A Memo to College Presidents
The higher-education landscape has been radically transformed in recent months. Yet, for all the excited headlines and frenetic chatter, I’m not sure that college presidents, trustees, and alumni groups fully…
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Regulatory Barriers to OPMs Are Stifling Innovation
Across the country, colleges and universities face fierce competition for students and pressure to keep costs low. One way to lower costs is to move some course offerings online. Online…
From High School to Law School
Recently, I had the pleasure to interview a North Carolina State University alum, Richard Basile, who graduated with his bachelor’s degree last December at only 19 years of age. By…
Trade Schools Are Tackling the Ivies
Ivy League schools have long captured the hearts and minds of Americans and are often believed to represent the best possible educational endeavors available in the United States. Yet a…
Are Microcredentials Worth the Cost?
In recent years, short-term credentials (also known as “microcredentials” or “postsecondary programs and certificates … which generally take one year or less to earn”) have gained traction among students wishing…
Pick a College and Graduate
The rising cost of college has been a serious issue in recent decades. Students everywhere are trying out different strategies as a result. Some are deciding not to go to…
Should English Majors Pay Less?
Institutions of higher education are bracing for a crunch, if they aren’t experiencing one already. Slowing population growth, mounting skepticism of academia, and various other factors have provoked college leaders—at…
Let’s Regulate Colleges Like Businesses
Colleges do not look like for-profit firms selling investments. After all, colleges are primarily nonprofits or state agencies, which, for our purposes, are treated equally. Nevertheless, colleges behave like for-profit…
Parents Aren’t Saving Enough for College
College has long been thought necessary for success later in life, and it is often assumed to be the best pathway for recent high-school graduates. While that may have been…
The Debt-Free Four-Year Degree
A recent Gallup survey found that confidence in America’s colleges and universities has plummeted in the past decade, with only 36 percent of today’s adults expressing “a great deal” or “quite…