A plethora of myths surround the causes of skyrocketing tuitions, crushing student-loan debt, and declining academic standards. College students, parents, and taxpayers must get beyond these myths to become better informed consumers of higher education.
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...