One can only hope that the evidence provided by Campos, Ginsberg, and others will drive a stake through the heart of the 'funding-cuts-made-us-raise-tuitions' myth. But don’t count on that happening just yet.
Until our academic culture embraces again what is truly higher in higher education—our capacity to discover Truth—expect still more exoduses from the liberal arts, regardless of how much attention STEM studies receive.
"Testimony: Bringing States Together to Protect the Border" contains Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Dr. Tom Lindsay's testimony before the Senate Committee on State Affairs in support of Senate Bill 1252.
"Testimony: Ensuring State Oversight of Federal Funds" contains Center for Tenth Amendment Action Director Dr. Tom Lindsay's testimony before the House Select Committee on budget transparency and reform in support of House Bill 86.
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Despite the CPP's destructive impact on the Lone Star State, it is unclear whether the "No SIP" bill will pass this session. Some here, although they oppose the Clean Power Plan and federal overreach generally, believe the best strategy is to wait and see.
Can the college student-loan debt crisis get any worse? According to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the answer is, “Yes, and it already has.”
As Texas, the nation’s second largest state, moves through its biennial legislative session, a simple, short transparency bill has been proposed in both houses that would lift the veil hiding a little-known but nonetheless devastating crisis in higher education—grade inflation.
Across the country, state legislators have introduced over 200 measures aiming to prevent the enforcement of federal laws and regulations they believe to be unconstitutional. Here in Texas, 25 such measures have been filed.
A 'more efficient' higher education system would be met with great applause by the students, their parents, and the taxpayers who help fund public higher education, as evidenced by a Pew Research Center national study, which finds that 57 percent of prospective students believe a college education today costs more than it is worth.
The foreboding bottom line is this: “America’s universities now have “more full-time employees devoted to administration than to instruction, research and service combined.”
This commentary originally appeared in Forbes on January 13, 2015. A new book by Frank Mussano, former dean of York College of Pennsylvania,and Robert V. Iosue takes on the crisis of tuition hyperinflation. The book’s title conveys its conclusion: College Tuition: Four Decades of Financial Deception. Summarizing their work in a recent article, Mussano and Iosue argue that...