Minjae Park

For all the mentions of Harvard in movies, few film crews actually get permission to shoot in Harvard Yard. As a 1999 story in the Harvard Crimson explains, the 1969 filming of “Love Story” created such a mess—damaging and killing trees with fake snow—that Harvard decided to adopt a stricter policy when allowing commercial film […]

Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, has introduced a bill to stop federal funds from going to unaccredited college programs that leave graduates unable to find work in that field of study. Stephen Burd, a senior policy analyst in the Education Policy Program at the New America Foundation who has written for the Washington Monthly about abusive […]

The percentage of households with student loan debt grew most for the upper-middle class—those with incomes between the 80th and 95th percentiles—from 2007 to 2010, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s analysis defined upper-middle-income households as those with annual incomes between the 80th and 95th percentiles of all households nationwide. […]

In response to three decades of tuition increases, some colleges will not charge students and families more this coming school year, according to a story in the Hechinger Report. California, Arizona, and Maine have decided to freeze tuition at their university systems (though California’s freeze depends on voters approving a tax increase in November). Some […]

We often hear chatter about the “structural issues” that ail our economy, such as a supposed skills mismatch that is restraining hiring. Take, for example, The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman in a column this May: “The Labor Department reported two weeks ago that even with our high national unemployment rate, employers advertised 3.74 million […]

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh released his report detailing how Penn State officials failed to act upon learning Jerry Sandusky sexually abused children. The NCAA imposed a heavy punishment on Penn State that includes a four-year ban on bowl games, a $60 million fine, and a vacation of the football program’s victories since 1998. The […]

The question of whether or not to remove the bronze statue of Joe Paterno outside Penn State’s football stadium has become the subject of debate in the wake of former FBI director Louis Freeh’s report on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. NFL Network’s Kimberly Jones tweeted Friday morning, “Am told that Penn State […]

Stephen M. Ross’s donation in 2004 to rename the University of Michigan business school the Ross School of Business: $100 million. David G. Booth’s donation in 2008 to rename the University of Chicago business school the Booth School of Business: $300 million. Renaming elite schools isn’t cheap. Here’s a list compiled by a Quora user […]

Speaking at the National Governors Association on Friday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged states to “meet us halfway by doing more to keep college costs down.” “We’ve made some progress,” he said, “but the combination of deep state budget cuts and rising tuition prices is pushing an affordable college education out of reach for […]