College Is a Drain
May 03, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
This week brought a shower of pronouncements about how college is squandering American resources.
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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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Community College Presidents and Compensation
Apr 12, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
What do they make?
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Price Controls: Obama’s Higher Ed Agenda, Part 2 of 8
Mar 01, 2012 by Peter Wood |
In the second of an eight-part series, Peter Wood examines the president’s newly announced goal of capping tuition increases via federally imposed price controls.
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Defending Online Learning, Part One
Feb 28, 2012 by Thomas K. Lindsay |
Once a skeptic, Thomas K. Lindsay now sees online education as a powerful means to address the crisis in American higher education.
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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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Parents Pile Up Education Loans, Imperil Retirement Years
Feb 16, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Well-meaning parents who borrow heavily to finance their children's college education end up with mountainous debts and endangered retirements
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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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The Coming Assault on Beadledom
Jan 19, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
The Ivory Tower is submerged in academic administrators.
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Video: Neal McCluskey on Student Loans Driving up Tuition
Dec 13, 2011 by |
The associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom discusses college cost inflation with Andy Nash.
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I Don’t Usually Recommend Rap Videos….
Dec 05, 2011 by George Leef |
But here's a very pointed one about the student debt bubble, with many sad college grads appealing to Barack to save them.
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No Undergrad Degree Is Worth $250,000
Nov 29, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |
So says financial expert Dave Ramsey to a woman whose stepdaughter wants her parents to finance her $250,000 private college education.
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What If There Were Prison Loan Debts?
Nov 09, 2011 by Kate Hamilton |
The average cost for one year of prison is more expensive than one year at Princeton University.
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NYT Writer Observes That College Costs a Lot, But Students Learn Little
Oct 24, 2011 by George Leef |
While higher ed expenses and concomitant student debt loads have risen greatly, many students put in little effort to get B or better averages.
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