Is Culinary School Worth It?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pmIt’s Top Chef season again. I’ll be making my friends some yummy food tonight while we watch the second episode. This season my favorite chef…
Posts Tagged ‘higher ed’
The RIAA Is Evil
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 5:55 pmJesse notes that Tennessee’s universities are forced to spend millions on anti-pirating software even though they’re expecting to increase tuition and lay off teachers. As…
Priorities
By Jesse Singal - Nov 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pmVia reddit, Threat Level reports:
Combating music piracy at Tennessee’s public university system is more important than hiring teachers and keeping down tuition costs.
Just-signed…
Why Can’t Conservatives Be Serious About Education?
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 19th, 2008 at 2:31 pmThe California State University system, which serves 460,000 students and is the backbone of California’s legendary public universities, is, for the first time ever, going…
Wanted: Geekettes
By Kay Steiger - Nov 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pmThere’s an interesting piece in The New York Times today about the lack of women in computer science. While women are actually starting to approach…
The College (Soon-to-be) Dropouts
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pmVia Jason Zengerle, Drake Bennett at The Boston Globe has a long, soul-crushingly dark account of what a 21st century depression would (will?) look like.…
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…
Bad Education
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmThis Harvard Crimson story encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Teach for America:
Four days ago, a select group of eighth graders from G. Gardner Shugart…
Governors Want Painless College Budget Cuts
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pmThe National Governors Association (NGA) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings yesterday asking that no state be held accountable under new laws…
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…
College Costs What?
By Jesse Singal - Oct 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pmConsumerist , via Campus Grotto , has a list of the most expensive colleges in the country (figures include tuition, room, and board):
1. Sarah…
“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…
