Higher Education

Migration Enforcement Agency Discourages Funds for Its Own Work

David North
January 2, 2013

In this Backgrounder & Report, David North writes that would-be Wall Street bomber Quazi Mohammed Nafis had a student visa, as did Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad

National Louis' Move to Part-time Profs Provokes Possible Censure

Ron Grossman
June 13, 2013

National Louis University is firing tenured professors and hiring part-time instructors.  This act is similar to what many universities are doing across the U.S.

How Much Ivory Does This Tower Need? What We Spend on, and Get from, Higher Education

Neal McCluskey
October 27, 2011

In this Policy Analysis, McCluskey challenges the oft held opinion that the American Ivory Tower is strapped for cash and taxpayers are to blame.

Federal Higher Education Policy and the Profitable Nonprofits

Vance Fried
June 15, 2011

In this Policy Analysis, Vance Fried states that undergraduate education is a highly profitable business for nonprofit colleges and universities.

Keep eye on Mitch Daniels at Purdue

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Keep eye on Mitch Daniels at Purdue

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College Cuts Impact More than Students

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August 15, 2012
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A recent AJC article on state cuts to higher ed largely ignores impacts beyond

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Public colleges and universities are remarkably poor at providing students and taxpayers transparent, objective measures of their worth even as tuition has grown three times the rate of inflation i

June 30, 2012

Western Governors University is pioneering a new, fast-growing model of education: Competency-based learning.

April 14, 2012

On the first day of class last fall, I asked my college students to spend ten minutes writing a brief essay explaining their definition of the American Dream and what they expected the federal

Jack Chambless
April 07, 2012
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