Wallace Hall, a University of Texas graduate, is a Regent board member of the university and had discovered a slush fund scandal that led to a dean’s resignation, in addition to a law school admission…
Topic: George Leef
Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt
That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt? This from George Leef: Bad borrowing decisions are almost impossible to escape. Consider the case…
Iowa State University Threatens Withholding Degree if Students Refuse to Undergo Harassment Training
This sounds like a threat on college students’ First Amendment rights, no? ISU students are told that they must abide by the school’s policy against “harassment” of anyone in the university community. Students must complete…
Writer: Obama has Expanded Unchecked Government Power
Our friend George Leef with the insightful read on expanding government power under Barack Obama: We face, as the book’s subtitle puts it, the unchecked expansion of the state. That unchecked power did not begin…
New College Cheating: Why Not Buy One’s College Degree Instead?
A great read by George Leef at the William Pope Center on how lazy college students are trying to cheat to get a college degree: A host of websites now lure in students who are…
Why did the Department of Education Give ITT Tech the Death Penalty?
George Leef at the Pope Center said the following about the Department of Education’s overreach in their sanctions of ITT Tech, a longtime vocational school: On September 6, ITT announced that it was closing its…
Hillary Clinton’s College Plan Makes the Wrong Assumptions
George Leef at Forbes makes the case of why the Clinton campaign is misunderstanding the issues with higher education at colleges: The key objective of Clinton’s plan is to get more Americans into college, especially…
Op-Ed: No, Hillary Clinton Can’t Save College
George Leef said the following about Hillary Clinton supporters advocating that she will ‘fix college’: The key objective of Clinton’s plan is to get more Americans into college, especially those from lower income families, and…
Debunking the “College Professors Work Too Much” Argument
Our friend George Leef debunks the college professor narrative that they work too much: The argument that the typical college professor is overworked, incidentally, runs contrary to what many others say. David C. Levy, a…
How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise
From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find jobs that don’t call for college education. As the number of Americans holding college credentials…