…2011-12 was much smaller: $125.1 million. (See page 8 of the June 2012 Office of the State Controller’s General Fund monthly report.) Claim #2: Per-student appropriations for higher education in…
…mean almost anything. The technique is infinitely malleable and will always arrive at the desired conclusion, namely that our society is irredeemably bad and must be transformed. (How you redeem…
…such issues as enrollment trends, graduation rates, application trends, state appropriations, faculty salaries, and more. But even that 20-page report (which can be found in full here) does not provide…
…Howell, a lengthy study sponsored by the Ford Foundation in 1959 on the state of business education. I was drawn to Gordon and Howell’s book because several recent volumes on…
…Page 44 of the 50-page bill that approved the referendum contains a requirement that some localities match state funds for new community-college construction. Under the matching formula developed by a…
…university performance. It will help to ensure that our universities are creating value for students and citizens of North Carolina. The full report is available here. Scroll to page 17….
…what the school will cost, et cetera. But the information provided is limited and brief and hardly amounts to more than a PowerPoint presentation. Furthermore, the counseling is required only…
…dismissed but denounced,” says Sowell, citing attacks in four newspapers. As some readers will recognize, the idea that important knowledge is dispersed among many people encapsulates F. A. Hayek’s most…
…as The Nation, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times op-ed page. One right-leaning source (the Weekly Standard) made the list, but the opinion expressed wasn’t exactly conservative (in a…
…academic planning and state authorization, noted that the team was particularly concerned about the number of faculty members and their credentials. On CreatEd’s employee page, for instance, there doesn’t appear…