Tax U
A little while ago, Eric Kelderman had a story in the Chronicle that is, if not surprising to some, surely is distressing: Thirty-four colleges audited recently by the Internal Revenue Service underpaid their taxes on unrelated business income by nearly $90-million, and nearly 20 percent of the private colleges in the group violated rules for nonprofit [...]
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The University of Texas and Texas A&M Should Privatize
By: Ronald L. Trowbridge and Richard Vedder State political control could be avoided altogether For the past year and a half an unrelenting firestorm of criticism has been directed at Texas Governor Rick Perry and his appointed regents cialis in uk for allegedly damaging, in a political scuffle for control, the excellence of the University [...]
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Princeton and Urbana Universities: A Tale of Two Schools
I am writing this missive from the campus of Urbana University, a liberal-arts college founded in 1850 that serves an audience of generally first-generation students mostly from nearby its Urbana, Ohio campus. A goodly proportion of those enrolled (41 percent of first-year students) are on Pell Grants. I find the students vastly different than those [...]
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Are State Universities Being Privatized?
One can build a good case that the private sector is under attack in America—in the past five years, iconic American corporations like General Motors and AIG were essentially nationalized. Financial institutions have been strangled by burdensome new regulations. Businesses feel that the Obama Administration’s “soak the rich” and anti-Wall Street populist rhetoric mean that [...]
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The Kentucky Advantage
When one thinks of geographic concentrations of greatness in American higher education, one probably starts with Massachusetts, which is probably the home to more top-flight elite private schools per square mile than any other state. After all, in a relatively small area are located the likes of such great universities as Harvard, MIT, Boston University, [...]
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Mark Taylor, ‘Crisis on Campus’
Book Review: Taylor, Mark C. Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities. Knopf, 1st edition (August 31, 2010) 256 pp., $23. ISBN-13: 978-0307593290. Renovating the Ivory Tower July 29, 2011 By Danko Tarabar Download the entire review (pdf, 4 pp.) A S A COLLEGE SENIOR, I know that Mark Taylor [...]
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Teaching Loads and Affordability: The University of Texas Data
A recently released Pew/Chronicle survey of American attitudes towards colleges shows that 75 percent disagree with the proposition that “college costs…are such that most people can afford to pay for a college degree.” A majority (57 percent) think that college these days is either “only fair” or ‘”poor” as a value. In that light, more [...]
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Links for 3/31/11
Vance Fried colleges are like poor little rich kids fixated upon their wealth. Although rich, they constantly complain about not having enough money to cover their needs. Although rich, they constantly try to get more money out of their students and society at large… In the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (a college professor) addressed [...]
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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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Audio
04/15/13: WOSU’s “All Sides with Ann Fisher” hosted Richard Vedder for a discussion on college completion rates. Listen. 04/01/13: WIOD 610AM (South Florida) interviewed Richard Vedder about tuition rates in Florida. Listen. 03/26/13: The Jason Lewis Show in Minneapolis interviewed Richard Vedder. Listen. 03/25/13: Richard Vedder spoke on a panel hosted by a Colgate University alumni [...]
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