Education

Molly M. Claflin, a recent graduate of Stanford Law School, had a good op-ed on student loan companies and SAFRA in Monday’s Los Angeles Times. She expresses the stakes here very clearly and forcefully: It’s hard to save the world when you know that all of your hard work is going to pay for some […]

I agree with the assertion of Emerson College administrators, as reported by The Boston Globe, that it’s not fair for The Daily Beast‘s campus safety rankings to list it as the most dangerous college in America. Emerson was required to report both on-campus crimes and those that occurred in its neighborhood. The problem is that […]

After Oregon’s disappointing opening day 19-8 football loss to Boise State on September 3rd, which featured an unfortunate altercation in which Ducks (least intimidating mascot ever) running back LeGarrette Blount punched a Boise State player (you’re not allowed to do that), an Oregon fan who had trekked from Portland to Boise for the game sent […]

Bloomberg reports that, according to the Government Accountability Office, lax oversight is leading to unqualified students getting federal aid to attend for-profit universities: The GAO said school officials or test administrators at some for-profit schools violated rules designed to ensure all student-aid recipients are qualified. Students must have a high school diploma or the equivalent, […]

When you make applying for federal financial aid easier, more low-income people do it. Fancy that!

So I get the point of schools asking for shorter and shorter writing samples on their applications. I do. In a lot of ways, you can learn more about applicants via shorter responses than longer ones, and are more likely to get an honest look at those applicants than you will if you ask them […]

Given the state of the journalism industry, you wouldn’t think that prospective students would be knocking down the doors of journalism schools, but they are. The Chronicle has an article about the burgeoning popularity of J-schools and the changes they’re making to adapt to a circa-2009 media landscape: At a time when the newspaper industry […]

The Clinton Global Initiative starts today, and Pat Garofolo of The Wonk Room was in on a meeting Clinton convened with a small group of progressive bloggers prior to the annual event’s kickoff. Clinton noted that “higher education institutions are pricing themselves into America’s decline,” and that we are therefore going to “have to change […]

Community College Week has a good story about the GI Bill and community colleges. According to a study by the American Council on Education, during the 2007-2008 school year more than twice as many military undergraduates were enrolled in community colleges than four-year institutions. Although the study predicts that this gap will close, community colleges […]

Off-topic, but I’d love to see a video like this directed at the student lending industry Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Because if we don’t help them, who will?