Archive: Richard Vedder
Admissions Lawsuit: Harvard’s Ahead, but It’s Not Over
The Harvard lawsuit could go either way but the battle is not confined to one front.
Why Are There So Many Marginally Employed PhDs in English?
The biggest problem is that schools keep taking big new Ph.D. classes despite the limited demand for those occupations.
The New Campus Housing Bubble
A concerning number of student housing mortgages are either delinquent or approaching delinquency.
College Sports: Students Be Damned
Students took precisely the opposite position of the NCAA on almost all relevant issues.
Intellectual Gerrymandering: ‘E Unum Pluribus’ on Campus
Merit and individual accomplishment are downplayed, group identity emphasized.
The University of Texas Belatedly Helps Poor Kids
The UT Board of Regents has approved a plan reducing tuition to zero for all in-state undergraduate students from families making under $65,000 annually.
Majors Matter
Education matters, but the type of education also matters, maybe even more.
Colleges Don’t Want ‘Free College’
Free college proposals are a threat to the gravy train that has led to the inefficient and overstaffed modern university.
Who Needs Harvard? Amazon University and Other Options
We need to find cheaper, better ways of certifying competence, both in identifying the best future workers, but also in training them for specific tasks.
Coding Academies and the Future of Higher Education
Unlike in traditional higher education, the student’s interests are very closely aligned with that of the school.
Universities as Rip-Offs: The Costly and Inefficient Edifice Complex
Outrageous expenditures are commonplace for campus buildings, we will let a somewhat decrepit classroom building deteriorate so we can fund the academic fad de jour.
Would You Buy a Used Car from a College President?
As the environment for universities worsens financially and in other ways, the job of being a college president is getting tougher.