Policies to Puncture the Student Loan Bubble
Richard Vedder participates in a panel discussion, moderated by the American Enterprise Institute’s Alex Pollock. Together with Andrew Kelly of AEI, Matt Chingos of Brookings Institute, and Jason...
View ArticleHumanities Doctorates: High Risk, Low Reward
To some, pursuing a degree in the humanities is a noble and laudable pursuit. Be it in English or comparative literature, the analysis of humanistic study can expand human knowledge and understanding....
View ArticleNew CCAP Study on the Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid
With Dollars, Sense, and Nonsense: The Harmful Effects of Federal Student Aid, CCAP provides an in-depth analysis of structural issues within higher education, the incentives produced by the federal...
View ArticleSenate Budget Committee on Student Financial Aid
Last Wednesday, Richard Vedder testified at a Senate budget committee hearing concerning student financial aid, debt, federal loan interest rates, and related topics. Video of the hearing is on C-SPAN,...
View ArticleFinland: The Higher Education Model of the Future?
The Nordic approach to education is in vogue. Numerous articles and blog posts have touted the benefits of Norwegian schooling, and the UK has implemented Swedish methods into its classrooms. A recent...
View ArticlePrice Controls Reward the Status Quo
Matt Reed of Inside Higher Ed has an uncommonly good argument against a Congressional proposal for price controls on tuition: A name-brand college that charges $50,000 per year raises its sticker...
View ArticleChanging the Higher Education System: Lowering Costs, Improving Outcomes
Richard Vedder presented the following remarks on November 15, 2013 at a Free Market Forum in San Diego sponsored by Hillsdale College on “Markets, Government, and the Common Good.” Let me present you...
View ArticleDual-Enrollment Programs Can Cut Costs and Accelerate Degrees
For many students, the last year of high school can seem inconsequential and tedious. Indeed, a report from the University of Chicago indicates that most high-school seniors in the Chicago Public...
View ArticleFive Constructive Ways to Change American Higher Education
Richard Vedder gave the following lecture at Dartmouth College as part of their Daniel Webster Project on October 14, 2014. My thanks to Dartmouth for inviting me to participate in the Daniel Webster...
View ArticleSometimes, a Two-Year Degree Beats a Four-Year University
Most students attending universities in America will spend at least four years working toward their degree. In a society where employers regard higher education as necessary for job acquisition, it...
View ArticleImproving Federal Financial Aid and Rewarding Success
Richard Vedder delivered the following remarks at a Washington, DC Brookings Institution event on October 3, “ Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery: Improving Federal Financial Aid for Students.”...
View ArticleHow The $1.2 Trillion College Debt Crisis Is Crippling Students, Parents And...
Originally published on Forbes.com here on 8/7/2013 Total Student Loan Debt: $1 Trillion Two-thirds, that’s right, two-thirds of students graduating from American colleges and...
View ArticleThe Rise And Fail Of The Five-Year College Degree
Originally published at forbes.com here on 7/25/13 Taking Five Years These days, only 49% of students that enter one of our America’s Best Colleges will graduate on-time, if at all. Now that the mantra...
View ArticleHarnessing the Profit Motive to Transform Education
The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London – one of the most prominent and influential think tanks in the world – recently released The Profit Motive in Education: Continuing the Revolution, a...
View ArticleNPR Talks Study Abroad
Earlier this month, NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” hosted Augustana College (IL)’s Mark Salisbury, for a conversation on study abroad programs and whether they are worth it. It’s worth a listen.
View ArticleSome Student Loans are Aid
Although I largely agree with the generalized idea that Jonathan pointed out here, namely that student loans are not aid (even if they are originated by the Federal government), I believe that one can...
View ArticleMilton Friedman on Universities
While perusing in the archives, I came across this quote from Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman on the business model of universities (in a 1991 interview with Forbes magazine) that is as salient now as...
View ArticleNow That’s Some Business Model!
If you want to learn more about the University of Michigan’s costs, finances and tuition pricing policies? How about enrolling in a course offered by UM entitled, “The Challenge of College...
View ArticleSUNY Moves to Address Student Debt?
The State University of New York System announced recently a new statewide effort to reduce the rates of defaults on student loans. This plan is the most comprehensive one attempted by a large state...
View ArticleForward on Student Loans
In terms of a refreshing, step-back-and-look-at-the-big-picture, Bryan Caplan’s answers to objections to a free market in educational loans is at the top of the list.
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