Faculty Lounge Whose Got More Skin In Academic Game? Malcolm A. Kline May 15, 2018 Right now, parents and taxpayers are getting skinned off of defaulted student loans and rising tuition.
Faculty Lounge Committee Chair Seeks To Overhaul Federal Aid Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2018 U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, is seeking to overhaul America’s cumbersome system of federal aid to education. She is…
Guest Articles How About “America First” for College Admissions? Cliff Kincaid February 8, 2017 In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on…
Faculty Lounge Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt Spencer Irvine December 13, 2016 That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt?…
Faculty Lounge How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise Spencer Irvine August 23, 2016 From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find…
Faculty Lounge Two Ex-College Presidents Deny There is a Student Loan Crisis Spencer Irvine August 8, 2016 From Campus Reform: Two former college presidents are fighting the “myth” of college debt and its alleged solution of free…
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 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.
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 Catholic New Hampshire University Offers to Pay for Student Loans if Graduates Don’t Get a Job Spencer Irvine January 28, 2016 From Fox News: A small Catholic university in New Hampshire is offering its undergraduate students a program that will guarantee…
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…
