Richard Vedder on InstaVision
Yesterday Richard Vedder appeared on “InstaVision” on PJTV to chat with host Glenn Reynolds about the high cost of college:
View ArticleUdacity Teams Up with San Jose State
The New York Times today broke the news that Sebastian Thrun’s Udacity is partnering with San Jose State University to offer “a series of remedial and introductory courses” to students. This...
View ArticleIf We Only Fix 15%, It’s Still 85% Broken
Talk about really missing the forest for the trees (or finding the speck in your neighbor’s eye while ignoring the plank in your own, or whatever metaphor one prefers), but this story by Michael...
View ArticleQuote of the Week (from Last Week)
Arthur Brooks: In the end, however, the case for the 10K-B.A. is primarily moral, not financial. The entrepreneurs who see a way for millions to go to college affordably are the ones who understand the...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Commuters vs. On-campus Residents on Loans
UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) recently released its Freshman Survey, the 2012 Freshman Norms, which reports responses from just under 200,000 first-time, full-time students entering...
View ArticleSometimes Truth Is Almost as Strange as Fiction
George Leef directed my attention to this tongue-in-cheek blog post by Don Boudreaux who imagines what it would look like if someone in Congress pushed for a “minimum grade” law. This may not be all...
View ArticleA New True Believer in the Bennett Hypothesis?
Occasionally the Bennett Hypothesis, which holds that federal financial-aid programs contribute to college-tuition increases, gains support from unlikely sources. A year ago, for example, Richard...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Loan Delinquency Rates
According to data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in the fourth quarter of 2012, delinquency rates on outstanding household debt fell overall (from 8.9 percent in the third quarter...
View ArticleYesterday’s House Committee Hearing on Student Loans
Yesterday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on student loans (the official title was “Keeping College within Reach: Examining Opportunities to Strengthen Federal...
View ArticleRising Prices: College Tuition vs. the CPI
As time passes, college administrators make health-care providers appear miserly. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) has risen...
View ArticleThoughts on Cooper Union
The news that Cooper Union will, effective 2014, charge undergraduates tuition (the school, with a sticker price of $40,250, automatically offers all undergraduate students a full-tuition scholarship)...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Average Discount Rate
Earlier this week Kevin Kiley’s reporting for InsideHigherEd on the recent NACUBO report on tuition discounting included this interesting chart.
View ArticleChart of the Week: State Appropriations and Public Tuitions
The chart below depicts the change in real state appropriations (per full-time equivalent enrollment) and the change in real public tuition and fees, with both indexed to 1980-81 levels. In academic...
View ArticleA Small Step for a President, A Giant Leap for Higher Ed
A little while ago, the Los Angeles Times reported that Timothy P. White, who will soon become the chancellor of the Cal State System at the end of this month, has requested that the portion of his...
View ArticleChart of the Week: Financial Aid by Source and Type
According to data provided by the College Board (see, specifically, the link for “Figure 2″), total student financial aid total $237 billion in academic year 2011-12. As the chart below shows, however,...
View ArticleRichard Vedder on InstaVision
Yesterday Richard Vedder appeared on “InstaVision” on PJTV to chat with host Glenn Reynolds about the high cost of college:
View ArticleUdacity Teams Up with San Jose State
The New York Times today broke the news that Sebastian Thrun’s Udacity is partnering with San Jose State University to offer “a series of remedial and introductory courses” to students. This...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the IU Tuition Freeze
Last month’s announcement by Indiana University that they will freeze tuition for some students presents an interesting experiment in keeping down higher-education costs, along with student loans. If,...
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.
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...
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