The admissions process at many American colleges and universities may be dramatically altered after the June 29 Supreme Court ruling that overturns the practice of broadly applying racial considerations in the selection of incoming students. The 6–3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College upends the longstanding practice…
ANALYSIS: Colleges Likely to Seek Workarounds in Aftermath of Ban on Affirmative Action
June 29, 2023
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Student Debt Forgiveness Won’t Cure Higher Ed’s Disease
March 14, 2023
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Commentary On Feb. 28, the Supreme Court heard arguments on President Biden’s plan to extinguish an estimated $400 billion in student debt. Biden deserves credit for highlighting a debilitating federal program in desperate need of reform. His proposal, however, would make the problem far worse, not better. Any serious reform would force academic institutions to…
College Industrial Complex’s Left-wing Lies
Commentary Families saving for college and encouraging their kids to aim for the top are getting scammed by the left-wing college industrial complex. Colleges distort and outright lie about who gets accepted, education quality, and what it costs. If they were selling auto loans and used the same deceptive tactics, they’d be in jail. Columbia…
A College Degree Is Not a Credential
Commentary Mark S. (withholding the real name) worked four years to earn his B.A. in economics and then went ahead to get an M.A. in finance, which took another two years. In total he spent $250,000, half of which he borrowed and still owes, plus the income foregone for the time he spent is at…
American Education in Crisis, House Committee Witnesses Testify
Parents must have a say in their children’s upbringing, witnesses testified before the House Committee on Education on Feb. 9 in Congress, and teachers’ unions must be held accountable for rejecting transparency and teaching students gender ideology. “Unfortunately, too many forces within the education system insist on prioritizing the promotion of ideologies over academic instruction,” Virginia…
The Decline and Fall of the University
February 9, 2023
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Commentary Since retiring from the university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone from being the best in the world to one of the most pathetic. Why? It’s hard to describe what academia was to…
Conservative Student Group Mobilizes Thousands of Activists to Push for School Choice
January 20, 2023
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A conservative student group is investing $1 million dollars to push for school choice legislation in 14 states that would give students funds for an education outside of the public school system, the organization told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), an organization focused on educating the youth on American electoral politics,…
Biden Education Department’s Latest Plan for Socializing Higher Education
Commentary The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday released new rules for income-based repayment of student loans, in what amounts to nothing less than a new socialism of higher education. The scheme will cause a massive inflow of loans into the new system and cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars. Income-based repayment is affordable by definition….
‘The Great Awakening’: While Students Flee Public Universities, Christian Schools Are Only Getting Bigger
January 11, 2023
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Christian colleges and universities are seeing an increase in enrollment despite the national enrollment rate of college students being on a decline, higher education experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The national undergraduate enrollment rate dropped 1.1 percent during the fall 2022 semester while the rate declined a total of 4.2 percent since 2020, according to…
Are Universities Doomed?
Commentary In a famous exchange in the “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” “Gradually” and “suddenly” applies to higher education’s implosion. During the 1990s “culture wars” universities were warned that their chronic tuition hikes above the rate of inflation were…
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