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Showing posts with label Coronavirus pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coronavirus pandemic. Show all posts
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Do you feel the love? Universities pay off student debts with your money

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 I bought a Subaru in 2019, and the company promised to make a $250 donation to one of four Subaru-selected charities.  Subaru calls this p...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

An online college education: What is it worth?

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 In olden times, college students took classes in the ivy-covered halls of universities.  Male professors showed up for class wearing profes...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

SUNY chancellor Jim Malatras chirps cheerily while college enrollment applications plunge 20 percent

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 College enrollment applications plunged 20 percent at the State University of New York, an enormous college system with 64 campuses. The c...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

College professors are burned out by the coronavirus pandemic: Hey, join the friggin' club!

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 College professors are burned out by the coronavirus epidemic. According to Liz McMillen, Executive Editor of  The Chronicle of Higher Educ...
Saturday, January 2, 2021

Say goodbye to your golden years: 100 million Americans have no retirement savings

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According to the    National Insitute on Retirement Security , more than 100 million Americans have no retirement savings whatsoever.  As Di...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Small private colleges are going down: Don't get trapped under the rubble

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 Inside Higher Education carried a story today about major cuts being made at three higher education institutions. Marquette University, a ...
Friday, November 13, 2020

Declining enrollments, a barrage of Title IX litigation and now COVID 19 lawsuits: Weak colleges will succumb to multiple woes

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 How many times have we seen those nature programs showing thousands of wildebeests thundering across the African plains, trailed by hungry ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Did colleges engage in a bait-and-switch scam to maximize revenues during the coronavirus pandemic?

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According to a recent article in the Washington Examiner , American universities lured students back to campus this fall by deceptively prom...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Colleges urged to go test optional: We don't need no stinkin' standardized admission tests!

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More and more colleges are admitting new students without requiring them to take a traditional standardized admissions test: the ACT or SAT...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Google says you can skip college: Uh-oh!

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Universities have been whistling past the graveyard for years, Ignoring the signs of rot in their industry, they just rolled along through t...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, has 444 students. Roughly ten percent tested positive for COVID-19. Think about it

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 When I was four years old, my father told me the most harrowing story of my childhood--perhaps the most harrowing story of my life. In the...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

One in four young Americans contemplated suicide in June: Will they feel better if they take out student loans and go to college?

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms what Americans already know: The coronavirus pandemic is harmful to our mental...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Three moves equal one fire: In these troubled times, shelter should be the first priority.

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In the early 20th century, a lot of Americans in the rural South were tenant farmers; and they often moved from farm to farm to remain emplo...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Coronavirus update: The Fed bought $428 million of corporate debt while distressed student-loan debtors get diddly squat

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Perhaps you have noticed, as I have, that a high percentage of the George Floyd protestors are young White people.  Youthful White men and ...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Planning on going to college this fall? Why not wait a year or two?

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Since time immemorial, middle-class parents have urged their children to get a college education. A college degree, parents believed, was th...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

To hell with social distancing: Let's loot the liquor store!

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Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on Memoria Day. Riots began in Minneapolis on the following day and quickly spread across the country. Wi...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Second (and kinder) thoughts about distance learning at the universities during the coronavirus pandemic

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Not long ago, I commented on the mass shift to distance learning at American universities, which were forced to close their campuses last Ma...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

One-day bankruptcies for corporations and decade-long bankruptcy proceedings for student debtors: Is that fair?

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Jonathan Henes, a corporate attorney, wrote an  op-ed essay  for the  Wall Stree Journa l a few days ago calling for Congress to codify one...
Monday, May 4, 2020

Angry students sue more than 50 colleges after instruction goes on line in response to the coronavirus

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A bunch of black swans showed up this spring, and they landed on top of every college administration building in America. Last March, virt...