Does Anyone Care What They Study?
Columbia has a good core curriculum, Harvard a weak one, and many schools none at all.
Articles by George Leef
Administrative Costs Mushrooming
Rapidly rising numbers of and expense for administrators explain much of the rising cost of college education.
Sharp and Unexpected Criticism
Higher Education? is a book that critics left and right like, but the education establishment–not so much.
Is the College Business Model Broken?
A PBS debate generates some heat but not much light on college cost and access.
How Much Work
Part II of my analysis of a major paper centers on a common misconception.
This Paper Refutes Itself
A hefty new study purports to prove U.S. needs more college graduates, but flops.
The Great Brain Race
Higher education is fast becoming more globalized, but will it reshape the world?
Thinking Like an Economist
A new book subjects college education to Bastiat’s famous “seen versus unseen” analysis.
Don’t Go to College to Learn Economics
People with a high school education have as much economic sophistication as college graduates do.
There Was No Golden Age
American colleges have always had substantial dropout rates, so should we worry?