On January 31, the Texas Senate’s State Affairs Committee will travel to Texas State University in San Marcos to hold a hearing to “ascertain any restrictions on Freedom of Speech rights that Texas students face in expressing their views on campus.” This coming event did not occur in a vacuum. Over the past few...
The Trump administration’s higher education budget would eliminate the loan-interest waiver given to college borrowers. Ending the subsidy, it is argued, would reduce tuition inflation: A Federal Reserve study finds that subsidized interest hikes tuition. Between 1985 and 2011, average tuition nationwide increased 498 percent—more than four times the rate of general inflation (114 percent) as measured...
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College and even high school football players are following cues from the NFL and “taking the knee” in protest during the pre-game national anthem. We should view this as a unique moment in our nation’s history—American students, at all levels, are more engaged than ever on the questions that drove our founders to declare independence. But...
Roughly 3,000 American colleges and universities periodically undergo what is called the accreditation process, which is meant to certify their academic quality as determined by one of seven regional accreditors operating in six geographic regions. Since 1952, accreditation by a federally recognized accreditor has been required for a school to qualify to receive student aid funds....
Over the past decade, a growing chorus of students, parents, and state legislators have urged tuition reductions or freezes on their public colleges and universities. To this request, defenders of the higher education status quo have rejoined that freezes will materially undermine their universities’ ability to provide an excellent education for their students. For...
Although the public’s faith in traditional, brick and mortar higher education is dwindling, college tuition prices keep rising. A Pew Research Center national pollfound that 57 percent of prospective college students believe that a college degree no longer offers a value commensurate with the price of tuition and fees. The same poll revealed that 75...
When Colin Kaepernick took a knee last fall during the singing of the National Anthem, it sparked an intense debate over race-based police brutality. Since then, some have defended Kaepernick by arguing that, in addition to the police brutality issue, the National Anthem is racist. This defense then escalated into a larger conflict over the status of ...
History suggests that, when citizens come to deeply distrust their country’s institutions, the cancer of political degeneration may be taking hold. In America, cynicism appears to have metastasized to such an extent that it is now afflicting high schools. At least that’s the conclusion suggested by Jessica Contrera’s recent Washington Post piece. Contrera reports that, in...