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
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Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow deserves high praise for finally going public with his concern about his binge drinking students. Apparently all it took was walking to his office at 3:3o in the afternoon and finding an unconscious student sprawled on his lawn before being taken to the hospital to have his stomach pumped. Pretty hard to ignore! But . . . → Read More: Tufts president thinks ‘face time’ will cure binge drinking An article this week in the New York Times spells out what I have been writing in this blog for two years now. We're sending too many unprepared and disengaged students to college for all the wrong reasons. You can read the article here: Plan B: Skip College. It wasn't that long ago that only the best . . . → Read More: Why send kids to college when most of them drop out? When they learn that their daughters are attending a sorority "formal" event, parents probably imagine ball gowns, corsages and escorts in tuxedos. They are not aware that times have changed as newspaper reports from Ohio found last week. What goes on at a sorority "formal" in the age of party schools? Public urination, public sex, leaving piles . . . → Read More: Sorority “formal” includes vandalism, theft and public urination Today's "student-friendly" party school classrooms permit students to misbehave in ways that would have led to expulsion a decade ago. Students sleep, eat their lunches, text on their cell phones, listen to their I-pods, engage in hour-long conversations with their friends and participate in other activities that send a clear message to the professor and their classmates: "I . . . → Read More: Misbehaving college students target women and younger professors A new study by two economists has found that the number of hours students spend studying each week declined by 10 hours between 1961 and 2003, but does not explain why that happened. Never fear, Tom Bartlett, one of the best writers for the Chronicle of Higher Education, offers his own suggestions here. Among the reasons . . . → Read More: Why don’t students study anymore? You may have read about the brave biology professor at Louisiana State University who dared to award low test scores for students who failed her tests, but you might not understand the reasons this happened. In case you missed it, you can read the USA Today story about this here. In party school culture, "retention" has become the primary . . . → Read More: At party schools, only brave teachers award low grades Readers of this blog should not be surprised that college administrators often get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. After all, their quarter-million-dollar salaries and free housing makes it hard for them to make ends meet. Besides they can always just jack up the tuition price whenever they need some extra cash. But Karen . . . → Read More: College president files fraudulent expense reports — for 10 years The news this week from the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual report is that the huge pay raises doled out to college presidents are beginning to level off — at least for now. Still, in an age where parents take out second mortgages and raid their retirement accounts to come up with tuition money, it's hard . . . → Read More: Are college presidents really worth their $436,000 paychecks? An editorial in today's New York Times notes that "disputes about financial management of college and universities have become increasingly commonplace," but it does not give a reason why this is happening. Readers of this blog, however, understand that during the 1990s colleges changed their primary mission from education to making money, a disastrous decision that . . . → Read More: Why higher education gets stuck with crooks like Harold Raveche |
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