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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Obama’s Higher-Ed Agenda: A Series by Peter Wood
Apr 10, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
A roundup of the articles in Peter Wood's series "Obama's Higher-Education Agenda"
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Remediating America: On the Consultations of FSG
Apr 03, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood observes that the call for extraordinary efforts to improve community college degree-completion rates might benefit consultants more than students.
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Lumina: U.S. Needs More College Grads
Mar 28, 2012 by Joanne Jacobs |
Joanne Jacobs contrasts the Lumina Foundation's call for 23 million more college-educated workers to Peter Wood's arguments that more higher education does not directly correlate with a nation's economic health.
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College for All: Obama’s Higher Ed Agenda, Part 3 of 8
Mar 13, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Does higher education provide the only path to financial security, global comptetitiveness, personal fulfillment, and active citizenship?
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Rick Santorum Is Right
Mar 07, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood reviews the presidential hopeful Rick Santorum’s controversial remarks about higher education.
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Supersizing: Obama’s Higher Education Agenda, Part 1 of 8
Feb 22, 2012 by Peter Wood |
In the first of an eight-part series, Peter Wood examines the president’s longstanding goal of making America the nation with the highest percentage of college graduates.
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Obama’s Higher-Ed Agenda
Feb 14, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood surveys the Obama administration’s eight-part higher-education agenda.
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Historian Victor Davis Hanson on American Higher Ed
Nov 23, 2011 by George Leef |
Former Cal State Fresno history professor Victor Davis Hanson writes here about the sad history of American higher ed over the last 50 years. He refers to "the Fannie and Freddie university" meaning that higher ed has been politicized,… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Murray: Three Reasons Colleges Are Oversubscribed
Nov 22, 2011 by Brendan Nagle |
A report from a National Capitol Association of Scholars meeting.
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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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Twenty-Six Year Olds in Diapers?
Oct 11, 2011 by George Leef |
David Bass of the John Locke Foundation argues that the mania for putting as many people as possible in college has given us 26 year-olds in diapers (figuratively speaking).
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“Higher Education Bubble” AQ Issue in Print
Oct 06, 2011 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood |
The fall 2011 issue of Academic Questions asks, "Is there a bubble in higher education?"
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Coming Student Loan Crisis: Crony Capitalism + Egalitarian Liberalism
Aug 29, 2011 by Jonathan Bean |
Take the notion that every child deserves to attend college (egalitarian liberalism) and add crony capitalism (banks with the power to squeeze you despite bankruptcy (i.e., kind of like the IRS!). The result is the warning of several… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Subway Ride
Aug 24, 2011 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood comments on colleges’ hard sell to underprepared students.
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