Conservative criticisms of the modern university are as old as modern conservatism itself. And yet criticism has not led to a reformation of the university. Quite the opposite: Despite conservative complaints, our universities have continued to drift even farther away from the ideas and forms that…
When is a college acceptance letter not a college acceptance letter? When a school suddenly realizes that it has 800 more freshmen than it knows what to do with. This is what happened last month at the University of California, Irvine, which—in an effort to reduce that number—started rescinding…
When is a college acceptance letter not a college acceptance letter? When a school suddenly realizes that it has 800 more freshmen than it knows what to do with. This is what happened last month at the University of California, Irvine, which—in an effort to reduce that number—started rescinding…
Today on the Daily Standard podcast, Preston Cooper of the American Enterprise Institute joins host Eric Felten to find out why, whether good times or bad, the price of college tuition keeps going up.
It's that time of year again: Graduating high school students, consumed by "senioritis," are making that all-important decision of which college or university they will attend. And their parents, consumed by anxiety, are aghast at the ever-growing cost of higher education.
It's that time of year again: Graduating high school students, consumed by "senioritis," are making that all-important decision of which college or university they will attend. And their parents, consumed by anxiety, are aghast at the ever-growing cost of higher education.
The Obama administration's income-driven repayment program will cost more than twice as much as the Department of Education initially thought it would, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
The Obama administration's latest assault on for-profit colleges—a broadened borrower-defense-to-repayment rule from the Department of Education—could have quite a few collateral victims. First of all, the rule is broad enough to rain down costly lawsuits on traditional, nonprofit colleges as well…
We're used to hearing Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren shout about college affordability, rallying hoards of debt-ridden youth with stats of bankers' bonuses compared to rising tuition costs.
Free college is still a potent rallying cry for the stalwart Bernie Sanders youth. Hope for debt-free education ought to be wilting along with Sanders' campaign—and yet, not unlike the delusional conviction of the socialist senator's young devotees, it has yet to fade.
"Congratulations" the Wall Street Journal wrote in late 2009. "You're about to own $100 billion a year in student loans." They weren't kidding.
Most student loans in the United States are guaranteed by the federal government. The main difference between private loans and the guaranteed loans is that the former usually come with a higher interest rate: Students generally don’t seek these out until they cannot access guaranteed loans any…
So Bernie Sanders, who wants to make college education "free," just tweeted out the following:
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the topic of higher education at a Shelby County Chamber of Commerce membership luncheon. Joe Arnold, political editor for WHAS-TV, tweeted some quotes from McConnell during the event.
On Monday, Hillary Clinton is unveiling her solution to college debt. The solution is nothing new — it makes taxpayers pick up the bill.
My father is one of the reasons that student loans cannot normally be discharged via bankruptcy. Such an outcome was never his goal: quite the opposite, in fact, because exempting student debt from bankruptcy relief makes little economic sense and is patently unfair to the students saddled with…
President Obama on Friday will "speak with juniors and graduating seniors and their parents about the need to prevent interest rates on federal subsidized student loans from doubling on July 1" at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the White House…
The House of Representatives voted 215-195 to keep federal student loan rates at their current level of 3.4 percent, offsetting the cost by eliminating a $5.9 billion fund created by Obamacare. The Associated Press reports:
I know what you're thinking. But he did everything right!:
Via the Twitter feed of Fareed Zakaria, a brief snapshot into the terrifying future of higher education. Currently, more American students are majoring in visual and performing arts than engineering:
President Obama announced Wednesday he will issue an executive order for the federal government to reduce student loan payments with measures that almost surely will have taxpayers picking up the tab. Americans owe $1 trillion in college debt, and some 1.6 million have subsidized student loans,…
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