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The Five-Year Party has been in print for three and a half months now and is getting a lot of attention. So far, the responses from readers either to me personally or on various postings and Amazon reviews fall into three categories. 1. The author doesn’t have a Ph.D so he has no right to comment on . . . → Read More: What if parents want party schools for their kids? In the building where my office is located in Keene, NH, there is a small beauty school, where young women attend to prepare for careers as beauticians, hairstylists and barbers. During the summer I had lunch with some of them out on the picnic table and they told me about their lives. In many ways they were . . . → Read More: Should we be sending more students to beauty school? Perhaps no story about what’s wrong with American higher education is more poignant than that of Sam Fanning of Eastern Michigan University. After receiving his bachelor diploma from the college in December, he went to work as a janitor at his alma mater. The bottom line is this: He owes $35,000 in student loans and his payments . . . → Read More: Armed with a diploma, he now cleans college toilets In a conference call with students earlier this week, President Barack Obama made it clear that he understands many of the issues I raised in my book. Each institution, he said, should publish a chart showing exactly where each dollar of tuition money is spent. He also said that tuition money is being wasted on “amenities” that . . . → Read More: Obama says colleges need to be transparent about use of tuition money When I was doing the research for my book I spent a lot of time tracking down the reasons for the crippling tuition increases that were driving graduates deeply into debt. I looked at reductions in aid from states and thousands of valueless perks like water parks and hot tubs that colleges added to attract students . . . → Read More: “Administrative bloat” leads to tuition increases In my brief ABC News interview earlier this week (which was then picked up by the Huffington Post) I briefly mentioned “no frills” colleges as an alternative to the high cost of higher education. Since I didn’t get a chance to elaborate, I’m using this space to explain. State universities were invented in the 1960s as . . . → Read More: ‘No frills’ colleges could cut tuition by 75 percent University business officers are meeting in San Francisco this week and listening to a presentation about how to cut millions of dollars from their payrolls: eliminate and consolidate administrative jobs. What a unique idea! For two decades colleges have been adding on administrative jobs like a snowball rolling downhill, adding bulk with every turn. Presidents add vice . . . → Read More: Cutting administration jobs could save colleges millions One of the foundations of college administators' attitudes about their students starts with the idea that they are "adults" and should therefore be free to make their own decisions without the influence of faculty, staff or safety officers. This is one of the foundations of the "student friendly" concept of college campuses. You can do whatever . . . → Read More: College students’ brains not fully mature until age 25 Mark Bauerlein, the Emory University English professor who wrote "The Dumbest Generation" is not the kind of guy to remain silent when party school emperors parade around with no clothes. He has shown over and over that he's not afraid to speak his mind when he finds college students who would rather party than learn how . . . → Read More: Higher ed critic quotes from “The Five Year Party” You have to feel sorry for Graham Spanier, president of America's top party school. When Princeton Review named his school at the top of the list, it created a lot of publicity, but not the kind colleges crave. Students looking for a great place to party flocked to the place and that was good for admissions, but . . . → Read More: Penn State, top party school, considers less student-centered policies |
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