Faculty Lounge Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion Spencer Irvine August 1, 2016 Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial…
Faculty Lounge Big Ten Universities Require Diversity and Cultural Courses as Student Debt Balloons Spencer Irvine June 25, 2016 Diversity and culture courses are more important than financial literacy and slowing down student debts in Big Ten schools.
Faculty Lounge Dept of Ed Releases New Rules on Debt Forgiveness, For-Profit Colleges Spencer Irvine June 16, 2016 For-profit colleges now have more rules to follow, related to debt forgiveness.
Faculty Lounge College Student Upset at Large Student Loans, but Criticizes Diversity Instead Spencer Irvine May 19, 2016 True story; the student blasts the lack of diversity at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California more than the student loans issue.
Faculty Lounge North Carolina Colleges Raise Budgets, but Leave Students in Debt Spencer Irvine March 15, 2016 An excerpt from the Pope Center’s report on the state of North Carolina universities and colleges: For example, North Carolina…
Faculty Lounge Dear Millennials: We Can’t Afford ‘Free’ College Tuition Spencer Irvine February 25, 2016 It’s a great take from the Independent Institute. There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the old…
Perspectives Apprenticeships Making a Comeback? Malcolm A. Kline February 11, 2016 Somewhere between random free college for everyone and Teutonic regimentation geared towards industry is a happy medium of career choices…
Faculty Lounge Another Bad Policy Idea: Student Loan Forgiveness for Gov’t Employees Spencer Irvine December 7, 2015 Good take from our friend George Leef: Under PSLF, students who find jobs that are officially regarded as doing “public…
Faculty Lounge What are We Getting from Ballooning Student Loans? Not Much Spencer Irvine November 4, 2015 Megan McArdle’s great take on the crazy environment that is America’s $1 trillion student loan bubble.
Faculty Lounge Where Student Loans = Revenue for Colleges, Universities Spencer Irvine November 2, 2015 Eye-opening chart from the Academe Blog, who cited a Brookings Institute chart.
Faculty Lounge 50% of College Graduates say College Education was Worth The Cost Spencer Irvine October 8, 2015 As The Chronicle of Higher Education reported, only half of recent college graduates say their undergraduate education and cost were…
Perspectives Young Convinceables Cliff Kincaid September 23, 2015 Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the socialist running for president, we are learning that one of the latest examples…
