The Overhyped College Dropout ‘Scandal’
About 40 percent of Americans who enroll in college drop out before earning a certificate or degree. A high percentage of those who drop out are from poor families; they…
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Did You Know? College Textbook Prices Have Increased 88% Since 2006
Among presidential candidates, many campaign platforms have a plan to lower college costs. There’s no question that college costs have increased, but textbook prices have seen the sharpest increase—88 percent…
A New-Schools Strategy to Fix Higher Education
It would be easy to conclude, after a quick look at some topline findings about higher education in recent years, that a set of misguided practices and policies has distorted…
Cutting Tuition Prices So Students Can Borrow Less
In the past few years, large public universities have garnered headlines by freezing tuition. Purdue University, the Pennsylvania State System, and every public four-year university in Virginia have all frozen…
A Conservative Definition of Diversity
Are conservatives against the campus diversity administrative machine or are they opposed to diversity itself? The argument in favor of the former seems like an easy one. Ever since debates…
Did You Know? The North Carolina Colleges with High Student Default Rates
When students take federal loans to pay for college, the government declares them to be in default if a student doesn’t make a payment for 9 months. According to the…
The Credibility Issue in Nutrition Science Is a Sign for All of Higher Ed
In recent years, psychology has dealt with a legitimacy crisis. Many influential psychological studies could not be reproduced by other psychologists, discrediting some key insights and weakening academic faith in…
The Majors that Pay and the Degrees that Don’t for Graduates
The College Scorecard, a Department of Education initiative that publishes data on student debt and earnings after graduation for thousands of schools, just got a major update. Previously, the Scorecard’s…
Why Students Should Still Pick a History Major
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the history field has seen a precipitous decline in the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in American colleges. As Benjamin Schmidt, a historian at Northeastern…
Did You Know? The Biggest NC Endowments Keep Growing
A college endowment is a fund where an institution keeps its financial assets and donations and can invest that money for the college’s long-term stability. In North Carolina, the largest…