A CCAP study offers three critical refinements to the theory that federal financial aid contributes to tuition increases

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Colleges and universities hire, pay, and promote faculty in part based on research. But is some of the humanities research worth the investment?

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CCAP estimates of the distribution of education in the U.S. indicate that educational inequality fell between 1950 and 2009.

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CCAP identified 25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College.

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For the second year in a row, Williams College in Massachusetts tops the Forbes/CCAP list of best undergraduate colleges in America.

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Recent News

  • Michael Rosen, in a review of Andrew Ferguson's book on higher education, Crazy U, for AEI's The American, identified Richard Vedder as the "foremost national expert on college tuition."
  • Richard Vedder pointed out in an opinion-editorial for Businessweek that college is not for everyone on purely economic grounds despite the large college earnings premium on average.
  • Daniel Bennett commented upon recent research on the for-profit higher ed sector in a piece for Career College Central. Bennett discussed what the research reveals to be the strengths and weaknesses of the sector as a whole.

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On May 10, 2012 Richard Vedder gave a lecture on rising student loan debts and the role federal policy plays in increasing college costs at an event held at Hillsdale College's Kirby Center in Washington, DC.