Madeline Baker writes for the Martin Center about student loan default rates across the country. When students are late making a monthly payment on their federal student loans, the loan…
Michael DeBow writes for the Martin Center about efforts to thwart the for-profit sector in higher education. During the Obama years, the Department was dominated by people who regarded for-profit…
Jenna Robinson’s latest Martin Center column explores the potential impact of increased transparency on college student debt. The Department of Education is poised to replace Obama-era regulations on for-profit colleges…
Jane Shaw writes for the Martin Center about the impact of declining college and university enrollment. A specter is haunting higher education—the specter of declining enrollments. University and college enrollment…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on the Obama administration’s effort to put a college chain out of business. When the Department of Education was established in 1979, no one…
ITT Tech had four North Carolina campuses—one in High Point—that were victims of the for-profit college’s nationwide shutdown, leaving its student in the lurch. Warning signals were everywhere—ITT announced earlier…
Janet Lorin needs just two opening sentences in a Blooomberg Businessweek article to describe a key problem with modern American higher education. Laura Strong, a 29-year-old in suburban Chicago, owes…
Count Michael Barone among those who have been less than inspired by President Obama’s latest rhetoric on the tepid American economy. Obama called for increasing the minimum wage. That always…
If the recent state budget crafted by Republicans tossed so many public school teachers into the unemployment lines, why did so many school districts have job openings as the school…
For-profit colleges have been the subject of much criticism recently. The charge is that these colleges dupe students into taking all sorts of federal subsidies and then provide a sub-par…
The latest Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Jane Shaw’s report on the UNC system’s role in licensing other nonpublic and for-profit universities in the state.
Writing for the Huffington Post Anya Kamenetz compares the huge level of student-loan debt to the housing bubble. I?m glad to see understanding that we have oversold college spreading, but…