End the University as We Know It
Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not...
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Economist Justin Wolfers recently opined that “this is the worst idea ever.” I think it is actually the second-worst idea ever — the worst was the creation of federally subsidized student loans in the...
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Years ago, College was an intense experience of the life of the mind where one sampled from the deepest veins of human learning; reading the classics, studying ancient languages, reading the...
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Is College Overrated? Yesand too Expensive? YesAre We Unjust to Require College Degrees As Often As We Do? YesWhy should one assume that the people in academia are all pure and perfect angels?The...
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Bankruptcy lawyers have a frightening message for America: They’re seeing the telltale signs of a student loan debt bubble that is placing increased financial pressure on families struggling with...
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Harvard is a terrible mess of a place, an incubator for an American ruling class that is smug, self-congratulatory, and intellectually adrift.--Ross Douthat
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Sen. Rubio Discusses Student Loans on the Senate Floor
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Although 37 million adults owe student loans, only 39 percent are actually paying down balances. Some 5.4 million have at least one loan past due; loans totaling $270 billion are at least 30 days...
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Many of my friends and readers are disheartened by recent cultural and political trends. Many blame our universities and wonder whether we can ever restore sanity in our nation, given that the enemy...
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Intellectual Standards = a Politics of Exclusion?Universities today have lowered their standards of admission and accepted more students regardless of their level of preparation. For example, at the...
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The thinking in the Educational Establishment is overwhelmingly progressive, just as it is political culture. The idea behind democracy is equality, and it has become a matter of faith that democracy...
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Well if you didn't already believe it, there's a study that confirms it now. A college degree is more likely to skew a person's political beliefs to the liberal side of the spectrum ...
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Student loan debt forgiveness? Or welfare for banks?!A client once approached me with a problem: her student loan debt was beginning to drastically detract from her quality of life. Federally backed...
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