Jesse Singal

From The New York Times: Congress has not given final approval to legislation ending federal subsidies for private student loans for college. But Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sent a letter Monday to thousands of colleges and universities urging them to get ready to use the government’s Direct Loan Program in the 2010-11 school year. […]

Florida Today has a good piece about prepaid college savings plans in Florida—where tuition at state universities increased by as much as 15 percent these year, 9 percentage points above the usual annual norm—and how it is becoming more and more difficult for families to afford to enroll in them. Since the plans allow families […]

It’s getting harder to be accepted into college, right? With more and more people applying, it’s an inevitable trend. Well, maybe not. Inside Higher Ed provides some valuable debunking: The problem — according to a major research project released Monday by a leading scholar of higher education — is that there are two trends at […]

From The Chronicle: Critics have sometimes blamed the accreditation standards of the American Bar Association for driving up the cost of law school and making it more difficult for students of color to be admitted to those programs. But a report released on Monday by the Government Accountability Office says that most law schools surveyed […]

Candace de Russy raises the alarm over at Phi Beta Cons: In “First They Came for Fox News,” Claudia Rosett remarks “how dangerous it is when the President of the United States gives his staff and advisers a green light to single out and denigrate by name a specific news organization,” namely, Fox, which has […]

The idea that colleges aren’t effectively measuring what they teach their students has largely taken hold in higher education reform circles. But Inside Higher Ed reports that this isn’t problem—rather, the issue is that colleges don’t do much with this information. Those findings come from a report being released today by the National Institute for […]

This shouldn’t come as a surprise: Part of New York Gov. David Paterson’s plan to deal with the state’s $3 billion budget deficit could be a big blow to higher education. Paterson’s two year-plan would cut $90 million from the State University of New York and $53 million from the small City University of New […]

This kid is pretty great: OXFORD, England — Instead of chasing after wide receivers in the N.F.L., Myron Rolle came here to chase ghosts around the ancient campus of the University of Oxford. Rolle, 22, established himself as an elite student and athlete at Florida State, becoming a Rhodes scholar and a top N.F.L. prospect. […]

The Boston Globe has up an interesting interview with Rebecca Cox, an assistant professor of education at Seton Hall University who just wrote a book in which “she describes a wide gulf between professors, who cling tightly to an idealized image of college and its students, and anxious students, who may harbor deep doubts that […]

The Los Angeles Times reports on a rather grim scene in Fullerton, California: The busload of future college students from Whittier High School who took a field trip Wednesday to Cal State Fullerton got less — and more — than they were expecting. They didn’t get a feel for student life on campus because there […]