Campus CFO’s Are Right
On most campuses, the chief business manager, now most often called “CFO” is not a very popular person. If college life was viewed as the equivalent of one big party (and for some it is), then the CFO...
View ArticleOnly 40 Percent of Pell Grant Recipients Get Bachelor’s Degrees
Let me start off with a caveat (no doubt, newspaper and magazine editors would tell you, a horrible way to start a blog post): The headline on this epistle is “informed speculation” on my part....
View ArticleThe Texas Accountability Debate Rages On
With Texas Gov. Rick Perry at–or near the top–in polls to be the Republican nominee for President, his proposals for higher ed reform as Governor are gaining attention (if that is even possible, given...
View ArticleKaplan CEO Is Right on Target About Traditional Higher Education
Andrew Rosen has written a great new book on higher education in America, Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy. It is provocative, insightful, and mostly correct. Yet, I predict, it will...
View ArticleThe Lucas Critique Visits Higher Ed
The idea of altering how colleges are funded is getting a lot of attention, as it should. But some ideas are getting more attention than they warrant– I’ll single out the idea of tying funding to...
View ArticleDo Developments in Chile Presage What Is to Come in the US?
My CCAP colleague Michael Koslen alerted me to this blog post at InsideHigherEd by Andrés Bernasconi: Chile’s Ministry of Education has launched a web portal offering with unprecedented detail...
View ArticleHigher Education’s Increasing Disdain for Virtue
One of the major rationales for public subsidies of higher education is that colleges are supposed to make students more virtuous–better persons. We are told a college education strengthens awareness...
View ArticleFive Constructive Ways to Change American Higher Education
Richard Vedder gave the following lecture at Dartmouth College as part of their Daniel Webster Project on October 14, 2014. My thanks to Dartmouth for inviting me to participate in the Daniel Webster...
View ArticleFederal College Ratings Will Harm Higher Education
On August 22, President Obama outlined his plan to make college more affordable for students and limit the financial strain that loans place on graduates. The new plan measures college performance and,...
View ArticleThe Inherent Difficulty of Measuring Teacher Quality
The primary purpose of colleges and universities is to educate their students, and it’s necessary for professors at these institutions to teach effectively. Evaluating the teaching quality of...
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