Student Loan debt
I’m bored: Let's go to war with Russia
Peter, Paul and Mary, the iconic folk singers from the 1960s, sang several songs protesting the war in Vietnam. “Where...
Things fall apart: American civilization is collapsing and it's time to start paying arrention
“Things fall apart," William Butler Yeats wrote in "The Second Coming," perhaps his most famous poem."The center cannot hold.” Like...
Racially segregated college graduation ceremonies: Are we nuts?
In one of its early school desegregation decisions, the United States Supreme Court expressed the hope that the day would...
Who dismantled our baloney meters? Biological males excel in women’s collegiate sports
J. Budziszewski, a natural law scholar at the University of Texas, wrote a book titled Written on the Heart, in...
Reality sucks in flyover country
I don’t give a shit about the media elites, the coastal elites, the influencers, the financial moguls, and the assholes,...
Turning adults into infants: Going to college in the era of wokeness
Early this month, Students at American University petitioned college leaders to place Narcan--an antidote for drug overdoses--in university dormitories. Why?...
Three quarters of a million student borrowers have filed "borrower defense" claims against colleges: They want their student loans canceled
Dahn Shaulis posted a provocative commentary yesterday on Higher Education Inquirer. He reported on the recent settlement of Sweet v....
Biden Administration's Proposed Income-Driven Repayment Plan for Student Debtors is a Disaster
Everything Everywhere, All at Once. That's a good description of the Department of Education's handling of the federal student-loan program....
Young professors should think about their retirement before taking their first job
The academic job market is terrible right now--especially for people with newly minted PhDs in the humanities or social sciences....
Are we out of our minds? LSU's women's basketball coach makes $2.5 million and has 171 pairs of shoes
General Motors found a cash cow when it created GMAC, its lucrative auto financing arm. People said that GM evolved...
What happens to young people who go to college without basic reading and writing skills? It's not good
The Baton Rouge Advocate published an editorial a few days ago titled "Get ahead in colleges like LSU, without all...
Robert Kelchen Calcuates Debt-to-Earnings Ratio For 45,000 Post-Secondary Programs: A Treasure Trove of Data
As Education Secretary Miguel Cardona observed recently, college graduates, on average, make about one million dollars more over their working...
