Where’s All the Money Going?
By Andrew Gillen, Matthew Denhart, and Jonathan Robe As they defend tuition increases to irate students and parents, college and university leaders often argue that tuition does not cover their costs...
View ArticleFor-Profit v. Non-Profit Colleges–Which Use More Federal Cash?
Are for-profit colleges and universities getting a raw deal from the government compared to their more elitist peers in the private non-profit sector of American higher education? Vance H. Fried,...
View ArticleAverage Taxpayers Are Heavily Supporting Elite Colleges
An elephant in the room that universities avoid is how their system is rigged to serve the rich over the poor. An October study by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) entitled “Cheap for Whom?”...
View ArticleHow Federal Aid Drives Up College Tuition
At Bloomberg News, Virginia Postrel writes about how federal subsidies intended to make college more affordable have instead encouraged rapidly rising tuitions, in a column entitled, “U.S. Universities...
View ArticleMore College Aid for Low-Income Families, Please
When individuals seek higher education, why should all of us have to pay? After all, individuals decide whether to seek a college degree based on their own calculations of expected costs and benefits....
View ArticleWhy They Seem to Rise Together:Federal Aid and College Tuition
It’s called “the Bennett Hypothesis,” and it explains–or tries to explain–why the cost of college lies so tantalizingly out of reach for so many. In 1987, then Secretary of Education William J. Bennett...
View ArticleStudent VoicesRyan’s Plan is Good for Higher Ed
Now that Paul Ryan has joined the Republican ticket, it’s worth considering how his much-discussed budget changes higher education. Ryan wants to cap the maximum amount of Pell Grant awards at the...
View ArticleWesleyan Abandons Need-Blind Admissions
The vast majority of American colleges and universities make admission decisions without considering the financial need of applicants. Only a handful of private institutions admit their entire...
View ArticleThree Things Colleges Don’t Want Us to Know
Universities are in the knowledge business, and the creation and dissemination of it is at the very core of what colleges do. Yet some forms of knowledge about higher education itself are either...
View ArticleThree Pell Grant Scams
Many politicians, including senators such as Tom Harkin and Dick Durbin, have grown indignant over the allegedly vast amounts of higher education money captured by for-profit institutions via the Pell...
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