Raise Our Taxes, Please
The largest professors’ association in North Carolina asks the legislature for progressive tax increases to address the state’s budget deficit.
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Just Say No…to a Business Degree
An educational entrepreneur warns parents against advising their children to major in business.
The True Student-Loan Racket
President Obama is planning to change the ways that students obtain loans, with more funds coming directly from the government rather than through subsidized lending. But the fundamental issues surrounding college loans aren’t going to change. They are worrisome.
If you are a taxpayer, you might be surprised at how generous the government is in providing loans and how lax about repayment. If you are a student, you should know that government policies change your incentives: they encourage you to borrow more than you should, to hold on to the loans for years without repaying them, and even to enter jobs that you wouldn’t otherwise have picked.
Educational Luddites Unite! Save the Buggy-whip Manufacturers!
An educational entrepreneur says academia is hanging on to a failed, obsolete ideology while entrepreneurial solutions are revolutionizing the world.
The Privileged Class
The commotion about the university job of a former North Carolina governor’s wife reveals a larger pattern of undue influence throughout the UNC system.
In Defense of Academic Publishing
A political scientist argues that liberal arts faculty should be role models, and that means conducting research.
Adventures in Absurdity
A guy goes back to school in his early forties and finds that academia is sometimes just plain weird.
A New Law of Averages at Princeton
The Ivy League school’s reintroduction of tough grading standards could change the campus culture for the better.
“Endowment Transparency”
No, students do not have a right to know how Duke invests its funds.
Growing Up: Better Late Than Never!
A late-blooming student learns the real facts of life after he starts a family–that life is hard without an education.