The College-Graduate Glut: Evidence From Labor Markets
The price system works marvelously to allocate resources in our society, but in higher education, prices often do not reflect the true value society places on resource usage, as they are often distorted by a variety of policies. The price of Meditation Power – Acoustic Brainwave Activation elite colleges, for example, is actually well below [...]
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The Future of Online Learning in Higher Ed
A couple of weeks back, NPR’s “All Things Considered” had a segment on the “explosion” of online learning and the implications this will have going forward for hig cialis sale her education. NPR’s Steve Henn, I thought anyway, had an insightful comment about the risk an online learning model would allow someone who is nothing [...]
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CCAP in the News
In a op-ed for Businessweek, Richard Vedder makes the case that just because there is a significant and large college earnings premium, on average, buy propecia no prescription that does not mean that for everyone going to college is the correct course of action, at least on “purely economic grounds.” As he argues in the [...]
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The Bane of a Residential College
I was somewhat bemused by this comment on MITx (the free and open-access online course offerings that MIT is now making available to tens of thousands around the world) made by the chair of faculty of MIT, Samuel Allen, in a piece he wrote for the MIT Faculty Newsletter. Allen sees the critical issues regarding [...]
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Daily reCCAP: 01/26/12
Alan Jacobs For a long time now, universities have flourished by offering a bundled package of knowledge and credentialing. People attended university in order to learn stuff that they couldn’t learn elsewhere — because the experts weren’t elsewhere — and to be certified by those experts as having actually learned said stuff. The bundle has [...]
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Daily reCCAP: 10/27/11
MICHAEL ELLSBERG our current classrooms, geared toward tests on narrowly defined academic subjects, stifle creativity. If a young person happens to retain enough creative spirit to start a business upon graduation, she does so in spite of her schooling, not because of it… the focus on higher education as the only path to stable employment [...]
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Publications
Featured Toward Strengthening Texas Public Higher Education: 10 Areas of Reform by Thomas K. Lindsay (with contributions from Richard Vedder, Richard Bishirjian, and Harry Stille) 12 Inconvenient Truths About American Higher Education by Richard Vedder An Analysis of the University of Nebraska System by Richard Vedder, Jonathan Robe, and Christopher Denhart Accreditation The Inmates Running [...]
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Press Releases
08/18/2011 New Study on Educational Inequality Washington, DC – New research from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) utilizes educational attainment data to develop historical measures of inequality in the distribution of education in the United States. The analysis examines this educational inequality by age group and sex between 1950 and 2009. This [...]
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Commentary
Featured How Poor Students Subsidize Unworthy College Sports by Richard Vedder | Bloomberg | June 17, 2013 Did You Graduate in Four Years? Congratulations by Richard Vedder | Bloomberg | May 21, 2013 College Sports is Heading for a Fall by Richard Vedder | Inside Higher Ed | May 21, 2013 Accountability Why So Much Lying on Campus? [...]
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Links for 8/2/10
Jeffrey R. Young Every semester a lot of professors’ lectures are essentially reruns because many instructors are too busy to upgrade their classroom methods. That frustrates Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard University, who argues that clinging to outdated teaching practices amounts to educational malpractice. “If you were going to see a [...]
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