples Free Speech and Fairness, So Now What?
…1972, almost all colleges and universities had become addicted to the money flowing in from those loans. The loans officially went to the students, but the dollars went to the…
What Candidates Can Do For Higher Education Now
…the government actively encourages students to take on unnecessary debt. Prompt students to think carefully about their college choices by favoring loans that go towards programs that meet national needs…
Why Get-Tough Accreditors Make Classes More Fun and Less Demanding
…is accredited, they won’t be to use any of that federal grant and loan money to pay for it. So great numbers of students get their Pell grants, federal loans,…
After Many Woeful Failures, the Colleges Avoid Change
…1960s student protesters is that the context has changed. Then as now, students, short on experience, are often unable to distinguish between considered political perspectives and their emotion-laden ideologies. But…
FBI Alert on New Student Loan Scam
…tells the student that he or she has overdue student loans, unpaid taxes or outstanding parking tickets and threatens him or her with arrest or failure to graduate, unless they…