Before following Oregon’s example, states should take a second look at the impact on student academic success, mental wellbeing, and skill development.

As the environment for universities worsens financially and in other ways, the job of being a college president is getting tougher.

The Department of Education updated a key funding program for career and technical education, but educators should recognize its value even without federal support.

In many cases, the residential nature of college is key to most of the collegiate contribution to student success.

There were a fair number of “bad actors” in for-profit higher education, but the same thing can be said of many public universities, which were exempt from such regulation.

Student debt cancellation is already suspect because it redistributes wealth upward. It also changes people’s incentives for the worse.

As college expenses become bigger, the case for purchasing insurance has grown.

Too Much of a Good Thing?

By working with educators to shape classes and degree programs to teach the skills they value, employers could build the workforce they need, often from within their existing labor force.

Increasingly, kids look at colleges as sort of a sophisticated form of vocational education that once was a staple of many high schools.

We need to change the incentive system, making schools face financial consequences for accepting students with shaky academic backgrounds who are unlikely to complete college.

To make themselves more attractive, colleges need to become leaner, cheaper, and more relevant.