Testimony presented by the Foundation’s Director of Research before the Senate Education Committee on April 22, 2004, and the Committee of the Whole on the Senate Floor on May 10, 2004.
Higher Education
Colleges Are At Risk Of Closing. Good.
“You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy” is an increasingly fitting description of the American college graduate. While that World Economic Forum slogan is rightly mocked for its managerial creepiness, jokes aside, the average student nowadays is surely more nihilistic about the world than previous generations. The economic bargain of college, however, is looking increasingly...
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