Some students actually pay them back.
Topic: student loans
Whose Got More Skin In Academic Game?
Right now, parents and taxpayers are getting skinned off of defaulted student loans and rising tuition.
Committee Chair Seeks To Overhaul Federal Aid
U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, is seeking to overhaul America’s cumbersome system of federal aid to education. She is one of the backers of the PROSPER Act now making its way through Congress. “College…
How About “America First” for College Admissions?
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American…
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…
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…
Two Ex-College Presidents Deny There is a Student Loan Crisis
From Campus Reform: Two former college presidents are fighting the “myth” of college debt and its alleged solution of free tuition, placing the blame on the student dropout rate instead. Dr. William G. Bowen and…
Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion
Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial stability or common sense. This from Reason: Clinton is doing more of the same here,…
Big Ten Universities Require Diversity and Cultural Courses as Student Debt Balloons
Diversity and culture courses are more important than financial literacy and slowing down student debts in Big Ten schools.
College Student Upset at Large Student Loans, but Criticizes Diversity Instead
True story; the student blasts the lack of diversity at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California more than the student loans issue.
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Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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