by Anna Durrett The ability to go to college has long been held as a high water mark of success, so much so that an undergraduate degree…
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by Marty Nemko We have, for decades, accepted that graduates earn $1 million more than non-graduates over their lifetime. That statistic is misleading for a number of…
By Derick E. Hingle Les Miles, coach of the top-ranked LSU Tigers, is among the highest paid coaches in the country. So, at a time of tightening…
Harvard University lost its top spot for the first time in eight years in a global ranking of higher education institutions, being overtaken by the California Institute…
By Nick Martin Three University of Manitoba professors have launched a scathing attack on their university for employing far more male than female professors and for allegedly…
by Daniel Indiviglio You think the housing bubble was enormous? Meet the education bubble. A recent article here by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus explained the debt crisis…
By P.D. Lesko I had the pleasure of publishing Jack Longmate’s writing many years ago. He has been writing and speaking out on behalf of Washington State’s…
By P.D. Lesko I had the pleasure of publishing Jack Longmate’s writing many years ago. He has been writing and speaking out on behalf of Washington State’s…
by Andy Kroll Here’s a shocking new statistic that puts the ongoing regulatory battle between for-profit colleges—the University of Phoenix, Kaplan University, and so on—and the Department…
By Stephen Burd By any measure, November 2nd was a great day for the for-profit higher education industry. With the Republicans regaining control of the House of…