College Scorecard: How Much Will You Earn?
…such Federal PLUS loans. Nor does “typical” mean typical. $13,854 is a median figure, and only 20 percent of Haverford students receive federal loans. So it is not surprising that…
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Academic Work May Not Be Worth Your Time or Effort
…questionable services. Without the carrot of easy access to student loans, enrollments would shrink. Universities would be forced to compete on a cost-per-student basis, and those students still paying to…
A Close Look at Clinton’s Student Debt Plan
…off student loans or worried about the costs of taking them on. She says that her proposal will enable most students to meet college expenses without taking on loans, a…
A Conservative Path to Higher Ed Reform
…the 2000s we created a federal graduate student-loan program that allows, again, graduate students to borrow up to the cost of attendance unlimited amounts. If you continue to enroll in…
Federal Aid Drives up College Costs, Study Finds
…Federal Reserve Bank of New York has found that the massive investment in grants and student loans by the federal government is a major contributor to the unbridled growth in…
Lee Siegel: Bad Op-Ed, Bad Thinking
…noting a few points on the purported virtues of defaulting on student loans. First, Siegel seems to give the impression he was already under a substantial debt burden “by the…
Default on Student Loans? Bad Idea
Writing in The New York Times, Lee Siegel encourages students to follow his example and default on their student loans. The four biggest problems with his piece are: Siegel is…
We Can End the Student Loan Mess
…1990s, fewer than half of students needed loans before they could walk across the stage to receive their diplomas. These loans averaged below $10,000 in constant dollars, which is about…
Campus Censors—Here’s How to Fight Them
…as well as student funds like Pell grants and Stafford loans. Virtually every college in the U.S. gets federal funding from at least one of these sources—indeed, FIRE knows of…
A Surprising List of Top Ten Colleges
…He then compares these measures against the actual performance of graduates from each school based on mid-career earnings levels, the value of job skills, and ability to repay student loans.”…
WHY MILLENNIALS CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
…rule rather than the exception. That prompts the question: what value are these students actually gaining for their mortgaging of their financial futures? Better yet, considering that student loans primarily…
How to Handle the Student Loan Crisis?
Stop giving every student a loan. That’s Megan McArdle’s advice on Bloomberg View. Talking about accredited four-year schools as well as for-profit colleges, she says: “…stop making the loans directly,…
The Withering Away of Law Schools
…a Washington Post article yesterday. Let me add to her observations from my vantage point as a professor of political science for over thirty-five years. I’ve been watching students apply…
Ladies Who Let the Gentleman Pay
The average student-loan debt is approaching $30,000. That is to say, of the 70 percent of college students who borrow to pay all or some of their college expenses, the…
More Government, More Bad Student Loan Policy
…be in the student loan business –not as lender, contractor of service provision, or subsidizer. Until government withdraws from this market, expect to continue hearing horror stories of students marred…
Obama Hides $22 Billion in Student Debt
…from this: First, this new deficit doesn’t even strike me, or most observers, as all that dramatic. The government has nearly $750 billion dollars on its books in student loans,…
Student Debt Harms the Economy, but is Only a Symptom
These days, Americans are talking a lot about underinflated footballs and overinflated student debt loads. In the latter camp you’ll find the president of Purdue University (and former governor of…
The Failures of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
…to give their students the best opportunities to succeed later in life. Universities fail their students if, through divestment, they force students to take on additional loans and increase their…
Do College Graduates Need Soft Skills?
…keep up with the installments due on their student loans. Why can’t graduates of four-year colleges find good jobs? An obvious explanation for college graduates getting dead-end jobs or no…
The “Gainful Employment” Rule is Sheer Folly
…to earn enough to pay their student loans without severe difficulty. Will the proposed rule (945 pages long!) solve this problem by cutting off schools from eligibility for federal student…
How Reform Conservatives Can Help Higher Education
…that function like concierges to fend off dreaded student boredom, and so forth. Students actually do show that most students who choose a residential private college do so with these…
Overstating Unhappiness with Student Loans
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman has just released his annual report on private student loans. The data in the report suggests that an epidemic of non-repayment is…
The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine?
…to accommodate the throngs of degree seekers, who were aided by federal student loan programs. Going to law school both delayed the need to start repaying undergraduate loans and appeared…
Making a Bigger Mess of Student Loans
…that qualify them for the “public service” advantage are pitching that to students. “Georgetown Law, whose students leave school with an average of $146,000 in federal loans, holds a seminar…
Student Loan Reform Is Now a Major Political Issue
…“medically distressed” students be allowed to discharge their student loans. Rubio and Warren’s competing approaches to student loan reform reflect their respective political convictions. Rubio hopes to promote innovative, market-driven…
Campus Activism: the Fight for Imaginary Victories
…of white middleclass students and diversity remains mainly a movement of minority students. They are competing for the same institutional resources, but there are still students who find both movements…
A College Wastes $225,000 on Hillary Clinton
…2012 graduating class was $21,126 per student. Some 40 percent of the 2012 graduating class had taken out student loans. With a class of about 3,000 students, the total debt…
Should You Avoid Ivy League Schools?
…that elite institutions often produce students who are entitled and lack purpose. He also suggests that elite schools promote inequality by catering mostly to high-income students. To fix these problems,…
Why Accreditation is a Waste of Time
…measurable mediocrity? The answer is that unaccredited colleges don’t qualify for federal financial aid money, including federally subsidized student loans and Federal Work-Study. Of course, that means that being accredited…
College Is Affordable—Really
…available today of how U.S. college students are faring: the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) which surveys students at a broad cross-section of higher education institutions as well as…