Harry Lambert wrote an article for The New Statesman titled The great university con: how the British degree lost its value. « Never before has Britain had so many qualified graduates. And never before have their qualifications amounted to so little. » Continue reading “The great university con: how the British degree lost its value”
Executive Compensation at Public and Private Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published data on Executive Compensation at Public and Private Colleges. Continue reading “Executive Compensation at Public and Private Colleges”
Putting Art in STEM
In a 2014 New York Times article, Henry Fountain wrote about the STEAM initiative, adding art to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). « Engineering and art were not always completely separate disciplines. Take Leonardo da Vinci, who seamlessly combined the two. » Continue reading “Putting Art in STEM”
Net tuition revenue has been falling
In a Wall Street Journal interview with Bard College president Leon Botstein, I found this section, although tangential, to be of particular interest:
« Few private colleges… are able to make their sticker prices stick. When he arrived, “from every tuition dollar that we charged, we got 88 cents… Now we get 50 cents. What’s called the net tuition revenue, in all institutions, has been falling.” »
This reminds me of a book I reviewed called The Higher Education Bubble.
Ballooning bureaucracies fuel ballooning tuition
Heather MacDonald wrote an article for City Journal titled The College Bureaucracy That Never Shrinks.
“The discourse around student debt—which now stands at $1.5 trillion—holds colleges harmless in causing that debt… But college tuition is not an act of God, beyond human control. It is a result of decisions taken by colleges themselves—above all, decisions to bulk up their bureaucracies. Continue reading “Ballooning bureaucracies fuel ballooning tuition”
Articles of Interest 