University Budget Hardships Continue
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pmThe New York Times reported yesterday that during the period covering last summer and fall university endowments took their largest loss in value since the…
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Conservatives Attack Student Aid in Stimulus
By Pedro de la Torre - Jan 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pmFunding for education and student aid is becoming a favorite target of conservative criticism of the economic stimulus plan currently being considered in Congress. For…
A New G.I. Bill?
By Kay Steiger - Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThere’s an op-ed this morning in Inside Higher Ed by Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, that proposes a “new G.I.…
2008 Installment of Freshman Thoughts and Values
By Emily Rutherford - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 amI only wish I could have taken part in this survey: the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA has published the latest installment in its…
One Day, I Rejected Everyone With a “D” in Their Name
By Jesse Singal - Jan 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pmVia Amy Benfer of Broadsheet, The Daily Beast has a juicy article [late edit: I forgot that Ned posted on this last week as well]…
We Don’t Really Educate Our Athletes
By Jesse Singal - Jan 13th, 2009 at 3:11 pmGregg Easterbrook makes a really good point about student-athletes in his weekly football column:
Last week, the New York Times had a story about the…
College Donations Can Go to Small Schools Too
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pmMatthew Yglesias (a Harvard graduate) writes :
[G]iving money to wealthy elite universities still doesn’t make much sense. If you want to donate to something…
Campus Beat: Good Reporting For Once, the Ivy League, Drugs As Usual
By Emily Rutherford - Nov 24th, 2008 at 9:30 amNothing wrong with a little aggressive self-promotion: this week’s Campus Beat headline goes to a political demonstration at Princeton that I’m helping to organize. The…
At Temple College, Don’t Say “Gott Ist Tot”
By Kay Steiger - Nov 4th, 2008 at 4:44 pmWhile everyone is worry about the election today, this news item from Inside Higher Ed is just weird. A professor from Temple College, a community…
Do College Professors Influence Their Students’ Political Views?
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pmShort answer: No
Longer answer: According to research done by some public policy professors at George Mason University and other schools, there is no discernible…
Pell Grant Use Up
By Kay Steiger - Oct 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pmToday George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, released a statement about a study that shows Pell Grant use is higher…
Expensive Colleges Feel the Economic Crisis, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pmYou’d think with a hefty tuition of almost $50,000 a year per student the most expensive colleges in the country would be comfortably insulated from…
“Plenty of kids need 10 pages on Hamlet by Thursday”
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 27th, 2008 at 11:16 amI’d wager that most UVA students who frequent Alderman Library (the “main” library on Grounds at the University) have seen the short older man with…
Free Bike? No, It’s Not Being Offered By a Creepy Guy in a Van
By Tristan Fowler - Oct 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 amHow’s this for innovation? Colleges and universities are giving away free bikes so students don’t bring their carbon-spewing, planet-killing cars to campus. The University of…
Crunching Private Student Loans
By Kay Steiger - Oct 22nd, 2008 at 5:33 pmA new study, Inside Higher Ed reports, shows that while “few [students] were deterred in any real way from pursuing their education” this fall, “the…
