In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources.
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The College Accreditation Scam
Parents and students who breathe a sigh of relief because the college of their choice is “accredited” may want to wait to exhale.
Consensus on Academic Bloat
A man who Accuracy in Academia rarely sees eye-to-eye with nonetheless makes a good point in the October 8, 2010 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Social Science=Student Debt
College graduates who inhaled the exotic curricula their alma maters offer up are learning a hard lesson: Nobody really cares about them off campus.
Campus Leisure World
In a bizarre twist of fate, many college students may be living even better than their parents while at school.
Nickle and Dimed
Long before America became accustomed to corporate fat cats asking for handouts like well-dressed homeless people, a cadre of millionaires has been subsidized by Uncle Sam with precious little oversight. Of course, we’re talking about college presidents.
Speaking of Change…
When 11 percent of Yale’s senior class, 10 percent of Georgetown’s and 9 percent of Harvard’s head off to teach at some of America’s most impoverished inner city schools for the next couple of years, something’s going on.
Illusory Economic Growth
Yet another widely held perception in academia is the idea that somehow universities contribute to economic growth although the exact cause and effect is hard to pin down.
Extravagance without Accountability
Of all the myths that the higher education establishment has perpetuated, perhaps none is more pervasive, or contributes as much to the preservation of the status quo, as the notion that the blame for tuition hikes lay somewhere other than the central offices of universities
Government Aid Subsidizes Wealthy
From inside academia, leading officials are starting to admit that government aid to education is increasingly going to the well-off.
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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