Mitt Romney

Mushrooming Student Debt Becomes A Hot-Button Political Issue. Should It?

by Josh Boak The White House and Democratic lawmakers are scrambling to find funds to stop an expected doubling of student loan interest rates this summer, arguing that they’re heading off another potential blow to the economy. But the new House GOP budget doesn’t include...

Fretting About “Liberal” College Profs. & Young, Impressionable Undergrads? GOP Candidates Are in A Time Warp…

by Barbara Shelley College isn’t cool on the GOP campaign trail. First we had Mitt Romney accusing President Barack Obama of hanging out, at least metaphorically, in “the faculty lounge,”.

The New Conservative Presidential Candidate: College is For Morons

By P.D. Lesko In live in Michigan and at the moment, I wish that I didn't. Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are fighting it out for the state's.

Higher Ed Experts Call President Obama’s ‘College Affordability’ Speech at U of M “political theater of the worst sort”

by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to students would remain untouched, and a cranky Congress would have to pass the President’s proposed plan. The reactions...