The Potted Plants of Higher Education
…getting a good return on their investment? A bill—Senate Bill 506—narrowly passed the Virginia legislature but, at this writing, unsigned by the Governor, seems to explicitly state that the trustees…
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No Borders: Higher Education Enables Illegal Immigration
…lower tuition than out-of-state Americans. One such entity is College Board, a not-for-profit, “diverse team of talented professionals dedicated to making college dreams come true”—fancy. They help advise undocumented students—among…
Academia’s Wealth Stratification Drives the Decline in Reporting Endowments
…University Professors, College Board, Common Data Set, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the Council for Independent Colleges, the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service, the Military Friendly Schools, Peterson’s, the…
Reassessing Liberal Arts Teaching
…of higher education has led many students and families to prioritize programs that offer a clear return on investment, such as those in STEM fields or business. The rapid pace…
The Pampered Pets of Big Science
A couple of weeks ago, the Washington Post reported on the shattered career of “renowned AIDS researcher” Jeffrey Parsons, a psychologist who spent most of his career at Hunter College…
The University-to-Policymaker Pipeline under Biden
…the People for failing to toe the party line on climate change. She has since proposed the establishment of a National Investment Authority that would make Papa Stalin proud. Cecilia…
North Carolina’s Best and Worst Degrees
…City State University are just a few of the underperforming programs which are potentially on the chopping block. [Related: “Good News on College Affordability”] Readers might notice that legal programs…
A Guide to the Perplexed
…all white people are bad, that all black people are good, that “indigenous” tribes in the developing world are more noble and wise than city dwellers, that “gender” is a…
Administrative Bloat and Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness
…college increased so drastically, necessitating burdensome debt that sometimes takes decades to pay off? Indeed, from 1971 to 2021, the cost of attending a private college increased at some 4.6…
The Tip of the Racist Spear
…billion to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and $192 million to Tribal Colleges and Universities. This was on top of the department’s investment of nearly $1 billion in grant…
The Logical and Rhetorical Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness
…than average to attend college since they are more liquidity-constrained (unless they disproportionately enroll in lower-cost colleges where there is less need to borrow). If increasing the number of high-needs…
NAS by the Numbers
…size, a grow rate of 434% in four years. We proudly continue the tradition of investment success founded by Thales, the first speculator. Money in the bank is good, but…
I Just Made My Last Student Loan Payment—Here’s How to Improve the System
…the investment to repay the loan—there is a good case to be made that a traditional loan repayment schedule is not a good fit for student loans. Traditional loans like…
Data-Driven Accountability is Coming to Higher Ed
…Many “everyone should go to college” advocates tirelessly repeated the mantra that college graduates earn an extra $1 million over their careers (the true value after accounting for the cost…
Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
…and White Fragility is being discussed on college campuses nationwide. She’s in-demand, and for some reason, administrators are more than willing to pay her $12,000 speaking fee. DiAngelo often describes…
The Long March to Educational Reform
…teach literacy and numeracy, not wokeness. While the status quo is not good for American K-12 education, it does, however, present opportunities for hundreds of financially troubled colleges and universities….
Intimidation-Produced Silence at Stanford
Back in the late middle of the last century I attended Stanford for my last three years of college and my last three years of graduate school. Since then I…
When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…is only tangentially about college campuses. This is about a breakdown in the basic logic of civilization, and it’s spreading. College campuses may be the first dramatic battle but of…
How Many Colleges Will Go Under? Will Yours Be One?
…condition of schools varies considerably: there are affluent ones with large cash reserves, billions in investments in their endowment, and robust demand for their services, while other schools are worried…
Should We Believe Whatever a Woman Says About Sexual Assault?
…percentage of your capital, whether or not their advice is any good and whether or not your earnings beat the market. The investment industry has vigorously opposed laws that require…
The College Endowment Tax: A Good Idea, Sort of…
Starting next January, some 35 very wealthy private colleges and universities will start paying an annual 1.4 percent college endowment tax under the new tax reform law. That’s very few…
Is Half of College Education Wasted?
…majors. Wasted learning, predictably, is fine arts, psychology, journalism and the Liberal Arts more generally. All and all, judged by the distribution of college majors in 2008-9, 40.5% of college…
Taxing the Campus Plutocrats
One provision in the new tax legislation is going to give scores of colleges and universities a lot of heartburn –the 21 percent federal excise tax on compensation of employees…
The Case for Taxing College Endowments
…emphasizing publicly traded stocks and bonds. The traditional view is that investments supporting public institutions should emphasize risk minimization more than wealth maximization. Exotic hedge fund investments in the Cayman…
What the Tax-Reform Law Could Do to Higher Education
…their sons and daughters off to expensive colleges that have low “returns on investment.” The other principal way that colleges and universities entice people to enroll at high prices for…
Crime But No Punishment at Middlebury?
Two weeks have passed since a student mob shouted down visiting lecturer Charles Murray at Middlebury College, injured a professor, and jumped up and down on Murray’s car. But college…
Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…put far more young people through college. The most venerable such effort is a report that the College Board puts out every three years entitled College Pays. Here is the…
Can We Save Public Universities?
…universities. Between 1980 and 2012, college tuition and fees increased more than ten-fold in nominal terms and 4 or 5 times in inflation-adjusted terms. College tuition and fees increased during…
College Students Get Special De-stress Therapy After Trump Election
…Health Services will also be available. We have sent out messages through our Social Media sites as well as encouraging students to drop in all week. Above all, take good…
The University as Nursery
…investment in the overall college experience (and less focus on coursework). Hence the emphasis on “community.” It’s a word nearly all my colleagues, even the most liberal ones, wouldn’t use…