Jenna Robinson’s latest Martin Center column focuses on the potential positive impact of cutting college tuition costs. In the past few years, large public universities have garnered headlines by freezing…
A lot of people attend college, and a lot of people fail to graduate in four years. There are lots of reasons, but it’s a big, costly problem that needs…
One suspects George “College is oversold” Leef will find some interest in Fareed Zakaria‘s latest TIME column, which targets the prevalent practice among American universities of admitting less-than-stellar students just…
In discussing lefty group Priorities USA’s efforts to attack Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s education policies, James Lileks offers National Review readers a humorous take on the merits of higher…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek cover story adds more ammunition to George Leef’s argument that college is oversold. Yes, writer Peter Coy buys into the common argument that “college pays” and…
Is Junior getting on your nerves as you’re all cooped up in the snow with the schools closed? Why don’t you see if he can earn some money for college…
National Association of Scholars president Peter Wood has written an excellent, synoptic essay on the prospect of a higher education “bubble” and I commend it to all Locker Room readers.…
‘Member the other day when we pointed out one calculus of the best investments in a college education? ‘Member we asked where UNC-Chapel Hill was — ‘member that? That was…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — this time in today’s Christian Science Monitor. You can read my article here.
That’s the question Rich Karlgaard, publisher for Forbes, asks in his current column there. He argues that the enormous investment in a college degree these days (often in the $100-175K…
Don’t you just love it when other people write things that support your own conclusions? For a long time — since day 1 of my college teaching career in 1980…