College Cost & Funding
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On the Death of Borders
Scott Leslie asked me a great question a year ago that I never forgot. In the middle of a discussion about the decline of newspapers and it’s relation to the impending implosion of higher ed he asked me, since I was defending institutional relevance, to name one case where an entrenched industry made changes and Continue reading
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What if broadband DOESN’T eat everything?
From A.V. Club: The sky is still up and water is still wet, but the truism that the music industry is circling the drain appears—at least for now—to be reversing itself ever-so-slightly. Consequence Of Sound gathers the evidence, beginning with a story from Exclaim noting that album sales in North America are up for the Continue reading
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The Great Threat to Higher Education is Medical Costs, Not Bubbles
To be clear about my last post, there are some catastrophic economics of higher education down the pike; they just aren’t bubbles. The biggest one? Rising health costs for seniors and the disabled. As health care takes bigger and bigger chunks out of the GDP it is going to crowd out spending on a lot Continue reading
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The “Tuition Bubble” and Degree Oversupply
There’s a lot of neat stuff in Carnevale and Rose’s The Undereducated American (and if you can’t read the whole thing, the first ten or so pages are essentially a Powerpoint of the findings — they will take you all of two minutes to flip through; you have no excuse). One of my favorite pieces Continue reading
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U.S. says colleges with big tuition hikes must explain
U.S. says colleges with big tuition hikes must explain This is almost sadly funny. So there’s all these tuition hikes, particularly at state colleges. It’s out-of-control spending, right? So the DoEd is asking colleges that have the sharpest hikes to explain why they are being so profligate with money. Except, as everyone knows who actually Continue reading
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Plan to Restructure British Higher Ed
Plan to Restructure British Higher Ed I wish I knew more about the British educational system to say for sure, but this sure looks like the voucher slide to me: Willetts, the universities and science minister, said the “conceptual shift” was that the whole framework of regulation needed to focus on “the student in receipt Continue reading
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U.S. College Tuition Rises 4.6%, Beating Inflation
U.S. College Tuition Rises 4.6%, Beating Inflation It pays to read these things carefully. Tuition at private non-profit colleges increased at 4.6%, but adjusted for inflation this was a 1% increase, one of the smallest in the past 40 years. And again, these are published prices: student aid is up 7% which means this is less Continue reading
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