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Like a beautiful but inattentive date, the Obama Administration's recent proposals to improve college affordability and completion mean well, but in a moment of passion end up calling you by the wrong name. Suffice it to say, the date does not lead to the desired...
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Adventures in Wonderland - Inside Higher Education
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Thirty years ago America was an economic basket case. The official unemployment rate in 1982 exceeded 10%, but apples-to-apples unemployment (counting it the way we do today) was over 16%. Inflation was north of 6% and the prime interest rate reached 21.5% in June...
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If my college experience was about any one thing in particular, it was an exploration of a decaying gothic parkland. Someone at some point had spent a lot of money on the place, but clearly not in the past 30 years. The buildings onto which the architects had originally poured sulfuric acid...
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As we arrive at the end of a challenging 2011, it comes as no surprise that the Oxford English Dictionary has chosen squeezed middle as word of the year. This phrase originated in the UK to describe the economic circumstances of ordinary people caught between stagnant...
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Recent headlines from higher education remind us that many public officials don't understand how for-profit universities can be trusted to provide a quality education because their sole motivation is to maximize profits. The fact that we rely on...
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University Ventures opinion piece published in Washington Post.
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From the Q&A session with First Lady Michelle Obama at a recent College Immersion Day for local high school students at Georgetown University: