college

I know, I know, every time I get onto the Zoom Doom thing with the Chronicle for Higher Education, the entire experience is dirty beyong dirty. Today, it was more bizarro people yammering about “talent search challenges for getting people to go into higher education.” Three women went into their experiences recruiting and screening potential […]

Libertarian Institute, November 28, 2022 College Graduates Are the New Favored Class of Democratic Largesse by Jim Bovard When Americans make lists of the persecuted, downtrodden groups in our society, college graduates rarely top the ranking. But President Joe Biden is offering one bribe after another to convert college graduates into perpetual dependents of the […]
The post College Graduates Are the New Favored Class of Democratic Largesse appeared first on James Bovard.

Canceling student debt may cause higher tuition in the future, encourage more borrowing and create expectations of future debt forgiveness. Everyone will pay for this in the form or higher inflation or higher taxes or lower benefits in the future.

Is College Worthwhile? A Two-Time Dropout’s Take by James Bovard President Biden is tub-thumping for Congress to create new federal handouts to make college free for the vast majority of students. But as Ryan McMaken and other commentators on mises.org have pointed out, college is vastly overpriced and overrated nowadays. My view on college stems […]
The post Is College Worthwhile? A Two-Time Dropout’s Take appeared first on James Bovard.

The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal sponsored a debate between myself and four of the leading academic activists on food insecurity among college students. Here is a list of those experts; my piece is reposted below.
Sara Goldrick-Rab is Professor of Higher Education Policy & Sociology at Temple University, and Founding Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice in Philadelphia.

It is unclear how the new grant restrictions will be enforced, prompting concern from critics that research grants could be stripped from schools that oppose the views and goals of the federal government and the grant-giving agencies, and that research will be micromanaged.

US student loan debt stands at $1.5 trillion and cannot be erased through bankruptcy. The youth of America are captives to colleges and universities that hold a monopoly over credentials. A hundred schools have endowments worth over a billion dollars.

The truth is this: outside of government-backed cartels like law, academia, and medicine, no company has ever actually required a degree. (FEE Op-ed) — Google, IBM, and Apple have stopped listing college degree requirements on their job descriptions, but everyone is missing the point when they say that this is some revolutionary, bold new direction in hiring. It’s not. You Never […]

There is a multi-million dollar diversity bureaucracy on most college campuses that indoctrinates students from the moment they arrive to believe that whiteness is a source of evil in the world. Most people have no idea that government-funded colleges have become race-hate factories. [...]

Big show tonight, returning guests Jim Goad and Jay Dyer air their thoughts on Host Al provides commentary on politics, culture, news, and events. This show is fun as hell. Be sure to subscribe to the channel because there are surprise streams throughout the week!