Universities Are Vocational Schools
…of applicants place high importance on the ability of degree programs to help students get a good job.” With regards to the prospective students themselves, “only” 87 percent of the…
Search Results for: student loans
Some Hope for Higher Ed Reform
…$125,000 in student loans. That’s nobody’s fault – it was an investment for me. We want kids to have access to information before they make this investment.” Secondly, the bill…
The Wacky World of Victim Studies
…is not. It isn’t a critique of American higher education as a whole. Bawer has nothing to say on the natural sciences, the sustainability movement, the crisis in student loans,…
Wesleyan Abandons Need-Blind Admissions
…institutions’ financial aid expenditures. The institutions responded by further improving their financial aid packages; the wealthiest eliminated all loans and the others typically eliminated loans for students coming from families…
Another College Cost: Lower Birth Rate
…year, according to recently-released research. “Thirty-six percent” of college students learned little in four years of college, and students now spend “50% less time studying compared with students a few…
When Universities Raid Their Law Schools
…chances of securing the highly paid law jobs on graduation that would enable them to repay student loans, currently face declining numbers of applicants. Nonetheless, the schools feel pressured to…
Obama Doesn’t Understand the Economics of Higher Ed
…states to assail Mitt Romney for his supposed views on financing college tution. Obama, the article notes, argued that Romney “would cut student loans and grants” but “do nothing to…
Campaign 2012: Who’s Better for Higher Ed?
…such a pivotal election year, have student loans garnered so much attention? The most obvious answer is also the most cynical one. The candidates need the student vote and feel…
Can We or Can’t We ‘Target’ Women and Minorities?
…for which Virginia College trains its students are overwhelmingly female in demographics, just like the Virginia College student body. And African-Americans form the majority of students–61 percent–even at the local…
Student Voices
Ryan’s Plan is Good for Higher Ed
…that cap would begin) and excluding students who attend school less than part-time. On the Federal Student loan front, Ryan proposes ending federally-subsidized loans, wherein the government pays the interest…
The Senate’s Assault on For-Profits
…Education gave for-profits $32 billion in student loans–25% of its budget for loans. With Pell Grants, federal aid made up 86% of for-profits’ revenue. This federal guarantee is a powerful…
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…
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…