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"By the way, government subsidies have impacted upon rising tuition costs. It's a conundrum here."
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It would be silly to expect the free market to fix higher ed's problems, because there is currently no free market in higher education, argued Jeff Selingo of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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William McMahon, a student at the University of Missouri, wrote a column for The College Conservative arguing that President Obama is wrong to force high school students to stay in school until they are legal adults.
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In the wake of the scandal surrounding false reporting of SAT scores at Claremont McKenna College, the finance magazine Kiplinger has removed the college from its 2011-2012 "Best Values in Private Colleges" list. “Claremont McKenna College unfairly earned its place as 18th-ranked private liberal arts college in our college rankings by reporting inflated SAT scores,” a statement atop Kiplinger’s “Best Values” list said. “We have dropped the college from our 2011-12 rankings..." More
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Clint Townsend, a campus coordinator for Students for Liberty, has written an op-ed in today's Star-Telegram arguing that although the good doctor has little chance of capturing the Republican presidential nomination, his views are slowly creeping into the mainstream of political thought.
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In an all-too predictable bit of news from the Washington Post: A Yale University spokesman said the School of Public Health is reviewing its decision to have Brinker speak at this year’s commencement. The District-based American Association of University Women, a national women’s advocacy group with 1,000 branches across the country, said Thursday that it would no longer collaborate with Komen... More