Universities Should Invest in Their Students, Not Securities
…to enable, and induce, their students to repay them. If their students repay, schools will continue to exist; if too many default, schools will sooner or later fail. No monolithic,…
…to enable, and induce, their students to repay them. If their students repay, schools will continue to exist; if too many default, schools will sooner or later fail. No monolithic,…
…will come much sooner. President-elect Trump and analysts such as Fried are not alone in their belief that endowments should provide more immediate payoffs. Earlier this year, Senator Orrin Hatch…
…of those mistakes in matching—with emphasis on the latest issue of concern, undermatching. A student “undermatches” when he or she has the academic ability to attend (or at least has…
…NC SPIN. He is the author of seven books on politics, history, and economics and writes a monthly column for Business North Carolina magazine. His latest book is Catalyst: Jim…
…up roadblocks most of the way. The latest example of UNC’s intransigence happened recently when the school provided public records to the News & Observer apparently so “redacted” (with supposedly…
…college professors would be open-minded enough to allow the speakers to give their presentations and then take issue with anything they disagreed with—but that’s not how academia operates these days….
…what young people do. With no particular ambition or plan of study, college is where young people go after high school to postpone adult responsibility and ‘party’ for four years.”…
…out its plans. The story is long and sordid, but the latest major act came when a student (!) informed Gerber that his constitutional law course for this fall would…
…legal gun owners on campus will be difficult to distinguish from active shooters, and that campus defense should be left to the police. They also credit existing “gun-free” policies for…
…to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “Zionism is genocide” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” learned their rhetoric from campus clubs like the Students for Justice…