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When college and university representatives urge you to get an advanced degree, you may want to get a second opinion.

Can it be that the federal government has been waging war on for-profit colleges because, with all their problems, they still make traditional institutions of higher learning look bad? For example, the Obama Administration famously created a “gainful employment” rule for for-profits to follow in which they would be barred from receiving Pell grants if […]

The good news is that the Left has noticed what a scam college accreditation is. The bad news: They want the federal government to take it over. “Accreditors are self-regulating membership organizations,” Ben Miller, David Bergeron and Carmel Martin write in a report released this month by the Center for American Progress (CAP).  “This means […]

A great take by Richard Vedder: The public is increasingly interested in and incensed about sharp increases in the pay of top university officials. Those increases seem hard to justify at a time of high tuition fees, when more colleges face a shaky financial future as enrollments level off or decline and taxpayer and philanthropic […]

Could the time to end federal aid to higher education have long passed? “The federal government has no constitutional authority to do anything with regard to higher education (or any level, for that matter),” George Leef writes in Forbes. “But in 1965, Congress was swarming with ‘progressives’ who were sure that because college seemed to […]

An academic sets out to expose “The Great Accreditation Farce” but his efforts border on the farcical.  “By awarding accreditation to religious colleges, the process confers legitimacy on institutions that systematically undermine the most fundamental purposes of higher education,” Peter Conn wrote in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Skeptical and unfettered inquiry is the hallmark […]

One thing that Accuracy in Academia has in common with its big sister organization, Accuracy in Media, is that, upon investigation of various claims made in our respective bailiwicks—just about everything we’ve been told by elites is wrong.

The notion of a college education as a path to material success is starting to require artificial respiration.

The federal government tries to replace questionable education policies with a question mark.

Parents, students and taxpayers ultimately footing the bill for the epic cost of college should have buyers’ remorse.

Academia has to be the one sector in American life over the past half century in which the portions have become diluted while the costs have gone through the roof.

Often we find that what is most revealing in covering the higher education beat is what academics reveal about themselves.