The Liberal Arts: What We Don’t Know
What is the value of a liberal arts education? At a time when parents are wary of taking on loads of debt to finance their children’s college degrees, it was…
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Saving a Struggling College Starts with the Board
Before the COVID-19 pandemic walloped our colleges and universities, higher education had been facing threats to existing business models for years. A great deal has been written the past few…
When Student Debt Is A Good Thing (And When It’s Not)
Student debt has a bad reputation. It’s under attack from the left, which sees debt as a ball and chain that ruins the lives of young people who had the…
America Needs a GED Equivalent for a College Degree
As higher education undergoes dramatic changes thanks to the coronavirus, reformers should aim higher than expanding online education. Now is a propitious time to end the dominance of accreditation agencies…
Master’s Degrees in Janitorial Science?
There has been mounting evidence that the financial payoff from the traditional bachelor’s degree is declining, particularly for men. For example, Census Bureau data suggest that, from 2005 to 2016,…
Will New Transparency Measures Help North Carolina Students?
Whether or not you agree that a college degree is primarily worth its increase in potential earning power, students overwhelmingly rate the economic benefits of a degree as the top…
Lessons Learned
My two-year program in paralegal studies had its good points, but some bad ones as well.
Ignoring the Elephant in the Room
A Pew Research study claims that those who don't go to college penalize themselves.
Senator Rubio Advances the Ball
The Florida senator suggests ideas that could catalyze game-changing higher education reforms.
Et Tu, New York Times?
Even the Gray Lady recognizes that the education establishment has oversold college.