Higher Education

In the wake of The Chronicle releasing its annual survey of college tuition, which revealed that 58 private colleges charge at least $50,000 for tuition, fees, room, and board, David K. Randall of Forbes asks, “Is a private school that charges $50,000 a year worth it?” He quotes a Forbes story from 2007 that would […]

“For the better part of the last decade,” writes Travis Reindl over at Higher Ed Watch, “the higher education community has debated the question of whether public colleges and universities are on the path to privatization.” It’s a question that is growing more heated because of our current predicament: The current state fiscal meltdown, which […]

Eric Rauchway has a roundup of news pertaining to the University of California system. As you can probably imagine, it is not pretty.

Students Over Banks has a nice collection of recent editorials, blog posts, letters to the editor, and articles on SAFRA. Here. I particularly enjoyed this paragraph from a column in Eastern Michigan University’s The Eastern Echo: But why does the U.S. government give billions to private lenders every year just so these lenders can loan […]

Young America’s Foundation is a once-important, fascinatingly retrograde conservative youth organization that is, at the moment at least, hapless when it comes to getting young people interested in conservatism. I wrote the group a “letter” when I was at Campus Progress, noting that it is obsessed with socialism at a time when young people don’t […]

In Inside Higher Ed, Donald E. Heller, a Penn State professor, notes that in late 2007 and early 2008, responding to pressure from Congress to stop sitting on so much of their endowments, “Harvard, Yale and several other highly selective universities enriched their financial aid programs to guarantee that students from families well up the […]

From Inside Higher Ed: Students and parents will be able to import their tax information directly from the IRS website to the online FAFSA in a pilot program beginning early next year, a representative of the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid program revealed during Wednesday’s negotiated rulemaking session on the verification of information on student […]

When professors were recently asked about technology on campus, here’s what they said: -5 percent said that their institution “understands how they use or want to use technology.” – 67 percent are happy with their own technology professional development. -74 percent said that they incorporate technology into every class or almost every class. -64 percent […]

Interesting scene from a debate about the utility of Twitter between W. Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, and Bruce Maas, CIO of the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, at the annual Educause conference in Denver: Maas, representing a more sober view of Twitter’s educational utility, pointed to […]

Greed and college athletics: talk about two concepts I never thought would collide! And yet: ORLANDO, Fla. — A fight over the shoes Michael Jordan’s son will wear at the University of Central Florida has cost the school any future sponsorship with adidas. “The University of Central Florida has chosen not to deliver on their […]