Certain College Advertising Is OK
Barry Mills, the President of Bowdoin College, makes what to me is a slightly curious remark in the course of responding to a recent report on the college published by the National Association of Scholars. Mills takes issue with the NAS report’s characterization of the college’s curriculum (since I haven’t read the report myself, I [...]
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A Peripheral MOOC Experiment
It only now occurs to me that the rapid rise of massively open online courses (MOOCs) in the last year or so may allow us something of a natural experiment related to the incidence of the “profit motive” in education. Over recent decades (and particularly so over the past few years), there has been substantial [...]
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Bill Gates on Higher Ed Reform
I only now came across Bill Gates’ review (published a couple of weeks ago) of the blockbuster book, Academically Adrift. There were a few snippets from Gates which I thought are worth chewing over: Overall, the book depicts a culture in academia where undergraduate learning is only a peripheral concern; where the professors don’t want [...]
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Canary in the College?
While it may just be a matter of coincidental timing, the recent announcements in the last week of retrenchments at both Bridgepoint Education Inc. and Kaplan Education (two of the largest for-profit higher education institutions) may be an augur of what is to come for the for-profit sector, at least for the near future. Interestingly enough, it [...]
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Harnessing the Profit Motive to Transform Education
The Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) in London – one of the most prominent and influential think tanks in the world – recently released The Profit Motive in Education: Continuing the Revolution, a monograph consisting of eleven essays related to the role the private sector and profits in transforming the education ecosystem. The volume is edited [...]
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They Just Don’t Get It
Sen. Tom Harkin has issued his final report on for-profit higher education, a book-length indictment of one-tenth of American higher education, the for-profit sector. Obviously I have not had an opportunity yet to read the full report (I’ve been traveling for the past week or so), but from news reports alone, I see huge problems [...]
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CCAP in the News
Richard Vedder has an op-ed in the Kearney (Nebraska) Hub on college costs and the role of buy sildenafil administrative spending as a cost driver, particularly in the State of Nebraska: The share of college spending on administration has been growing for decades. Jay Greene, Brian Kisida and Jonathan Mills, in their recent report, “Administrative [...]
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Weekly reCCAP: 07/13/12
Libby A. Nelson At a roundtable convened by the Science Coalition, an organization of universities dedicated to preserving cialis online federal funding for basic research, and the Association of American Universities, the officers discussed the future of pure and applied research — and where the money will come from to pursue both. Paul Fain Public [...]
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CCAP in the News
Recently in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, CCAP Senior Fellow Ronald L. Trowbridge, discussed recent statistics showing that the Texas leg online viagra uk islature is neglecting its growing number of low-income and minority students in higher education poligy A study by the American Enterprise Institute reveals class warfare. Published in October 2011, the study, “Cheap [...]
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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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