While Democrats advocate left-wing policies such as tuition and fee free public college and mass student debt cancellation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a plan that will help students and their families finance higher education…
Topic: student loans
AOC Likens One Argument Against Student Loan Forgiveness To ‘Hazing Mentality’
The idea that a student loan forgiveness program would be unfair because some people have already paid off their student debt and some chose to attend a less costly school represents a sort of “hazing…
Here Are Some College-Related Bills Recently Proposed In Congress
Is American higher education going to pot? While the answer to that question would depend on who you ask, some recently introduced legislation actually pertains to college students convicted of possessing pot. On Friday Rep….
Good News On Student Loans
Some students actually pay them back.
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…
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University of Louisiana-Lafayette Updates Free Speech Policy after Criticism from Student Group
Virginia State University has Vague Wording of “Public Morals” in Handbook
China to Suspend Advanced Placement History Tests by 2020
Hollywood Criticizes Bowling Green State University for Changing Theater Building Name
Cal Poly Professor Created Attendance App by Using GPS Location Data
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Why Angela Davis Should Remember the Jonestown Massacre
Not that anyone should forget but the revolutionary radical turned credentialed academic has a special reason to remember the mass suicide/homicide that occurred 40 years ago in the country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.
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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