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At Walmart, hundreds of corporate roles no longer require a college degree.
Published: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:28 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Former Treasury Secretary and National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers warned on Monday that a plan from President Joe Biden to cancel thousands of dollars in student loans per borrower could worsen runaway college tuition costs.
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 2:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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All is not well on higher education's financial front. At many colleges, tuition prices have reached record highs, enrollment is stagnant, revenues have flattened or declined, budgets are constricted, and regulatory compliance costs are skyrocketing
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A federal bill that would require colleges and universities to provide applicants information about the costs and returns of higher education was approved on Monday by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Could it be that Higher Education's big problem is the use of the word "Higher".
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:38 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Do you wonder why political adversaries seem so often to talk past each other rather than produce useful debate on important issues? One reason is that, in many cases, they really aren't talking about the same things.
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 4:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Paying for college is not like paying for other goods and services. The eventual customers, college students, may not always feel the impact of rising college costs. Instead, parents and taxpayers often subsidize much of students' tuition.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 4:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The six departments and schools that comprise East Carolina University's College of Human Ecology will soon migrate to other colleges under a reorganization plan intended to reduce costs and strengthen resources.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 10:30 pm
By: ECU News Services
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There is a proposition in public choice economics called the "special interest effect." It basically argues that government grows because, for most government programs, there are concentrated beneficiaries and diffused cost bearers.
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many college leaders speak as though the upward cost spiral is permanent and unavoidable. From experience, I can say that's not true.
Published: Friday, November 21st, 2014 @ 8:44 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The September issue of Money (a Time, Inc. publication) featured an article titled "Busting the 5 Myths of College Costs" by Penelope Wang. It claimed that many of the assumptions that parents hold on how to reduce the cost of college are outdated or wrong. Wang promised to give the...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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For decades, rising college tuition rates have been almost as reliable a feature of American life as death and taxes. A substantial part of the increase has underwritten student aid, often in the form of merit scholarships.
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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