EduBubble

I don’t want to come off saying that poor students don’t need more help in paying tuition because they do. But there are hundreds of programs directed at them already and very few devoted to the middle class, a group that traditionally attends college more frequently. I hate to be cynical, but it grows tiresome [...]

While the United States stands transfixed of her new president, the people in Canada are fixating on the high debt lumped on the back of their students. At least, I’m guessing this from the news stories in the Calgary Herald, ChronicleMetro, the Telegram, and the Silhouette, just to pick a few. Some of the proposals include turning half of [...]

We poked around our log files and found out that the search term “college industrial complex” brought people here more often than any other search term. So we’ll be talking about the college industrial complex more here because when it comes to college, an industrial complex seems like an apt modifier.

Sigh. Do you notice those tables with credit card applications in the student union? How much do they pay to be there? According to this very well-done piece in the NY Times, it may be several millions of dollars: The alumni association of the University of Michigan is guaranteed $25.5 million over the term of [...]