Give It the Old College Try
Apr 30, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Richard Vedder criticizes low interest student loans, which he says will not be of much benefit to students and will serve to entice people to go to college unnecessarily.
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A Rolls-Royce For-Profit University?
Apr 25, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
An elite, high-quality, for-profit, residential university is feasible, writes Richard Vedder.
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There Are As Many Student-Loan Debtors as College Graduates
Apr 13, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Richard Vedder discusses new data that reveal huge numbers of students are very slow in paying back loans and that the financial problems associated with student-loan debt have been understated.
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Revising Teacher Education: Meaningful Change or Window Dressing?
Mar 19, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Will the newly formed accrediting agency for education schools enact some real reforms to improve K-12 education?
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Regulatory Overreach
Mar 06, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Richard Vedder says the approval by the House of Representatives of a bill ending credit-hour and “state authorization” legislation is an important step in reining in the Obama administration.
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Princeton and Urbana Universities: A Tale of Two Schools
Mar 05, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Tax policies favor rich colleges, even though small, struggling liberal-arts colleges probably make far better use of incremental private donations, says Richard Vedder.
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Why They Seem to Rise Together: Federal Aid and College Tuition
Feb 21, 2012 by George Leef, Hans Bader, Herbert London, Peter Wood, Richard Vedder |
Peter Wood, Richard Vedder, George Leef, Hans Bader, and Herbert London weigh in on the Center for College Affordability and Productivity's new study on whether colleges raise tuition when they receive federal aid.
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Bennett, Biden, and Boondoggles
Feb 20, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
The vice president appears to be the latest to agree that federal student-aid programs are contributing to rising college costs, writes Richard Vedder.
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Higher Education’s Increasing Disdain for Virtue
Feb 17, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
The rankings scandal at Claremont McKenna College is just the latest example of colleges deceiving the public, writes Richard Vedder.
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Obama, Higher-Education Costs, and Student Aid
Feb 09, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Yes, President Obama is showing concern over rising college costs, but he is failing to look at the dysfunctional system of federal financial assistance, Richard Vedder writes.
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Overinvesting in Higher Ed
Feb 08, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Should nearly everyone go to college? No, says Richard Vedder.
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Universities and Income Equality: New Evidence and Conjectures
Feb 07, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Richard Vedder discusses new research suggesting that a greater proportion of degree-holders lowers income equality.
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Higher Education’s Role in America’s “Coming Apart”
Jan 26, 2012 by Richard Vedder |
Don't discount higher education as a source of some of America's problems.
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Cost Versus Enrollment Bubbles
Sep 07, 2011 by Andrew Gillen , Richard Vedder |
We should carefully consider why Americans
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“Mindless” Pursuit of College Degrees Comes at a High Cost
Dec 13, 2010 by Ashley Thorne, Richard Vedder |
Approximately 60 percent of the increase in the number of college graduates from 1992 to 2008 worked in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers relatively low skilled.
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