Commentary For decades, parents have sacrificed and students have gone into debt to fund college degrees that lead nowhere. But the college scam may be up soon—not thanks to any moral awakening on the part of college administrators. Instead, a tight job market is motivating more employers, including Google, IBM, and some state governments, to…

Commentary President Joe Biden’s $400 billion 2022 election bribe—also known as student loan forgiveness—has been now stopped in its tracks on two fronts. First, in Texas, federal district court Judge Mark Pittman, one of nearly 300 federal judges appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled the initiative unconstitutional. The judge rejected Biden’s claim that the…

Commentary Democratic politicians and their media toadies are warning that the Supreme Court is poised to rule against the use of racial preferences in college admissions, putting diversity on college campuses at risk. Don’t buy their alarmist rhetoric. Campus diversity is a scam. On Oct. 31, the Court will hear oral argument in Students for…

Commentary The United States continues to see a dramatic decline in the number of students attending college, with 1 million fewer students now enrolled since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans’ perception of higher education has also changed considerably. The share of U.S. adults who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country…

Commentary To the extent he thinks about it, Joe Biden is probably expecting to be canonized by millennials whose student-loan debt he’s paring down. Depending on how the question is asked, though, the move is not popular. In a Trafalgar Group poll released on Sept. 12, more than half of likely voters—55.6 percent—and 64.6 percent…

Commentary  On Aug. 24, President Joe Biden announced he would forgive up to $10,000 of federal student debt and up to $20,000 of Pell Grants. The president’s student loan forgiveness dodges real issues that need to be addressed: the issue of ongoing college tuition increases while the American higher education system simultaneously continues to be…

Commentary With the Biden administration’s announcement this week that it would continue the moratorium on student loan payments through the beginning of next year and will forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per student, student loan forgiveness is at the top of the current political agenda. Meanwhile, there’s little talk about bringing the cost of…

Australia’s universities should provide partial fee compensation for students because they didn’t deliver the study experience, as they promised during the pandemic, according to Australia’s shadow minister for education. Shadow Minister for Education Alan Tudge, who is the federal member for Victoria’s seat of Aston, said on Wednesday that universities need to make an “extra…

Commentary Bari Weiss, late of The New York Times opinion pages, was catapulted to celebrity when her letter of resignation from the NY Times went viral in 2020. In that letter, Weiss chronicled the process of her disillusionment with a newspaper that had jettisoned journalism—the patient uncovering and articulation of facts—for a brittle, frenetic embrace of “an orthodoxy already known to…

The rising cost of tuition fees is one of the primary causes of the soaring education inflation rate, two former vice-chancellors argue. The comments come after the latest consumer price index from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals education is the largest single contributor to inflationary growth in the March quarter of 2022, with…