Reader Letter | True costs of higher education
The Courier-Journal
HENRYVILLE, IND. 47126 — Recent news stories report it, state legislators complain about it, President Obama threatens institutions of higher education about it. What is it? Higher tuition! Well, that is true for Indiana University Southeast in New ...
Articles: More Students Thinking Outside the College Box
American Thinker
A number of recent articles explore the growing trend among college-age people to question whether college is worth the costs -- both the direct costs in terms of tuition and opportunity costs in terms of lost time. In other words, many more college ...
High-Profile Studies Overrate Going to College and Picking the Right MajorThe Atlantic
How to Get the Most Return on a College InvestmentFox Business
Dawson offers free tuition for some studentsBillings Gazette
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Lexington Herald Leader
Ky. Voices: Bigger education not always better
Lexington Herald Leader
Much has been said about the problems and costs of higher education. The roots of these problems go deep as we are attempting to educate everyone in a system that was designed for the wealthy and brilliant. Federal and state governments are attempting ...
Deseret News
Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Jump Off the Coursera Bandwagon. By Doug Guthrie. Like lemmings, too many American colleges are mindlessly rushing out to find a way to deliver online education, and more and more often they are choosing Coursera. The company, founded this year by ...
Disruptive innovation: Open online courses are changing education foreverDeseret News
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Fantasy Academe: a Role for Sabermetrics
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Fantasy sports, as you may know, have helped kindle our growing national obsession with sabermetrics. This is the statistical approach to baseball pioneered by Bill James, popularized by Moneyball, and since plagiarized, with varying degrees of success ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Colleges' Concerted Campaign for Ignorance
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Four years ago, Congress passed one of the worst laws in the modern history of higher education. Under the title "Database of Student Information Prohibited," the omnibus 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act barred the Department of Education from ...
High-Profile Studies Overrate Going to College and Picking the Right MajorThe Atlantic
Articles: More Students Thinking Outside the College BoxAmerican Thinker
How to Get the Most Return on a College InvestmentFox Business
Great Falls Tribune -The Hindu -Tucson Citizen
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Transitions People in Academe
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an expert on child development and early education, will become president of Smith College in July. She will succeed Carol T. Christ, who has led the institution since 2002.
GET, other prepaid-tuition plans cost US Treasury big bucks
The Seattle Times
Tax breaks — including those that have helped boost the value of Washington's prepaid college-tuition plan — cost the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Both President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have proposed limiting ...
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Turmoil in Temple's African-American Studies Program Taking Its Toll
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
Its esteemed faculty members, coupled with the school's reputation as the first degree-granting doctoral program in African-American studies in the world, appealed to this native from Windsor Ontario, Canada, who has plans to one day become a ...
Salon
Re-inventing college for prisons
Salon
At the height of the tough-on-crime era in the mid-1990s, prisoners in New York State seeking access to college-level courses were dealt a one-two punch that seemed to deliver a crushing blow to inmate higher education. When then-President Bill Clinton ...
