Higher Education

In the Room for Debate section of today’s New York Times Web site, six experts look at the cost of public higher education, particularly given the 32 percent fee increase at the University of California. As the introduction explains: Student protesters said that the higher costs will make it even harder for middle class and […]

In an editorial in the State Press, the student newspaper of Arizona State University, the author assesses how the tuition increase at the University of California might matter outside of the Golden State. California’s state schools needed to raise tuition hike because of the state’s cash shortage. As the State Press explains, the money shortage […]

A piece in today’s Boston Globe indicates that high school students are willing to contribute to the cost of college: A recent survey – the annual “College Savings Indicator’’ study by Fidelity Investments – found that parents of college-bound children in high school say they can cover only 11 percent of college costs, down from […]

The fitness examination for college graduation is nothing new but historically this was a sort of token test. Many colleges require students to swim the length of the pool or something to graduate. Well no longer. More than 25 seniors at Lincoln University might not graduate in the spring because they: Had body mass index […]

Researchers in the United Kingdom argue that England’s most exclusive universities should seek to diversify their student body. According to the article yesterday in the Daily Mail the Higher Education Policy Institute‘s Bahram Bekhradnia and Oxford’s Juliet Chester indicate that: Oxford and Cambridge should ‘explicitly discriminate’ against middle-class applicants with top grades to ensure a […]

Earlier this year the District of Columbia finally got a community college, the Community College of the District of Columbia (or CCDC). A few welcomed this institution as a positive, or at least interesting, development for DC. The problem was that the new community college was linked to the Distinct of Columbia’s existing state (or […]

According to an article yesterday in the New York Times, some colleges are now making another effort to deter binge drinking. Only now it’s not just frat parties and pre-gaming that are concerns. The University of Minnesota has a new program: Modeled after a program at the University of Wisconsin, Check BAC [Blood Alcohol Content] […]

The New York Times had an update yesterday on the 32 percent tuition increase voted yesterday by the regents of the University of California. The piece, accompanied by photographs of student and staff protests, explains that: The vote was 20-1, with only student Regent Jesse Bernal of UC Santa Barbara voting against the increase that […]

Regarding the tuition freeze tuition freeze at public colleges in Missouri, University of Missouri System President Gary Forsee said yesterday that the hold was a step in the right direction, but not good enough. From the Columbia Missourian: “The higher education business model, the funding model, is broken,” Forsee said in a morning news conference […]

Quick housekeeping announcement: Today will be my last day blogging for the Washington Monthly. Tomorrow I am leaving Washington and heading back to my hometown of Boston to take a new job up there. I’ve greatly enjoyed my time at the Monthly and am proud of what this site has become over a short span […]