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Friday, July 18, 2014

Why Not Help Africa? American Universities Should Make a Civic Commitment to Strengthening Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Not long ago, the New York Times broke the scandal about New York University's new Abu Dhabi campus, which had been launched with much ...

Like the Crocodile, American Higher Education is Eating Its Young: Reflections While In Africa

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I just returned from Uganda, where I visited several Ugandan universities and toured a game preserve on the upper Nile River. As I viewed th...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Not With a Bang But With a Whimper: For-Profit Corinthian Colleges May Close Some Campuses

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Yesterday's New York Times carried a story in its Business Section about Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that operates under ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

The Student Debt Crisis? What Student Debt Crisis? The Brookings Institution Issues A Report Stating That The Problem of Student Debt Has Been Exaggerated

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The Brookings Institutopn issued a report a few days ago suggesting that worries about a looming student-loan crisis may not be justified.  ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Nonsense from Adam Davidson in the New York Times Magazine About the Wisdom of Young Adults Living With Their Parents

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Adam Davidson wrote an essay in the Magazine section of the New York Times about young adults who still live with their parents. The perc...
Friday, June 20, 2014

Senators Lamar Alexander and Michel Bennet Propose a Simpler FAFSA form: What a Good Idea!

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible," Albert Einstein observed, "but not simpler."  And indeed, simplicity,...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

If You Have a Student Loan, You Should Read Susan Dynarski's Proposal for Having Student Loan Payments Automatically Deducted From Debtors' Pay Checks

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Susan Dynarski If you took out a federal student loan to attend college, you should read Susan Dynarski's op ed essay in last Sunday...